THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News

10 YEARS AGO

May 26, 2011

The days of having a college on College street in Medford may be numbered.

When Northcentral Technical College president Lori Weyers looks to the future, she envisions an educational hub with NTC leasing a new building near the campus of Medford Area Senior High School. Such a facility will allow for greater cooperation and integration between the high school and college and allow the college to work closely with businesses such as Memorial Health Center, which is close to the school campus.

In a phone interview Tuesday, Weyers said she and school district administrator Pat Sullivan have begun talking about the concept of a shared campus, but there is a long way to go before it is finalized. Both the Medford school board and NTC’s board would have to approve any plan.

25 YEARS AGO

May 29, 1996

The new Citizen’s Library Research Committee has narrowed its search for potential sites for Medford’s new public library to seven.

The committee was formed earlier this month to develop an alternative plan for a library building and loca- tion, and a sub-committee headed by Pat Doyle reviewed 16 possible sites last week, selection seven for review by the entire committee.

At Tuesday night’s committee meeting, Doyle explained that his sub-committee (Doyle, Bill Gruenwald and Steve Mayer) had ranked the 16 original sites on visibility, accessibility, traffic, size of lot, cost, availability of sidewalks, availability of city services, prior use, cost to prepare site, availability, parking , lack of known problems, site size for future expansion, and compatibility with surroundings.

50 YEARS AGO

May 27, 1971

The week’s rash of break ins in Taylor county mounted to four Tuesday night, the series beginning Sunday night with extensive vandalism committed at Taylor County Electric Cooperative building south of Medford.

Following the Sunday night incident, the sheriff’s department received a call at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday that the burglary alarm was sounding at Bootzin’s IGA Store in Stetsonville. Chief deputy Ray Meyer, accompanied by the store owner, Ivan Bootzin, found the back door forced open.

75 YEARS AGO

May 23, 1946

Two members of a Soo Line construction crew, which started work here Friday morning on the construction of a spur track to the Medford Cooperative Creamery, were electrocuted at 7:40 a.m. The boom of the crane they were working with came in near contact with the 33,000 volt line on Perkins street, just west of the tracks and it is believed by authorities that the current flashed from the line to the steel boom causing the mishap.

100 YEARS AGO

May 25, 1921

Brogan, Ross, McCullough Co. started the graveling of State Highway No. 13 Tuesday, on their contract covering ten miles of that road north of the city.

Taylor county is doing other work on No. 13 north between Westboro—Chelsea. This was begun Monday and will be done by the County road people direct, employing day labor.

Other work was started last week by the county road people. This is general work on State Highway No. 64, western Taylor County, on the line between the town of Hammel and Holway, commencing at the Goodrich corner.

125 YEARS AGO

May 23, 1896

West Superior, Wis., May 18—[Special]— There are upwards of 2,500,000 feet of logs floating about the head of the lake and waters of Superior and Allouez bays. In addition to the 3,000,000 feet which escaped Thursday night by the breaking of the Nemadji Boom company’s boom, 1,500,000 of which found their way out into Lake Superior and the balance of which lodged in the inland waters, the tug Bennett reports the loss of 800,000 feet in a raft which went to pieces during the storm just outside the natural entry.

Remember When — 2002