The Star News January 14, 2016

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photo by Bryan Wegter
One vehicle crash
Emergency personnel worked to remove the occupant of a one-vehicle crash on Hwy 13 north of Medford on Monday morning. According
to the deputys report the southbound vehicle drifted across the centerline into the northbound lane and entered a ditch before striking a tree.
The driver was transported from the scene and later was airlifted to Aspirus Wausau Hospital. The name of the driver has not been released. See
story on page 9.
Museum seeks Main St. green space

Employee recognized
by Melvin Companies
Page 10
Area deaths
Obituaries start on
page 14 for:
Enid V. Blomberg
Milan G. Czarnezki
Richard L. Hartman
Vernon Harrenstein
Grace M. Paul
Lisa Marie Poncek
Daniel W. Romanowski
Dorothy V. Scharer
William P. Wedeking
Hueys Hideaway wants to

develop the space for
outdoor exhibits, programs
by News Editor Brian Wilson
The city of Medford moved closer to giving
ing
a new downtown childrens museum a vacant
ant
green space at the south end of Main St.
Members of Hueys Hideaways organizing
ing
board spoke with the city council at Mondays
ys
committee of the whole meeting to update the
city on the museums progress and requestt to
acquire the green space next to the planned
ned
museum location.
According to museum board president Alli
Ranum, with a fundraising drive that raised
sed
more than $225,000 since it began last July,
uly,
organizers were able to move ahead with the
purchase of a a building at 317 S. Main Street.
The building will be completely remodeled for
use as the museum with hopes to have it open
in late 2016.
tries.
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museum. He said th
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rently more than an hour away in
having facilities in town such as Hueys
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Stevens Point, organizers are hopHideaway wil
ing Hueys Hideaway will serve to
that effort.
fulfill a need in Taylor County.
He also cautioned council
Mayor Mike Wellner was
members to not overlook the economic development tool
out of town on Monday but
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tle in Medford nizers if they wanted the city to give the land or if they would use it for field
trips and other purand serves as would purchase it
poses.
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to help give people an understanding of how their donations are spent.
Where your
donation goes:
Neighbor-to-Neighbor of Taylor County, Inc.
What is your organizations primary focus?

To bring our county together through volunteers and donations
to improve the homes and lives of our neighbors in need.
How long have you been around and where

are you located?
Neighbor-to-Neighbor of Taylor County, Inc. was established
in the fall of 2011. Nine people from throughout Taylor County
gathered together to learn more about the needs of our neighbors.
These individuals came from many different organizations, businesses and churches.
Who are some of the local key people to

know?
Neighbor-to-Neighbor Board Members: Nancy Bellendorf, Dan
Olson, Dan Mayer, Jennifer Sobotta, Bill Klingbeil, Molly Knoll,
Justin Mayer and Pete Klingbeil.
Volunteers helped with a yard clean up in Medford.
What is there about your organization that people dont know, but should?
Family members and neighbors can encourage homeowners of any age who are physically or financially challenged to remain
safely in their homes. We will visit applicants like neighbors of the past, not on the other side of the fence, but on the front porch
or in the kitchen to help determine the need and scope of the project. If possible, we will provide minor modification, repair, and/
or clean up services that will help them stay.
In addition to supporting Neighbor-to-Neighbor, how can people get involved to help

you?
Volunteers are the backbone to any project. The projects that Neighbor-to-Neighbor initiates will be coordinated and completed by either professional volunteers (i.e. contractors, plumbers, electricians, etc.), or by non-professional volunteers (i.e. church
groups, community organizations, etc.). Reach out to any board member to show your interest in helping with our next project.
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
The deadline for having items published in the Community Calendar is 5

p.m. on Tuesdays.
Gamblers Anonymous Meetings
Call 715-297-5317 for dates, times and
locations.
Sunday, Jan. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous Open 12
Step Study Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E.
Broadway, Medford.
Monday, Jan. 18
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)
1013 of Rib Lake Meeting Weighin 5:15 p.m. Meeting 6 p.m. Rib Lake Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front
Street. Information: Mary 715-427-3593 or
Sandra 715-427-3408.
High and Low Impact Step Aerobics Mondays and Wednesdays 6-7
p.m. Stetsonville Elementary School,
W5338 CTH A. Information: Connie 715678-2656 or Laura 715-678-2517 evenings.
Chequamegon Bird Club Meeting
7 p.m. Frances L. Simek Memorial Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Visitors
welcome.
Taylor County Day Care Provider
Support Group Meeting 7 p.m. The
Sports Page, 1174 W. Broadway Ave.,
Medford. Information: Kelly Emmerich

715-748-6192.
Taylor County Autism Support
Group 6-7 p.m. Taylor County Education Center, 624 College Ave., Medford.
Tuesday, Jan. 19
Medford Rotary Club Meeting
Breakfast 6:45 a.m. Filling Station Cafe
& Bar, 884 W. Broadway Ave., Medford.
Information: 715-748-0370.
Al-Anon Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E.
Broadway, Medford. Information: 715427-3613.
Alcoholics Anonymous Open Topic
Meeting 7 p.m. Community United
Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.
Overeaters Anonymous Meeting
7 p.m. Hwy 64 and Main Street, Medford.
Stroke Support Group 1-2 p.m. Aspirus Medford Hospital, 135 S. Gibson St.,
Medford. Details: 715-748-8875.
Wednesday, Jan. 20
Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
6:30 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102
and Front Street, Rib Lake. Information:
Arlene 715-427-3613.
Brain Injury Support Group Meeting 6:30 p.m. Town of Hill Town Hall.
American Legion Auxiliary 274
Meeting 6:30 p.m. Legion Clubhouse,

