Saskatoon Damm, a graduating senior at Medford Area Senior High School, has been named one of more than 5,000 candidates in the 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year 2023. Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating

During Richard Parks’ senior year at Rib Lake High School he broke his leg while playing in a football game. Through hard work and determination the class of 1979 Rib Lake graduate overcame what could have been the end of his high school sports career and made it back to play the opening game of that year’s basketball season. Parks gave that as just one example of the need for tenacity,