New faces are a key storyline for the Rib Lake track and field program at the start of its 2023 spring season, but where there is experience there is optimism for a successful season. The new faces are especially prevalent for the girls, where more than half of the roster of 15 is new to the program. The boys roster of 17 has seven newcomers, but not all of them are freshmen. While it still won’t

Depth is always a factor when it comes to small-school track and field, and the Gilman Pirates are feeling it at the start of the 2023 season. But the old adage quality over quantity also applies for Gilman, especially for the girls. “We are small, but we have some real quality here and hope to build upon it,” head coach Mike Gingras said. Gingras, who begins his 10th year as head

The Gilman Pirates look to be wellrepresented once again at the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association’s All-Star Charity Football Games this summer. For the third straight year, two Pirates were selected to play in the eightplayer all-star game, which will take place on Friday, July 14 at 6 p.m. at Titan Stadium on the campus of UW-Oshkosh. This year’s Gilman representatives are linebacker

The recently-completed winter sports season at the college level included several Taylor County athletes competing in indoor track, wrestling, men’s basketball and women’s swimming. This week, we take a look at some of the notable performances from those athletes in wrestling and indoor track and field. Jake Rau, a 2020 Medford graduate, went 12-10 as a sophomore 197-pound wrestler for

The fifth annual Medford Basketball Classic is set for Saturday and Sunday at Medford Area Middle School and is expected to feature some of the top men’s basketball talent in the region. This year’s tournament again features 16 teams, who will each play two preliminary games Saturday morning into early afternoon with results determining the seeds for a single-elimination bracketed tournament

the real property lister should be the department head. “This is an employee driven idea. When employees come up with an idea that consolidates and makes it run more efficiently, I think they deserve the chance to make it work,” he said. He said the shift in the departments is a move that he said would help the county retain employees and if it was not done, he said they would likely lose employees.

Hello friends, For the first time since 1989, I am going to write to you over two separate weeks, two different ways of describing the same trip. I just returned from an ice fishing/ camping trip that was 2.8 miles from shore on Lake Superior on Chequamegon Bay out of Ashland. This week’s column will be the safe trip, next week’s will be survival at its best. Space does not allow both the same

(1,339) and 1,000 (1,068) career rebounds. She blocked 389 shots in her career and added 168 assists and 122 steals. Weir is one of 26 players to make the honorable mention list and the only one from the Eastern Cloverbelt to earn a Division 5 All-State honor from the WBCA. Conference Player of the Year Paris Opelt and Delaney Rochester of Neillsville got honorable mention in Division 4. The