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Talking toenails

Toenails have been the talk of the town in Taylor County over the past week. The topic of toenail care, and if the county health department should continue to provide this service to residents was ...
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Off book

On Tuesday morning I woke up from a nightmare. It was similar to the nightmare we all have had where you are back in high school and the teacher is handing out the final exam test papers and you realize that you don’t know any of the material on the test or even what class it is. And that for some reason you aren't wearing pants. What? . . . Is that so? . . . I’m the only person who has ...

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30 years

In May 1996, Medford’s Main Street was a gaping, muddy hole in the ground. Memorial Hospital of Taylor County announced a new cooperative network with hospitals in Merrill and Wausau. And, some know-it-all kid, barely a year out journalism school came to as the paper’s sports editor. Those first few weeks were terrifying. The diploma collecting dust on my bookshelf, and the massive stude...

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Coverage

“No one covers graduation anymore.” Last week I got an email from Luke Klink, the editor of the Ladysmith News over in Rusk County. A Taylor County youth was mentioned in a press release he had received and he wanted to make sure I had seen it. Prior to leaving for the editor position there, Luke had worked for several years as a reporter at We still keep in contact fairly regularly a...

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Ramona

I first noticed the nest. As nests go it was a well-constructed affair. It was solidly built with care and patience, obviously the work of experienced builders who had seen more than a single spring. It lacked the slapdash sloppiness that you often see in a bird’s first attempt at building a nest. For weeks we watched the nest take shape in the large bush along the path next to my garage, ...

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