727 McComb Ave., Rib Lake.
Thursday, Jan. 21
Medford Kiwanis Club Meeting
Noon lunch. Frances L. Simek Memorial
Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Information: 715-748-3237.
Medford Association of Rocket Science (MARS) Club Meeting 6-9 p.m.
First Floor Conference Room, Taylor
County Courthouse, 224 S. Second St.,
Medford. Everyone welcome. Information: 715-748-9669.
Alcoholics
Anonymous
Closed
Meeting 7 p.m. Community United
Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.
Friday, Jan. 22
Narcotics Anonymous Open Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church
of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. Information: 715-965-1568.
Storytime Fridays 10:30 a.m.
Frances L. Simek Memorial Library, 400
N. Main St., Medford. Activities include
stories, songs and snacks. Children age
2-3 and their parents or caregivers meet
for 20 minutes in the big conference
room. Children age 4-5 meet for 30 minutes in the small conference room while
their parents or caregivers remain in the
library. Storytime does not meet when
Medford Public Schools are closed.
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Council says follow policy, cut down tree

Gibson St. resident had
called on city to spare tree,
planters in right of way
Homeowners called on the city to
give a tree a chance rather than getting
cut down as part of the Gibson St. reconstruction project.
Gibson St., south of Cedar Street, is
scheduled for reconstruction this summer. The project includes replacing all
the utilities, road surface, driveway
aprons, curb and gutter and sidewalk as
needed on the stretch of city street. City
policy calls for the routine removal of
any trees or items from the city right of
way, which typically extends to the inside edge of the sidewalk and includes
the boulevard area between the street
and the sidewalk.
According to city coordinator John
Fales, the city switched to this policy a
number of years ago to make it easier
for the city to use the boulevard area for
snow storage when plowing the roads.
He explained that after large amounts of
snow, the city cuts back the piles by the
curbs to improve visibility and the city
was facing damage to equipment and
peoples property in the right of way.
I cannot make special exceptions
for anybody. I have to treat everybody
exactly the same, Fales said about the
homeowners request to spare the tree. I
have to say the same thing every time,
he said.
In recent years, the city council has
only made an exception for oak trees in
the right of way on Cedar Street after the
homeowners came to the city council.
Last year, the city removed a number of
large maple trees along Taylor St. as part
of the road project there.
Longtime Gibson St. resident Charlene Doyle and her daughter Heidi Nichols called on the city to spare the tree.
Nichols said they had spoken with a forester who said as long as excavation near
the tree could be minimized it could survive the construction.
Fales was less optimistic about the
trees chances of survival. He explained
the citys practice has been to cut back
the curb two feet which would bring it
within about two feet of the trunk on the
west side. In addition, the city will be replacing the utility services which are to
the north of the tree and about eight feet
underground.
In addition to the tree, the homeowners are also seeking the OK to rebuild
the retaining block planters in the road
right-of-way after the project is completed. For decades the raised planting beds
have contained flowers and decorative
plants. The planting areas were orginally built in 1951 and were replaced in
1974 and then redone in 1996. Nichols
said this was done as a way to help beautify the city. She read from a letter written to the city clarifying their ability to
rebuild them. City Clerk Virginia Brost
said there was no record of action being
taken at that time by the city.
Alderman Mike Bub said he has remembered the beds being in place for as
long as he has lived in the city. He urged
the council to work with the property
owners to try and save the tree and allow
them to replace the planters.
It looks nice as you drive down the
road, Bub said. This has been here a
long time and is part of our community,
we need to look at what we can do to
work with the property owner and make
it look nice, he said.
However, for Bub, the bigger concern
was who would foot the bill for removing
Policy question
photo by Brian Wilson
Alderman Jim Peterson points out the location of the three raised planting areas that would be removed as part of the road project. The homeowner had planned to rebuild the planters following the works completion.
the tree if it died in the future as a result
of the construction project. I dont think
the taxpayers should be on the hook if
there are additional costs, he said.
He called on the property owners to
either agree that they would take responsibility for removing the tree at their
expense if it were to die or have the tree
removed as part of the project. The city
covers the cost of tree removal as part of
road projects.
Nichols questioned why they should
have to agree to pay for tree removal if
the city already does that as a service
for dead trees near power lines. The oak
trees branches extend across the road
to the power lines on the west side of the
street and are also adjacent to the pole
providing the service to their home.
Nichols noted there were a number of
properties around the city with items in
the right of way, from masonry mailbox
posts to pillars at the ends of driveways.
Doyle asked if the city would be forcing
all of those property owners to remove
their items in the right of way.
We are cleaning our right of ways
up, Fales said.
That is the way our policy works. As
we do streets, that is what we do, said
council president Greg Knight who was
running the meeting in the absence of
mayor Mike Wellner.
Fales cautioned against making exceptions. I dont know how you can
say to the people on Taylor that we had
to cut their trees down if this is allowed
to stay, he said. He said the exceptions
made to the trees on Cedar Street are the
reason the city is in the predicament it
is in now.
In the end, aldermen voted 5-3 to enforce the existing policy and remove the
tree and planters as part of the construction project. Clem Johnson, Bub and Jim
Peterson voted against the motion. Dave
Brandner was a swing vote on the motion
saying he supported it now but wanted
time to look at the property before the final vote at next weeks city council meeting. Aldermen Arlene Parent, Peggy Kraschnewski, Greg Knight, Dave Roiger
and Brandner voted in favor of the motion to recommend sticking with policy.
In other business, aldermen:
Recommended approval of a new

iPad use policy. According to city clerk
Virginia Brost, the policy was copy and
pasted from ones other municipalities
use. The policy is part of the citys conversion to paperless meeting packets.
The city has purchased iPad tablet computers for each of the council members,
mayor and city coordinator. Board members will have access to the packets there
through a service provided by a vendor.
The city hopes to implement the new system in February. In reviewing the policy,
aldermen clarified that pirated software
applications and devices would be prohibited and removed a clause requesting
council members to back up the data on
the machines to their own storage. It was
stated that as city-issued devices anything on the iPads would be open for public examination under the open records
rules. There was a concern raised if by

backing up the device to a private home
computer or storage, that the contents on
that device could become subject to open
records requests.
Recommended increasing the

