What started out as a group of ladies with a table at a building in Medford has turned into a year round craft store to showcase local artists. The Little Store began October 15, 1972 by a woman named Sandra Gurney, who worked hard to get the store up and running. In 1976, the store was moved to 218 S. Main St. At the time, they rented from Ed Paulin. Finally in May 2000, the store moved next

The city of Medford is making getting a bartenders license a little easier. At Monday’s committee of the whole meeting, council members recommended adopting a new operator license form which takes the application from seven pages into a two-page document. According to city clerk Ashley Lemke, the existing seven-page form has been a struggle with a number of boxes for the person filling

Taylor County taxpayers will soon get a wake up call as to the value of volunteers. Over the past year the county shifted from a primarily paid on call model for delivering ambulance services to having full time professional daytime crews in each of the three ambulance garage locations supplemented with on-call night crews. The service is authorized to have up to 16.2 full time equivalent positions

Rib Lake students will be Nashville bound next summer. At the September 8 meeting of the Rib Lake Board of Education, board members approved a four night trip to Nashville, Tenn. for the high school choir from June 19-23, 2023. The trip will include seeing a performance at the Grand Ole Opry - including a post-show tour, dinner at Paula Deen’s Kitchen, and Opry Plaza performance. On the educational

After years of making repairs, Taylor County will pay to replace the roof at the human services building located at 540 College Street in Medford. The current shingled roof was installed in late fall 2005 and according to buildings and grounds supervisor Joe Svejda , from the beginning department staff have had to deal with reported leaks damaging ceiling tiles and offices. “It should have

The city of Medford cleared the way for an in-home daycare provider to get her state license. Kimberly Konkel has operated an in-home daycare at 226 N. 3rd Street since 2016 and when going through the process to get licensed by the state she discovered she needed to get a conditional use permit from the city to have a home-based business. “I didn’t know I needed a conditional use permit,”