Schools are right to seek legal action against social media companies

With the ever-changing world we live in, adapting to change quickly and knowing what your future will look like in two, five or even ten years is hard to predict. As someone who grew up on my family's fifth generation farm, it has always been in my interest to become more involved and possibly take over the farm someday. It always seemed like it was achievable, but now myself and many others in...

At Monday night’s Medford School Board annual meeting, there was a nearly hour-long discussion about how, and how much, school board members should be paid. In the context of the district’s $41 million budget, the few hundred dollars difference between the proposals amounts to less than a rounding error — representing about .01% of the overall budget. While how elected officials choose...

Homecoming hijinks crossed the line in Medford last week as students threw eggs at the school building, businesses, private homes, and vehicles in the community. Unlike toilet paper in trees, which at best indirectly supports the logging and paper making industries in Wisconsin and at worst will be gone after the next rainstorm; eggs contain sulfur compounds and amino acids. When they dry in th...