Not so fast, city council votes down marketing proposal for recruitment grant, wants county to contribute to grant match

Tensions ran high at the annual meeting of the Taylor Electric Cooperative held at Centennial Community Center in Stetsonville on June 23. At issue was allegations from a long-simmering dispute over the 2025 election of the board of directors. At the 2025 meeting, several ballots were not counted due to them having been caught in the insulated bag used to collect ballots and were only discovere...

Large scale solar and wind energy projects are making headways in Wisconsin and the Taylor County Board wants county officials and residents to be ready when they come to this area. At Tuesdays’ county board session, board members heard from Diane Mayerfeld and Jessy Bradish of the UW-Extension on the recently completed RESET project. The project was funded through the U.S. Department of Ener...

The Medford Community Development Authority (CDA) held its annual meeting on June 18. Board members voted to reelect existing officers and reviewed the status of Tax Incremental District No. 13. The CDA is a tool used by the city to manage TIDs. It was created with TID 12 by Marathon Cheese and the sole remaining active TID under its authority is TID 13 which extends along Hwy 13 from Broadway ...