“We don’t want to throw a lot of fear out there,” said Chuck Zenner addressing the audience and community at large during the first meeting of the county’s budget review committee. Zenner was selected as chairman of the committee which also includes board member Lynn Rosemeyer, county finance director Larry Brandl and county human resources director Nicole Hager. The committee voted to

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO February 14, 2013 At Monday’s city council committee of the whole meeting, aldermen gave preliminary approval to a plan for the Kossner-Dietzler VFW Post 5729 and Ladies Auxiliary to construct a gazebo in the State Street minipark. The park was developed on the site of the former Medford Armory when that building was demolished in 1989. Over the

MEDFORD BOYS HOCKEY BY MATT FREY SPORTS EDITOR A long Saturday of hockey at the Simek Recreation Center got off to an exciting start with Waupaca outlasting the host Medford Raiders 6-5 in the seventh- place game of the Great Northern Conference meet, which closed out the regular season for all eight league teams. Zack Gusmer’s goal with 2:28 left broke a 5-5 tie and allowed Waupaca

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO February 7, 2013 As Mayor Mike Wellner explains it, Weather Shield’s dam north of Allman Street in Medford did not cause a new floodplain to be created. However, if the dam wasn’t there, it is unlikely the Department of Natural Resources would have worried about a creek that connects the dam to the Black River. The floodplain map follows the course

Cost shouldn’t stand in the way of a young person having a positive prom experience. That idea was behind Ms. Midwest Dawn Quednow starting “Prom Perfect” connecting area young women with prom and formal wear at no cost to them. This year’s Prom Perfect event will be held on Monday, February 6 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Ice Age Pavilion in Rib Lake. Quednow explained that from doing pageants

letters, received Marawood all-conference honors and Scholar Athlete recognition; have the record for the longest punt (75 yards). In band and choir throughout school going to solo-ensemble in junior high and high school. Having my Dad as my high school principal. Being a Rib Lake NHS charter member. Remembering that my biggest critic during games sat – right there. Broke my leg

The induction ceremony for Richard Parks, the newest member of the Rib Lake School District Hall of Fame, will be held on Friday, January 27 at 1:30 pm in the Rib Lake High School Gymnasium. The public to join in honoring Parks, a 1979 graduate from Rib Lake High School. Parks is a lifelong educator who began his career in 1983 in the School District of Marathon as a mathematics teacher, baseball

BY ELIZABETH WILSON REPORTER It will cost city of Medford residents more to build or alter their homes under a proposal to increase permit fees for the first time since 2011. At the Medford Committee of the Whole and City Council meetings on January 23, 2023, Building Inspector Robert Christensen came to get Council’s approval for adjusting building fees for Medford to match those of other