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Volunteers make it happen

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 ...
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Share the road and save a life

On July 17, 18-year-old Eli Miller of Granton was killed when his horse and buggy was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Meridian Avenue and Pine Creek Road in the town of York in Clark County. On July 15 a 13-year-old girl named Kristina Borntrager was killed in a collision involving a truck and an Amish buggy on Highway 58 in the town of Ironton in Sauk County On May 19, 56-year-...

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Don’t let vandals win

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...

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Marathon County is a lesson in what not to do when it comes to events

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...

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Time to get serious about election choices

The partisan primary elections are less than a month away, do you know who you are voting for? Candidates have been busy over the last few months attending dairy breakfasts, park concerts, party events, parades and anywhere else they can find potential voters to try and sway to support them. This year’s election season is even more busy than normal with wide open races for the 7th Congression...

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Right-to-repair is necessary for businesses, farmers, consumers

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreement with John Deere is good news for farmers and is a boost for consumers. The proposed agreement was completed July 8 by the FTC and the attorneys general of Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It will require Deere to make repair software, diagnostic tools and technical resources available to farmers and independent repair providers...

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Faster, more consistent out-of-town delivery needed for periodicals

Putting out a community newspaper is a lot like running a relay race. It starts each week, with the staff at putting in long hours covering meetings, sports and events and sitting down with residents and business owners to help share their stories. Staff then take those stories and photographs and lay out the pages. They are human beings, not computer algorithms, making choices about what...

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