THE TIME MAC HINE
From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO
September 27, 2012
The city of Medford is holding the line on taxes. The proposed 2013 city budget calls for a levy of $1,555,322, which is identical to the 2012 budget levy. The levy is the portion of the city operating funds which are paid for through property taxes. Other city income includes, state aids in the form of shared revenue or transportation aids, fines and forfeitures, user fees and payments from the city-run utilities. Of the funding sources, local taxes and shared revenues account for the bulk of the city’s operating funds. City coordinator John Fales reviewed the proposed budget during the city council committee of the whole meeting Monday night.
25 YEARS AGO
September 24, 1997
District Administrator Paul Schoenberger presented the Medford Area School Board with revised figures for the construction of the new bus parking lot at Medford Area Elementary School. According to his revised estimate, the lot will cost $67,637 this fall. That includes two inches of blacktop put on in the next few weeks. A second layer of blacktop will possibly be added next spring, with the cost running from $15-$25,000 depending on the thickness, according to Schoenberger. That would bring the total cost estimate to the $82,000 to $92,000 range.
50 YEARS AGO
September 28, 1972
Rev. Russell Schmidt will be installed as pastor Sunday afternoon at Zion Lutheran Church, Stetsonville. Services at 2 o’clock will be conducted by Rev. M. W. Zank, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church, Medford and interim pastor at Stetsonville. Professor Loren Schaller, father of Mrs. Schmidt and son of the late Rev. Herbert Schaller, former Medford pastor, will preach the sermon.
75 YEARS AGO
September 25, 1947
Although it has been in satisfactory operation since the latter part of July the final test was not given the new city well on the Forrest Taylor property Southeast of Medford until Tuesday and the unit passed all necessary requirements in what has been termed as a more than satisfactory manner. The test completed the city’s contract with the Layne-Northwest company of Milwaukee.
100 YEARS AGO
September 28, 1922
Farm tractors, working under the direction of County Agent R. A. Kolb, and John Swenehart, E. L. Watson, H. R. Chipman, and M. E. Jahr of the state land clearing department, and F. W. Duffee of the Wis. U. Engineering Dept., have been doing a remarkable thing today at the V. J. Hirsch farm five miles south of Medford.
125 YEARS AGO
October 2, 1897
Mr. McComb, the promoter of the McComb race track addition to the village of Rib Lake, was in the city last Wednesday and favored the Star And News with a pleasant call. The work of platting the addition was completed several weeks ago, and a crew of twenty men has been steadily at work ever since grading streets, building sidewalks and erecting new buildings for Mr. McComb, and the place has been a steady hive of industry. Among the new buildings, is the opera hall block, size 60x108 feet to contain besides a hall the full size of the building, two plate glass store rooms, 30x80 feet each on the first floor. The hall will have a stage with a 30foot curtain and conveniently arranged dressing rooms.
