Brian Wilson There are few things better than a well-thrown curling rock. You know it the moment it leaves your hand and watch it gracefully glide down the ice to land precisely where you wanted it to go. I threw my first rock of the season at the Medford Curling Club on Friday night in a shoot-out game between me and my son, Alex. The game followed a predictable course, I would lay

Student teacher Sarah Lundy is working with Rachel Mildbrand’s 4th grade class at Medford Area Elementary School to learn about persuasive writing. The students selected the topic of littering and submitted the following essays for publication: Littering By Kamiya Do you know how much of the Earth is filled with trash? Here are some reasons I think we should not litter. There are 5.25

Star News Editorials At precisely 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, the guns of World War I went silent. Historians estimate that as many as 22 million people died during the four years of the conflict with millions more injured or displaced. In 1938, 20 years after the end of the war, Congress declared the creation of a national Armistice Day to recognize and remember that conflict and to

Dear Fred, It has been a while since I have written to you there in the year 2120. At least it has been for me. For you it has likely been part of a long afternoon of reading through seemingly endless COVID-19-related stories. I figured that with the recent election, it would be some good human interest fodder for your 100-year anniversary retrospective on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacted

Star News Editorials Property owners along Chelsea Lake should use care in an attempt to play hardball with the Taylor County Board over the future of the dam and management of the lake’s water level. With an ever-increasing price tag and seemingly endless demands by property owners for the county to pick up most, if not all, the cost of raising the water level to historic high levels,