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It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...

Budgets season is the most wonderful time of the year. I feel the need to put an asterisk next to that statement. In an absolute sense, it is perhaps as only wonderful, to a very select group of people. OK, that group of people might also entirely overlap with who looks back at me when I stare dead-eyed into my bathroom mirror each morning. Still, since this is my column, I feel comfortable ...

“There is just never anything going on and nothing to do in this county.” In between covering events going on this weekend, I volunteered some shifts with the Medford Kiwanis Club to drive a golf cart around the Taylor County Fairgrounds to shuttle people who needed rides. One of our stops was by the food vendor area between the Merchant and Co-op buildings at the fairgrounds. We would stop...