Change doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen by itself. On Tuesday, local, state and national dignitaries gathered at Medford Area Middle School to formally announce an agreement that will help to rapidly move Taylor County into the mainstream of culture and commerce by ensuring access to affordable broadband, high speed internet throughout the county. The county has been working

What are your expectations for today’s youth? It seems to me that we are always underestimating the ability of our youngest citizens. I often wonder what could happen if we didn’t have such low expectations of “kids”. How often do you hear the phrase “kids these days”? To me it implies that kids were better long ago. Is that true? I’m not so sure. What I am sure of is that kids want to

Victory is all about defining expectations and achievement. The typical draw schedule for a recreational bonspiel looks something like an inverse of your standard March Madness bracket. Instead of many teams working in to a final championship, you have all the teams in the center with the winners of the first round advancing to one side in the first event and the losers advancing to the second

Brian Wilson A few weeks ago, a reader sent me a copy of an article that ran in the Spring 2021 issue of “The Keystone.” The magazine put out by Arkansas State University-Mountain Home campus. The article focused on non-traditional students coming back to school to pursue nursing degrees after having other careers. Admittedly I get a lot of unusual things at the office, including

As the Wisconsin legislature continues to play politics with public health, local leaders must step up and take action to impose local mask rules. County Board members should enact their own ongoing mask rule for public spaces and commercial buildings until a larger rollout of vaccinations occurs and the pandemic is contained at the local level. While ideally this would take place at the county