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Lyle Johnson

Lyle B. Johnson, age 61, of Colby, passed away, coincidentally and appropriately, on Veterans’ Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, at the Marshfield Medical Center.

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Medford city coordinator Joe Harris talked to members of the Stetsonville Village Board on Dec. 15 about the potential of the city and village to apply for a grant that would help with sewer treatment plant operation expenses. The city and village are already working together on a planned force main to pump village waste to be processed at the Medford treatment plant. BRIAN WILSON/THE STAR NEWS
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Stetsonville, Medford eye shared grant opportunity for sewer costs...

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Volunteers make positive things happen for Taylor County veterans and their families
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Volunteers make positive things happen for Taylor County veterans and their families

As the proverb goes, “It takes a village” to get positive things done, whether it is raising a c...

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Gowey to receive state Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year award

Medford Area Public School District Department of Special Education is proud to announce that Lea Gowey has been nominated for and selected to receive: 2025 Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association (WSHA): Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year Award The award goes to recognize individuals who have been nominated by clients and/or client families for outstanding service. In s...

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County has more money on the books than in the bank

The million dollar question for Taylor County supervisors is how to resolve a more than $900,000 discrepancy between what the county’s books says should be in county reserves and what is actually there. The issue was first raised during the report on the audit conducted at the end of 2023. The need to address the issue was hit home again last week during a review of the audit done at the end ...

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WTC Consortium launches statewide AI training initiative

On Tuesday, a consortium of Wisconsin Technical College System institutions — Northcentral Technical College, Lakeshore College, Gateway Technical College, Moraine Park Technical College, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Western Technical College, Northwood Technical College and Mid-State Technical College — announced a...

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Rib Lake board approves pay increase for 2027

Rib Lake Village Board members will get a pay raise, but it won’t go into effect until April of 2027. The topic of board pay drew discussion at the December 10 meeting, with board members focused not on trying to increase their own pay, but in looking out for who might come after them on the board. Village president Bill Schreiner noted it has been more than 10 years since the board saw a ...

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