Nerves of spaghetti

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 brought up at three separate county committee meetings where it only was tangentially related to anything on those meeting’s agendas. Taylor County Health Department provides medical toenail care...

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 ...

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...