rate charged for city work done for private individuals from $50 per hour to
$52.65 per hour. The rate is increased
each year to reflect the total burden cost
of city employee labor including wages
and benefits.
Reviewed the building permit

report. Projects included a new pavilion
to be built at Black River Golf Course on
CTH O as well as a cart wash at Nestle
Pizza Division and assorted home improvements. Total estimated construction cost for the five permits issued was
$141,000 with $100,000 of that for the new
cart wash at Nestle.
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Did someone say cookies?
Thursday,
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Dr. Joseph Zondlo

to be inducted into
Hall of Fame Friday
Girl Scouts from Medford, Rib Lake and Prentice gathered at Forest Spring Camp and Conference Center Sunday
for the annual cookie rally. The event includes training on safety, customer service and what is new with cookie
sales this year. Cookie sales for this region start next week. Here, girls work on making clipboards to aid when doing their sales.
The Rib Lake School District will be inducting another former Rib Lake High School graduate into the
Hall of Fame on Friday, Jan. 15 at 1:30 p.m. Every year
the Rib Lake School District seeks nominations for the
school districts Hall of Fame. Anyone can make a nomination and submit before June 30. Candidates must be a
graduate of Rib Lake or Westboro High School at least
five years ago (military service may be used in place of
graduation), must have distinguished him or herself in
their chosen field of endeavor, must reflect positively on
the Rib Lake community, and must show a generous contribution of time and talent.
The selection committee announces that the 2016 Rib
Lake Hall of Fame inductee is Dr. Joseph Zondlo.
Dr. Zondlo graduated from Rib Lake High School in
1957 and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science
from UW-Superior and a MD from UW-Madison. He became board certified in pediatrics before joining the US
Army from 1969-1971.
The public is invited to join the Rib Lake community
in honoring Dr. Joseph Zondlo on Jan. 15, 1:30 p.m. in the
Rib Lake High School gymnasium.
Rep. Edming supports

Taylor County Wellness Coalition will be part H.O.P.E Bill package
of Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute
The Taylor County Wellness Coalition was selected
to participate in the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institutes Community Teams Program, a year-long leadership training program, provided by the UW School of
Medicine and Public Health. The training will assist the
local coalition members, residents and communities in
how to prepare and implement strategies, to address
most pressing social, economic and environmental influences creating unhealthy communities.
The team is receiving training and technical assistance from national and state experts in building stronger community partnerships, implementing sustainable change strategies and measuring success. The local
coalition is working to address priorities identified by
the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHIP), led
by Aspirus Medford and the Taylor County Health Department, along with statistical data relating to county
health and nutrition issues.
The team will meet three times during the year-long
program for workshops held in northwest Wisconsin
locations, participate in regular webinars and also receive in-community technical assistance.
Participants in the program represent multiple pub-
lic and private sectors, including health care and human service providers, UW Extension staff, community
residents, Public Health, policy makers, communitybased non-profits agency representatives and public
school officials.
The local team is led by a core group of people including: Amanda Lange, occupational health and wellness
manager at Aspirus Medford Hospital; Ingrid Purvis,
Taylor County Health Department; Peggy Nordgren,
UW Extension; and Sue Breneman, Taylor County
board. The coalition currently has commitments for
team members from Gilman Public Schools, home
school advocates, County Market dietician Kate Bromann and are inviting interested members to contact
Amanda Lange at Aspirus Medford Hospital.
The Wellness Coalition of Taylor County initiates,
supports and promotes a healthy lifestyle for individuals, families and communities and the vision is to implement sustainable outreach efforts that provide opportunities for healthy lifestyle choices in Taylor County.
For more information on becoming a member of the
Taylor County Wellness Coalition contact Lange at Aspirus Medford Hospital at 715-748-8128.
Rep. James W. Edming (R-Glen Flora) supported four

bills from the H.O.P.E. Agenda (Heroin, Opiate Prevention and Education). The bills seek to assist individuals
suffering from opioid addiction and offer resources to
fight against Wisconsins opioid and heroin epidemic.
My district, like so many over communities in our
state, is impacted by the opioid epidemic, said Rep.
Edming. This legislative package will combat the epidemic by making it harder to begin and will provide lifesaving tools to those who are already addicted.
Under the legislation, pharmacies will have to report
all prescription painkillers filled within 24 hours. Additionally, physicians must reference the Prescription
Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) when writing prescriptions for any monitored controlled substance.
The assembly also approved legislation that will assist prescribers, dispensers, and law enforcement in obtaining and examining data to minimize issues such as
overprescribing, doctor shopping, and pill mills.
This bill package is the second portion of a comprehensive plan to counter the epidemic.
Group seeks lot for outdoor activities, events

Continued from page 1
Community member Brian Hallgren also urged the
city to support the museum efforts, he said he looks
forward to bringing his own grandchildren there in the
future. He also praised the organizers of the museum,
many of whom are parents of younger children and just
beginning to get active in the community. He said they
would be the ones to fill city council seats in the future.
While the group gave the city an update on the project, the primary reason for them being at the meeting
was to ask the city for use of the large greenspace south
of their building. The space has been vacant for several
decades and is currently maintained by the city as lawn.
If the museum were to take over the space, they would
be responsible for mowing the grass and maintaining it.
Ranum said having access to such a space would allow for outdoor programing which would expand the
ages of those served by the museum. She noted that very
few childrens museums have outdoor areas and that it
would be something to set Hueys Hideaway apart. Organizers are planning a northwoods, outdoorsy theme
for the museum and having an outdoor space would tie
into that. It was noted that having the space was not an
essential part of the project and that it would proceed
without it if necessary.
The question, said council president Greg Knight,
who was running the meeting in the mayors absence,
was if the city would give the museum the city-owned

