Remember how you vowed after the last election that you’d be a better-prepared voter in 2018?

Now’s your chance to get smart — courtesy of our reporters, who worked tirelessly for the past two weeks to interview local candidates for office.

We came up with a raft of questions for 61 local office-seekers about how they would run their city or school district. Most responded — with thorough, thoughtful answers, no less — and we’ve packaged these Q&As into an easily searchable Spring Elections Page.

This handy tool, which went live Thursday and will be available through Election Day, allows you to virtually sit down with the candidates specific to your ballot and determine how opponents stack up. Our coverage focuses on the races for Wausau City Council, Village of Weston Board of Trustees, Marathon County Board of Supervisors and the Wausau School District.

Preparing for our interviews, we consulted with other hyper-local news sources and government watchdog groups, while gathering information from respected sources such as Strong Towns and the Better Government Association to come up with thought-provoking questions about the issues our local communities are facing. Then, we condensed our very long list list to a more manageable number, which was no easy task.

The questions vary depending on each race, but each candidate within an individual race was asked identical questions. Except in the race for Wausau City Council Dist. 10, where both candidates chose to answer questions by phone, all answers are listed in their entirety without editing, to give voters the broadest and most complete picture possible for each candidate.

Letters to the editor supporting candidates are still being accepted through Monday, April 2. Email [email protected] for publication. These, too, will be housed on our elections page.

Scroll through our elections page to read all the responses. City races have a blue header. County races are in red. The Wausau School Board and Weston have gray headers that are easily recognizable. Or, search for your district, race, or candidate by clicking on the magnifying glass in the right hand corner of the page and entering a name.

Learn where to vote here. Find a sample ballot, and see who is running in your district here.

For general election information, visit the Marathon County election information page.

And check our site on Tuesday, where we’ll announce results as they come in.

Good luck to all the candidates on Tuesday. And don’t forget to vote!