In the 87th Assembly District (Price, Rusk, Tayor) Judy Reas defeated J. Suzanne Murphy in the Democratic primary. Reas will now oppose the incumbent Mary Williams (R). This sets up a repeat contest from two years ago.
In the 73rd Assembly District (Douglas, Washburn, Burnett) Nick Milroy won the Democratic primary over three others and will face Independent Party candidate Jeffery Monaghan. There is no Republican Party candidate. This is the district which has been represented for years by Frank Boyle who has retired.
In the 74th Assembly District (Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer) the incumbent Gary Sherman won the Democratic primary and will face Shirl LaBarre in November. This is also a repeat of a contest two years ago.
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A Spooner Wal-Mart may be at a standstill, after the Washburn County Executive Committee announced that the company said the project was “in trouble” due to budget issues.
The committee met Monday, Sept. 8, in the Elliott Building, Shell Lake, to discuss the matter. Chair Micheal Bobin said four Wal-Mart representatives met with the county, city of Spooner and the Department of Transportation last week. Bobin said the representatives told those present that originally $2 million of infrastructure improvements for the Spooner project were slated. Now, he said, the company told him the costs have escalated, raising the total to around $4 million. If the cost can’t be brought back down to around $3 million, Bobin said, the store may not come to Spooner.
“They threatened to cancel the project,” Bobin said.
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