parcel or if the museum would be willing to buy it. As
of Mondays meeting, the city had not given any formal
financial support to the museum project.
Alderman Arlene Parent noted the museum was a
not-for-profit and would be exempt from property taxes.
She asked the organizers if they had considered making a payment in lieu of taxes to the city to cover the
services the city provides. Ranum said it was something
they would have to consider.
After hearing the update on the project in open session, aldermen went into closed session to deliberate on
the request to acquire the property. At one point during
the closed session, board members were called in to answer questions.
While there was no formal action to come out of the
closed session with action expected at next weeks regular city council meeting, Knight said after the meeting
they are moving forward on the museum owning the
parcel.
In other business at Mondays meeting, aldermen
Recommended approval of the new three-year joint
ownership and service agreement for the Medford Area
Fire Department. The agreement is between the city
and the towns of Browning, Chelsea, Goodrich, Grover,
Hammel, Medford and Molitor. There were no changes
to the prior agreement.
The bordered area is the green space Hueys Hideaway Childrens Museum wants to acquire from the city.
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Many hands work

to help area
veterans in need
A local group that helps people with home repairs
lent a helping hand to a Rib Lake veteran recently.
According to Taylor County Veteran Service Officer
Jeff Hein, Neighbor-to-Neighbor helped with the Ron
Evens project in Rib Lake, providing the materials for
the stairs and landing for the new trailer home.
He said the group has also assisted with a disabled
veteran that had to move on short notice, and an elderly
vet with plumbing issues and one with a flooring safety
issue.
Other groups including Indianhead Action Agency
and the Salvation Army, have helped local veterans
through hotel vouchers for homeless veterans, food
pantry access and transportation assistance.
One area that Hein is working on is to address the
housing needs of veterans who face substandard or no
housing availability. Supportive Services for Veterans
and their Families has assisted his office with several
homeless veterans in the area by helping to find housing and job employment.
Hein also taps into regional resources to help veterans. The Veterans Assistance Foundation runs a shelter and treatment program on the Tomah Veterans Adminstration campus, and Heins office is working with
them to manage a trailer in Rib Lake to be used to house
homeless veterans. I try to direct donations to these organizations whenever I am offered, Hein said, praising
the work done by these groups on behalf of veterans and
others.
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Hard at work
photos by Brian Wilson
Cub Scouts, along with help from their families, were hard at
work at the Medford Area Senior High School shop class Tuesday
night getting their Pinewood Derby cars ready for this weekends
races. The cars must meet set specifications and are powered by
gravity. The annual races will be held at Medford Area Elementary
School with registration at 1:30 p.m. and races starting at 2 p.m.
There will be competitions among Cub Scouts as well as an open
class for family and others wishing to enter a car. Cars are judged
based on speed as well as on design with participants voting on
the best car.
Rubys Pantry starts online registration for food

New system intended to provide
payment options, reduce wait at
food distribution locations
A program that works to solve food security issues in
rural areas is gaining a high-tech tool in reaching consumers.
Each month Rubys Pantry comes to the Medford
area as one of its stops. Volunteers help sort and distribute shares of food with people paying a discounted
amount to cover administration of the program.
To help speed up the service, starting in January
2016, people may register and prepay online prior to the
date. Patrons may preregister at www.rubyspantry.org.
They can pick a time slot from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Time
slots are in 15-minute increments. The online preregistration opens each month five days before distribution
and closes 24 hours before the distribution.
Patrons will still be able to arrive and pay the day

of the distributions, explained Roxanne Sahr, assistant
executive director at Rubys Pantry and great-granddaughter of its namesake.
We are trying it and seeing if people like it, she
said. One of the advantages of the program is that it allows people to use credit or debit cards to pay online
rather than having the cash to pay the $20 donation
at the time of the distribution. She noted people have
asked about using electronic payment options in the
past and this helps address that need.
One other advantage of the preregistration is that is
allows for more efficient staffing and less time waiting
in the cold for patrons. It is cold in the midwest and we
want to get people in quicker, she said.
The changes are part of the organizations ongoing
mission to combat food insecurity and put Americas
surplus food to work helping those in need.
We want to get food out to people to help their families, Sahr said. There is so much extra food in America and we want it to go to good use.
through the Ole
The Pine Line Rail Trail will open for snowmobiles

only on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 8 a.m.
All other county snowmobile trails will remain
closed.
Correction
An article in the Jan. 7 issue of The Star News had the

incorrect list of candidates running for Medford Area
Public Schools. Correctly, the incumbents Cheryl Wibben, Mark Reuter and Paul Dixon are running for reelection and are being challenged by Jeff Lange.
Medford, WI
Distribution will be held at
Medford Armory
on Jensen Drive
2-157441
Pine Line to open for snowmobiles
Country Cowboy Church
GROCERY DISTRIBUTION
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016
Distribution from 10am-12pm
Abundance of groceries for
$20.00 cash donation

If your family could use some
groceries... Please come.
No income requirements
New
Volunteers
are
Welcome!
Please bring your own containers for groceries

2-157444
The January food distribution will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Medford National Guard Armory on
Jensen Drive in Medford.
Phone 715-678-2381 or 715-748-2944 or

e-mail kburisek@jesusanswers.com for more information.
Starting in Jan. 2016
EARLY REGISTRATION
FOR MEDFORD
Register at www.rubyspantry.org
Pick your time slot from 10:30-12:00
Slots open up every 15 minutes
Optional Pre-Register/Pre-Pay
Pre-Registration is open 5 days before
distribution begins and will close 24 hours prior
Need help? Questions?

