For the past year the Rib Lake School District has been working toward a proposal to address current and future needs of the district. School board members, administration, teachers and other staff have worked with engineers and architects to identify places in the district’s buildings that need to be addressed as well as identifying ways to improve the use of the school buildings to increase

A decades-long relationship to provide ambulance service to county residents is teetering on a knife’s edge over ongoing dissatisfaction with coverage in rural areas and spiraling labor costs. Taylor County stands at a crossroads when it comes to how to provide emergency medical services. Down one path there are those on the county board who would like to see the county take over complete operation

School starts this week. We all know what this means. We all know what we should be doing to keep ourselves and others safe on the roads. We all know we shouldn’t be fiddling with our phones or trying to navigate through 23 touch screens on our vehicle’s dashboard in order to turn up the radio when our favorite song comes on. We all know our hands belong on the steering wheel and our

Star News Editorials On a recent summer afternoon, the driver on a motorcycle was heading south on Hwy 13 in the city of Medford when a car turned in front of him to enter a parking lot. He ended up being airlifted with serious injuries. The driver of the vehicle told police she had not seen the motorcycle or driver before the collision. The story is not a unique one to this area. Across

Corliss Jensen left the world better than he found it. Of all the epitaphs for a man who was truly a giant in both the local community and in the legal profession in Wisconsin, there is perhaps no better one than that. Corliss Jensen died Sunday morning. He was 98 years old. In a 2015 article Jensen quoted his former law partner Frank Nikolay, “You know I have retired when you see the