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Colby-Abby police are investigating the apparent suicide of an individual whose body was found on STH 13 in Colby on Sunday morning.

The Central Fire and EMS board set their 2025 budget to be approved by the individual municipalities at the most recent board meeting last Thursday. While overall budget saw a 2.8 percent increase in expenses, going from $699,400 budgeted for 2024 to $719,000 in 2025, the collective cost to the municipalities as a whole actually saw a drop going from around $325,000 to $294,000 in the budget for 2025.

The Thorp Courier

It was a tense meeting in the Thorp Elementary School Commons when the School District of Thorp’s Board of Education met for its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, August 21. The meeting was moved from its usual place to accommodate the large number of staff, parents and community members who chose to attend the meeting in the wake of recent resignations from District Administrator Angela Hanlin, board member Eric Werner and board of education president Marie Karaba. The district accepted the resignations during the closed session portion of last Wednesday’s meeting.

Students at the School District of Thorp will be returning to classrooms on Tuesday, September 3. But that isn’t the only thing returning to school, as the 2024-25 academic year also sees the return of the district’s robust before and after school learning programs. Those programs had been scheduled for the chopping block after the district’s proposed operation referendum failed to pass this spring. However, thanks to the hard work of recently departed district administrator Angie Hanlin, the School District of Thorp was selected to receive the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Grant Program. The CCLC grant program is worth $130,000 per year for five years.

The Oakbrook Health & Rehabilitation assisted living center commemorated five decades of committed service to the Thorp community with an afternoon of fun, food and live music on Wednesday, August 21.

Stanley Republican

Head Wastewater Operator Nicholas Martin and Eric Lynne of Donohue & Associates discussed a Water Quality Trading Plan for the Wastewater Treatment Facility’s WPDES phosphorus limits with the Stanley City Council at the August 19 regular meeting. Lynne described how, in collaboration with the city, they have been exploring the most effective ways to utilize city-owned parcels to create credits for the wastewater treatment plant. The Wastewater Treatment Facility needs improvements in order to comply with a notice of violation with high phosphorus discharges. Currently the Wastewater Treatment Facility has a 0.075 mg/L effluent total phosphorus concentration level and this discharge limit is proving very difficult if not impossible to maintain.