Call 651-674-0009
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Thursday,
September
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Editorials
Dont throw consumers to the wolves

A pair of Wisconsin bills would gut consumer protections against unscrupulous out of state junk debt collectors at a time when the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) is calling for increased scrutiny of these businesses.
According to a report issued by the State Bar of Wisconsin, the bills, 2015 Assembly Bill 117 and its companion 2015 Senate Bill 92, significantly change the pleading requirements for debt collection lawsuits against
Wisconsin consumers. While this may not sound like a
big deal to non-lawyers and probably looked like a procedural item for the legislators in the assembly who voted
for it, the impact to consumers in Wisconsin will be profoundly negative.
The proposed laws will make it easier for companies
that buy bad debts from banks or other businesses to
seek civil judgments against consumers regardless of
the accuracy of those debts. The bills open the door to
abuse by predatory collectors using heavy-handed methods. It gives them no risk in flooding the courts with collection claims knowing they have nothing to lose even if
the cases are tossed out.
The debt collection industry is a booming one. According to the FTC, there are 77 million Americans who have
debt in collections on their credit reports. Typically
once a bank or business has made attempts to collect on
an outstanding debt, it will sell the debt to a collection
agency. These debts are often sold and resold numerous times as part of larger debt portfolios to companies
which specialize in these types of collections.
The debt collecting companies attempt to collect on

the amount they say is owed through phone calls, letters
and eventually seeking court rulings. The problem, as far
as consumer protection goes, is that in many cases the
information about the debt is incorrect.
The FTC has tracked a number of cases where collections were being attempted for debt that had already
been discharged through bankruptcy, paid, or was past
the statutory limits for time. As a result, the federal government is calling for states to enact higher standards
for debt collection companies to make sure they do their
homework before flooding the courts with debt collection
lawsuits.
Instead of following the lead of states such as North
Carolina, New York, Maryland and Maine which tightened the rules for filing debt collection lawsuits for junk
debt collectors, Wisconsin lawmakers are doing the opposite and making it easier for debt collection companies
to file frivolous and unfounded claims while putting an
increased burden on the court system to examine the
claims to see if they are valid.
Currently the main protection victims of predatory
collection practices have is to know their legal fees will
be covered when they win in court. This makes it easier
for victims to retain competent legal council and forces
the vulture-like junk debt collection companies to do
their homework or face expensive consequences. The
proposed law change rips away that protection, instead
forcing the consumer to prove in court that the debt collection company was willful or intentional rather than
just being lazy in not following the Wisconsin Consumer
Act.
These bills are bad for Wisconsin families that have
fallen on hard times and opens the doors for harassment,
exploitation of senior citizens and at-risk populations
and costly legal actions due to sloppy record keeping on
the part of creditors and debt collectors.
Rather than kowtowing to the debt collection industry,
Wisconsin should stand with other states and force junk
debt collectors to get their ducks in a row before burdening consumers and the courts.
Immigration reform needed to deal with undocumented residents

According to the Pew Research Center,
there are 11.3 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
These people live and work among
us. Many of them work hard, pay taxes,
attend church, start businesses, raise
families and want to live the American
dream.
Like other immigrant populations
who have come before them, they do the
jobs no one else wants the messy jobs
that are essential for agriculture and industry. They work on area dairy farms,
mink ranches, factories and meat packing plants. They work with the hope that
their children will have a chance for a
better life than they had.
Unfortunately, without the magic
piece of paper granting them legal status, they occupy a gray area. They are
subject to being taken advantage of by
unscrupulous employers who know they
have limited options. Because they are
unwilling to contact police, they are targeted by criminals.
While some presidential candidates
have called for high walls and mass deportations of these undocumented workers, the solution rests not in kicking
them out, but in opening doors to grant
them legal residency status and ensuring
them the rights available to all workers.
Immigration reform has been an ongoing debate for generations. As it stands
now, it is a system mired in politics and
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institutional prejudice. Rather than proposing any real reform to include a robust legal resident program, politicians
pander to those who will suffer economically if undocumented immigrants had
full access to the civil rights and protections of any other worker.
Politicians at the national and state
level need to stop calling for walls and instead open doors and build bridges with
reform and guest worker programs.
This is the only viable pragmatic approach. Simply put, Americas economy
depends on the low-wage jobs filled by
these immigrants. The large scale American agriculture and food service industries depend on undocumented workers
who are willing to accept low pay and
hard working conditions in exchange
for a chance for the future. According
to the Pew Center, undocumented workers account for about 5.1 percent of the
U.S. labor force. In the U.S. labor force,
there were 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants either working or looking for
work in 2012.
According to a study by the conservative-leaning American Action Forum,
the economic impact of deporting all
the undocumented residents would be
about $1.5 trillion and take 20 years to accomplish. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy
would permanently shrink by about 6
percent because of the loss of spending
by this group. By comparison, during the
Quote of the Week:
That is the way our policy works. As we do streets, that is what we do.
Medford council president Greg Knight about the citys policy to remove trees and other
items from street right of way as part of road projects. See story on page 3
so-called Great Recession, the nations

economy contracted by 5.1 percent. This
is something no one can afford to allow
happen, least of all rural communities
such as central Wisconsin which need
hard workers to fill jobs and bring renewed life to communities.
America is a nation of immigrants.
From the founding of the original colonies to today, people have come here in
hope of a better life for themselves and
their children. They come seeking opportunity and a chance to work and build a
new life.
The key words there are chance and
work. Both are necessary for success,
for without the willingness to work hard
any opportunity is squandered. Likewise, without that opportunity there will
never be success.
It is time to open the door to opportunity for those willing to work for it.
Members of The Star News editorial board include Publisher Carol OLeary, General Manager Kris
OLeary and News Editor Brian Wilson.
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Brian Wilson
The hill
School update
Medford school board president Dave Fleegel attended Mondays city committee of the whole meeting to give an
update on the schools upcoming referendum and answer questions council members had. The school board is asking voters to approve two referendum questions, the first is for $3.2 million in primarily maintenance projects. The
second question is to spend $975,00 to repair the school pool including new pipes, chemical room and tiling but
not changing the dimensions of the pool. He noted the difference between the fundraising efforts being taken by the
All Sports Booster Club for athletic field improvements and the projects included in the referendum. He explained
the school has been attempting to do a major project each year, but the list of maintenance projects that need to get
done is growing faster than the ability of the district to keep up.
Vox Pop
Here we go again, Medford school board is brain dead
I always have to laugh when I pick up The Star News.

