Wausau’s Independent is a weekly opinion column by former Wausau Alder Tom Kilian, a founding member of the grassroots environmental group Citizens for a Clean Wausau. Views expressed here are ...

The Wood County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board this week approved more than $13 million to support local mental health and substance use disorder services from July 1, 2025, ...

The Zepf Center is just one of the places watching those cuts, knowing that some of their most vulnerable patients may be affected Mental health issues can be some of the hardest issues to diagnose.

Kilian said. ‘So it can be assured that contamination isn’t migrating toward the drinking water wells?’” What happened at that time with testing the entire monitoring well network? Nothing, it seems.