The induction ceremony for Richard Parks, the newest member of the Rib Lake School District Hall of Fame, will be held on Friday, January 27 at 1:30 pm in the Rib Lake High School Gymnasium. The public to join in honoring Parks, a 1979 graduate from Rib Lake High School. Parks is a lifelong educator who began his career in 1983 in the School District of Marathon as a mathematics teacher, baseball

BY ELIZABETH WILSON REPORTER It will cost city of Medford residents more to build or alter their homes under a proposal to increase permit fees for the first time since 2011. At the Medford Committee of the Whole and City Council meetings on January 23, 2023, Building Inspector Robert Christensen came to get Council’s approval for adjusting building fees for Medford to match those of other

Brian Wilson Deciding when and how much to trim from my beard has become something of a hairy question in the Wilson household. I have had a beard for the better part of the past 30 years. There have been a handful of situations, such as in support of a coworker who was going through chemotherapy, that I went beardless, but I quickly grew it back. This is primarily because my wife, Kim,