If it werent for all those sports there would be no paper.
The school today plays up those sports more than
they do education. Some of the kids but not all cant
figure out your change when the cash machine is down.
They should think of education instead of all them
sports. That was the way we was brought up to learn
the ABCs not running all over the state and then they
should be in school not all over.
If the people think it is a good thing then they should
pay, not to the rest of us.
The board does not have money to fix things up but
they sure can find money to buy those houses and find
$5,000 they had for a Christmas party for themselves.
Also by the houses in the city limits Im sure was not
just given to them by the owner. They keep wanting
money for things they should have fixed up as they go
round like the rest of us have to do. I am sure the owner
did not give the board the houses either.
They keep spending money as if it comes from trees.

All these years the board did not find money to fix
things up but sure can find the money to do as they see
fit for their own thinking. I guess they dont think of
others.
If you read part of the board referendum that read
Invest to Maintain Your Schools, I had a big laugh at
that one. Why dont they invest instead of spending so
much.
The board voted for themselves to have the power
to buy or sell anything they see fit of school property.
They also voted pay raises for themselves as salaries
$100 for the board president for meetings, $95 for the
clerk, $75 per meeting and $45 for committee meetings
as was written by Jeff Peterson. I bet the most people
dont get that much, but anyway I had a good laugh.
Voters for the referendum better think twice before
voting yes on either.
Eugene Cedzo, Medford.
School corner
School finance and referendum impact

would like to share with
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Tax on a
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9.40
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12.73
1,273
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since they are being comBaird & Co. Inc. has propleted by different compaMarshfield
9.55
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nies and at different times,
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9.67
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our mill rate by .24, or $24
may not be equal from one
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municipality to another.
Owen Withee
9.40
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This is why the state
Rib Lake
10.87
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the district would have up
also computes what is
to five years to borrow the
called an equalized value. The counties, school districts and technical col- funds, and then have three years from the time funds
leges use this equal value of property to distribute, were borrowed to complete the projects. The increase
by the prorated amount of value, their tax levy to the in taxes would result when the funds are borrowed and
different municipalities. The municipalities then con- used.
Jeff Albers, director of business services,
vert and distribute this equalized amount of tax levy
to their residents-by their assessed value. The mill rate Medford Area Public School District
is the amount of tax applied to $1,000 of valuation. I
It was awesome, Dad.

Those were the words my fourth grade son used to describe his experience sledding during recess last week.
There were seven students. It could have been five or
as many as nine. The number varies with each telling.
Rather than sliding down the giant hill individually,
they decided to all link arms and legs and slide down together. The hill, by the way, is located next to the equally
giant pile of snow from the school parking lot.
How cool is that? he asked.
It was really cool, he answered himself in a breathless retelling of the great event. One of the older kids
watching us told me he thought it was really neat to see,
Alex told me. I heard the story in detail as I drove Alex to
school Thursday morning.
We live in an age of
people over-sharing and
posting videos or photos
of every major or minor
milestone moment in
their and their childrens
lives. We seek validation
that other people must
like our special moments
as much as we do. The
number of cameras and
recording devices often
outnumbers the children
at virtually any event
Alex Wilson
from T-ball games to concert recitals. We laugh at
other peoples awkward family pictures and stress about
orchestrating the perfect setting for our own. It takes an
insane amount of work to look casual. The production
quality and effort that goes into even the most seemingly
off-the-cuff home video blows away about 90 percent of
what came out of Hollywood more than 10 years ago.
The great group slide down the school sledding hill
had no such electronic recording of its magnificence.
Perhaps that is what makes it even more special.
An electronic recording of the event would have
shown a jumbled mass of kids sliding perhaps 10 feet
down a small slope.
Instead, the recording of the really cool event is in
the imaginations of those who took part. The participants, reports Alex, all had an awesome time, although
he did feel bad for his classmate, Noah, who accidentally
got a boot over his head.
The story of the sledding hill will live on through the
memories of the children involved. Years from now, they
may tell their children or grandchildren of that one magical day at school when they all slid down together. Memory being what it is, the hill will likely have gotten much
higher and the number of students involved much larger
than an objective observer would have seen at the time.
This slight exaggeration does not make the memory
any less true. Memory is fueled by emotion and imagination. The truth in the tale is how the students decided to
work together and the great fun they had on a cold winter
day.
Years ago, I was in my parents backyard after a snowfall. It was one of those soft fluffy snows that turns every branch and twig into a mountain peak. I was about
my sons age and I remember the beauty of it taking my
breath away and thinking I should run inside to find a
camera and take a picture of it. Seconds later though, a
gust of wind came through the trees and all the snow fell
to the ground. That decades-ago moment is burned in my
memory clearer than any faded print, or misplaced computer file would be. Anytime I want to be amazed at the
beauty, I simply need to close my eyes and remember it.
I can hope Alexs awesome day on the school sledding
hill is just as vivid for him when he tells the story to his
own children.
Brian Wilson is News Editor at The Star News.
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Thursday,
Rib Lake Ice Dippers

Saturday, Jan. 9
Spraying Coach K
Rib Lake High School students got the chance to spray teacher and coach Mark
Krommenacker with whipped cream before his jump into Rib Lake on Saturday.
M&Ms jump
Buy these photos online at www.centralwinews.com
photos by Bryan Wegter
Cassidy Kohls (left) and Sam Butler jump during Saturdays Rib Lake Ice Dippers.
Shawna Annala, not pictured, has already hit the water.
The brave few

Mark Krommenacker (left) and Rickie Staab (middle) make their leaps into Rib Lake.
Right, Kenadi Diedrich is all smiles after jumping with super partner Samantha Rodman. Jumpers raised money for RLHSs Culture of Champions initiative and the scholarship fund.
Ninja Turtles
Brittany Staab (left) and Hope Thums prepare for their icy landing.
Different techniques, same result

