Share the road and save a life

Taylor County was a busy place last weekend. Major events included the Taylor County Fair, the Rumblefest Car Show, Lublin Days, and the Medford Lions Rubber Dusck Race on the Black River. Between live music, motorsports, parades, sporting events, rodeo action, car show, rides and food vendors there was plenty for residents and visitors to see and do around the region. These events, and othe...

The vandal is among the lowest of the low when it comes to nonviolent criminal behavior. The thief is easy to understand. They are motivated by want and greed, whether on the petty level of a shoplifter or on the corporate scale of embezzlers. Other crimes are driven by passion or to feed an addiction. Vandals, however, channel some basic level of reprehensible evil. Vandals see something ni...

Marathon County seems to just want any events in rural parts of the county to go away and never come back. The county has a nightmare of a permitting process for events in rural communities. The event permitting process requires groups to jump through hoops, fuels the power trips of paper-pushing bureaucrats, and creates a mountain of paperwork, all in the name of being prepared for any type of...