THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO

May 23, 2013

“Who these woods are I think I know.”

Doug Robertson quoted the famous Robert Frost line at the May 16 Medford Area School Board meeting at the district office as he defended the position of Hildegard and Loretta Kuse, the sisters who own and maintain the Kuse Preserve property which borders the district’s high school and elementary school property. The elderly sisters are the fourth generation of the family to live on the property since 1881.

The board spent almost an hour at its meeting trying to reach a final solution with the sisters. A special school board meeting was called for May 23 at 7 a.m. so all of the board members could view the property line together.

The dispute between the school and the Kuse sisters arose in December, 2012, when the school district sent them a letter asking to trim trees overhanging three school sheds on the northwest corner of the athletic field. The sisters consulted past surveys of the school boundary and discovered the sheds and a corner of the baseball field scoreboard are actually built on the Kuse property. The property line is also a boundary between the city and town of Medford.

25 YEARS AGO

May 27, 1998

Medford’s City Hall is bulging at the seams, but the Common Council appears no closer now than before about what to do to solve the problem. Several options had previously been presented, and the Council’s committee-of-the-whole was expected to make a recommendation last Tuesday night, but the issue was instead referred to the Finance and Personnel Committee for more study.

50 YEARS AGO

May 24, 1973

Gilman area school district held a ground breaking ceremony Wednesday for the $925,000 addition to the high school in Gilman. Work was scheduled to begin this week with January 1974 the target date for completion. Breaking ground for the addition was school board president Donald Syryczuk.

75 YEARS AGO

May 27, 1948

Charles Skogley, who has had considerable experience in Boy Scout work, has volunteered his services as scoutmaster for the Medford Troop, and has assumed his work Monday evening of this week. Skogley replaced Glen Olson, who resigned several weeks ago. The new scoutmaster has been a scout and reached the rank of Eagle, which is fine qualification for his position as director of the troop.

100 YEARS AGO

May 24, 1923

E.J. Kelly, whose building at Jump River was wrecked by dynamite at 1:20 in the morning one day last week, is in Medford today asking for an investigation of the dynamiting.

Mr. Kelly believes it was the work of a personal enemy, although it was rumored it was possibly done by a band operating as a ku klux organization.

125 YEARS AGO

May 28, 1898

Mr. J.W. Colwell, of Rib Lake and Miss Eva Kraemer of this city, were married by Justice Thomas at Rib Lake on Thursday of last week. The happy young couple came to Medford to complete the ceremony by having their photographs taken by Ed Dake and remained here at the Kraemer home until Saturday. They have the best wishes of a host of friends here.