Beth Swenson (left) takes the more conventional way into Rib Lake, while Joe Fallos
does a front-flip into the frigid water.
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1, 2016
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Man injured in one-vehicle crash Monday morning

The driver of a Ford Ranger pick-up truck suffered
numerous injuries as a result of a single vehicle crash
Monday morning,
The name of the driver has not been released by the
Taylor County Sheriffs Department.
Deputy Chad Kowalczyk was the first officer on the
scene and responded to the crash site .5 miles south of
Jolly Ave. on Hwy 13 at 11:27 a.m. Monday. According to
Kowalczyk, it appeared the vehicle had been traveling
southbound on STH 13 when it drifted across the centerline and into the northbound lane of traffic. The vehicle continued to travel onto the east shoulder of STH
13 striking mailboxes and then entering the ditch. The
vehicle continued southbound through the ditch for approximately 200 feet at which time it struck a large tree
and came to rest, causing severe damage to the front end.
When Kowalczyk arrived on the scene he recognized
the driver and reported the occupant was semi-conscious
and breathing, laying in the back extended cab area of
the vehicle. The man told officers he was the only occupant and did not remember how the crash occurred, only
that he woke up in the back seat.
Firefighters from the Medford Area Fire Department
arrived on-scene shortly after and worked to extricate
the driver from the vehicle, eventually having to cut the
entire roof off of the vehicle.
The deputy reported that it did not appear that alcohol
was a factor in the crash. Upon my contact with (Redacted) I did not observe anything further that would
indicate that he was under the influence of alcohol or
drugs, Kowalczyk stated in the report.
Kowalczyk later spoke with the driver at the hospital
prior to him being transported by helicopter to Wausau.
He reported that he was informed by the hospital staff
that the man had experienced serious head trauma from
the crash. A final accident report is pending the completion of the investigation.
Severe injuries
Firefighters from the Medford Area Fire Department work together to carry the
injured driver from Mondays crash to a waiting ambulance. He was later transported by helicopter to Aspirus Wausau Hospital. His name has not been released
by law enforcement. According to the deputys report, the driver experienced a
medical issue which caused him to lose control and strike a tree on Hwy 13 just
south of Jolly Ave. (Right) Deputy Harlan Schwartz collects the mail that was scattered from the three mailboxes the motorist struck during the accident.
Jump River Electric to search for new general manager

Board members respond
to patron accusations
thorized a study of those benefits and took

measures to bring wages and benefits of
new hires back into line with national
averages. They did not freeze or reduce
wages of any existing employees. In fact,
the board authorized an across-the-board
2 percent wage increase for those employees.
Despite all that, Wollwert said employees then voted to unionize.
Truver said there is also a petition circulating to remove three (the executive
committee) of the nine board members.
He said the re-election process is the way
to replace existing board members and

hopes that improved efforts to educate
members on JREC decision-making will
increase understanding.
We hope (members) give it serious
thought before signing a removal petition.
If, at election time you believe incumbent
board members need to be replaced, that
is the best time and way to do so.
Jump River Electric Cooperative was
founded in 1937 and provides services to
nearly 9,000 member-owners in six counties of northwestern Wisconsin.
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Ed Wollwert, president of the Jump

River Electric Cooperative, Inc. (JREC)
Board of Directors, has announced that
current general manager Scott Peterson
has requested reassignment from general
manager to chief financial officer, a post
he held in the past for the organization.
Wollwert said a regional/national search
for a new general manager has already
begun.
Peterson, who is leaving his post due to
health reasons, said, I have made great
progress in my recovery, however, my
doctors strongly encouraged a reduction
of stress levels. Therefore, I requested
that the Board of Directors return me to
the CFO position.
Wollwert said he and the board will do
whatever is needed to make the transition smooth and responsive to employees
needs and ensure the optimum management and leadership for member-owners.
In recent months members have questioned a number of existing JREC policies
and on Dec. 11 five members filed a civil
lawsuit in Rusk County against eight of
the board of directors, asking for the reinstatement of Bill van Doorn of Ladysmith
who ran and won a board seat election
for District 5 last fall. Van Doorn was advised in writing by the JREC attorney at
the time of his candidacy that because
he had a sister-in-law employed at JREC
the nepotism policy would be in violation
if he won. Wollwert said that after van
Doorn won the election he subsequently
resigned, but the lawsuit seeks his reinstatement.
The board sought an immediate top-tobottom legal review of the current nepotism policy, and with the advice of legal
counsel reaffirmed Board Policy 30A; a
full explanation of the policy appears in
the January 2016 issue of the Wisconsin
Energy Cooperative News.
Wollwert, who is the District 9 repre-
sentative for the town of Round Lake, said

after a recent influx of requests for information by JREC members the board is examining the internal policy and workflow
for requests for information so they can
expedite the process and make it more understandable for JREC members. Wollwert said it is the goal of the board and management to become more transparent in
their policies, procedures and decisions.
We want members to know they have the
right to access information about their coop and to that end we will work to ensure
information is released and shared timely, including more information on the
JREC website, Wollwert said.
Some of the requests for information
have centered on money paid to the board
members for expenses and compensation, said vice-president Steve Truver of
District 6 who represents the townships
of Lenroot and Spider Lake in Sawyer
County
Board of Directors Secretary Treasurer Phil Kaiser said there have been
increased expenditures due to additionaland in many cases, criticalboard
meetings, mandatory credential programs and educational training endorsed
by national and state cooperative associations, including the Dairyland Power
Cooperative. Kaiser, who represents District 2 (towns of Cleveland, Grover, Jump
River, and Westboro in Taylor County;
Hawkins, Lawrence, and Richland in
Rusk County; and Kennan in Price County), said the Jump River Board has seen a
number of retirements and needs to make
sure new board members receive proper
training and education. This requires
time and travel costs, he said, adding,
The board is scrupulous in its internal
expenditures and all compensation has
been earned.
Wollwert believes its important that
the general membership know that the
JREC has had a long history of providing employees with a wage and benefit
package that by national standards is
considered heavy. In 2015 the board au-
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Not so little recognition

