THE TIME MAC HINE
From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO
August 30, 2012
If a trial period of scheduling for professional learning communities is successful, the Medford Area School District may be able to end the early student release dates in the 2013-2014 calendar. The school board approved at its meeting Thursday a plan where staff members working in the professional learning communities, known as PLCs, would meet in the morning before school starts 12 times during the school year rather than use the early release days for those development opportunities. The change would allow those staff members to then leave earlier at the end of the day.
25 YEARS AGO
August 27, 1997
A letter from Choice Vending Company to the City of Medford administration got the ball rolling. The Village of Dorchester, the Village of Rib Lake, and the City of Colby were offering to give the business some land and the appropriate sewer and water hookups for free so that a move would be easy. “There were so many things that all of a sudden sufaced,” Choice Vending Company owner Ken Havlovick said. Choice Vending Company is in the process of relocating to a new site from their current one at 1010 S. 8th St., but really want to stay in Medford.
50 YEARS AGO
August 31, 1972
In conjunction with the Chippewa Falls office of the vocational district, six adult education courses will be offered at Gilman high school this fall. The courses will require at least 12 persons in attendance, according to Douglas Chickering, administrator. Persons interested are asked to contact the administrator’s office, classes to start the second week in September.
75 YEARS AGO
August 28, 1947
It was announced this week by the public service commission that the Midway Telephone Co., Medford, had made application under section 196.80, statutes, to purchase the property of the Bruckerville Telephone Co., town of Holton, Marathon county, at a price to be established by the commission following a valuation. In order to carry out its duties, Edward T. Kaveny, secretary, stated that the commission would investigate the books, accounts, practices and activities of the Midway firm, and make an appraisal of the property proposed to be purchased.
100 YEARS AGO
August 31, 1922
The Midway Telephone Company will start next week on their new phone building. The location will be on Division Street, east of the First National Bank building, where the company owns the piece of ground facing on Division between the bank property and the alley.
125 YEARS AGO
September 4, 1897
A car load of water mains for the Perkinstown water works arrived Thursday and are now being hauled to that hemlock metropolis in the wilderness. The work of digging the trenches, we are informed, is about completed, and now that the piping has arrived the system will be completed in short time, and Perkinstown will be the first village in the county to have a complete system of water works. Power will be supplied by the tannery, and the running expenses of the plant will be scarcely nothing. Thus the taxpayers of that village will be benefitted in more ways than one. They will henceforth be able to get their property insured at reasonable rates besides the many conveniences the works afford.