Little Free Library dedicated in
memory of Dave Hemke
honored as Library of Distinction
Library of Distinction
file photo
A Little Free Library built in memory of a former

Medford man was recognized as a Library of Distinction by the organization that promotes literacy and access to books throughout the world.
The Little Free Library recognizing Dave Hemke was
built last year and placed near the Taylor County Education Center by the Taylor County Literacy Council.
This is what the organization had to say about Hemke
and the library dedicated in his memory:
Hemke, a longtime resident of Taylor County, Wisconsin, loved trains. He also loved reading and was a
member of the Taylor County Literacy Council. He lived
a life reflecting the joys and possibility of both, before
passing away at the age of 62. What better way to honor his life and service than with a Little Free Library?
According to his widow, Marla Hemke, He worked on
projects which did something for people...Dave would
be stunned to think people would associate his name

with a free library.
But this isnt your standard little wooden box.
Chuck Prihoda of Medford built a replica of the Milwaukee Road railroad depot thats big enough for several
people to stand in, with a special plaque dedicating this
Little Library to Dave. Train tracks were later added
leading up to the door for extra eye-catching appeal and
the library, along with several others in the county, has
been happily embraced by the community.
A Little Free Library is a take a book, return a book
free book exchange. They come in many shapes and sizes, but the most common version is a small wooden box
of books. Anyone may take a book or bring a book to
share.
Little Free Library book exchanges have a unique,
personal touch. There is an understanding that real
people are sharing their favorite books with their community; Little Libraries have been called mini-town
squares.
According to the groups website, as of January 2016,
there are more than 36,000 registered Little Free Library
book exchanges in all 50 U.S. states and in 70 countries
around the world.
The Little Free Library organization recognized the

railroad-themed library at the Taylor County Education
Center as being a library of distinction. It was installed
by the Taylor County Literacy Council.
NTC extends admissions

hours during January
At Northcentral Technical College (NTC), you dont
have to wait until the fall semester to begin a program
and NTC is extending admissions office hours to help
you get started this spring. Anyone interested in attending college at NTC is encouraged to drop in to NTC any
Saturday during the month of January. NTCs Wausau
campus will be open from 8 a.m. to noon and regional
campuses in Antigo, Medford, Phillips and Spencer will
be open from 8 a.m. 1 p.m.
Admissions staff will be available to answer questions about NTCs 175+ industry-driven programs and
help you enroll in spring courses. You can also apply
for financial aid, complete admissions testing or talk to
a career coach about finding the best program to fit your
unique abilities, interests and skills.
Additionally, NTC is extending admissions hours
at the Wausau, Antigo, Medford, Phillips and Spencer
campuses from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, during the weeks of Jan. 18 and 25. Take the first
step on your educational journey by visiting NTC during extended admissions office hours in January.
Employees recognized
The Melvin Companies held a dinner at the Centennial Community Center, Stetsonville on Dec. 12. During the
event, longevity awards were presented to employees who had reached milestones. Bruce W. Brunner received
recognition for 20 years with the company. John Maurer was honored for 10 years and Dave Lavin was honored for
15 years with the company. Pictured are (l. to r.) Mauer, Brunner, Jim Melvin and Lavin.
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Zacho Sports Center awarded Mercury

Marine Service Award for 7th year
For a seventh consecutive year Mercury Marine has presented Zacho Sports
Center of Chippewa Falls its prestigious
Service Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI)
Award for 2015.
Mercury Marines Service CSI Program measures the satisfaction of consumers after having service work done
on their Mercury outboard or MerCruiser Sterndrive or inboard. Zacho Sports
Center won the Service CSI Award for its
ongoing commitment to providing exemplary customer service, based on the responses of customers who had warranty
work performed at the dealership during
the past year. A total of 120 out of 3,500
North American dealers qualified for the
Service CSI Award for 2015.
Zacho Sports Center was the only dealer in northwest Wisconsin to receive the
award and with a score of 98/100 ranks in
the top 1 percent of all Mercury dealers.
The CSI score for each dealer is measured and monitored by Mercury Marine.
After warranty work has been completed,

Mercury sends out a Service CSI survey
to the consumer, asking him or her to
rate the service received. To be eligible
for the Service CSI Award, a dealer must
maintain a score of 90 or better out of 100
in the Service CSI survey. These surveys
ask consumers to rate their overall service satisfaction with the dealership, rate
their satisfaction with the Service Advisor at the dealership, and also indicate if
they would re-visit the dealership again
in the future
Tracking Service CSI scores is a way
Mercury evaluates the effectiveness of its
individual dealers and of its own policies
and training programs. Dealerships that
score high in Mercurys Service CSI surveys are recognized through the awards
program.
Zacho Sports Center operates a marine
and powersports dealership in Chippewa
Falls and is locally owned and operated by
Damin Zacho and Mike Emberson.
SUMMONS NOTICE
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
CLARK COUNTY
Case No. 15CV181
Secura Insurance Company,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Randi N. Woodrow,
Defendant.
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, To Randi N. Woodrow
named above as Defendant:
You are hereby notified that
the Plaintiff named above has
filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The Complaint
which is attached, states the
nature and basis of the legal action.
Within 40 days of receiving
this Summons, you must respond with a written answer, as
that term is used in Chapter 802
of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the
Complaint. The Court may reject or disregard an answer that
does not follow the requirements
of the Statutes. The answer
must be sent or delivered to the
Court, whose address is Clark
County Courthouse, 517 Court
Street, Room 405, Neillsville, WI
54456, and to Katherine C. T.
Steffe, Plaintiffs attorney, whose
address is 2300 North Mayfair
Road, Suite 745, Milwaukee, WI
53226. You may have an attorney help or represent you.
If you do not provide a proper
answer within 40 days of receiving this Summons, the Court
may grant judgment against you
for the award of money or other
legal action requested in the
Complaint, and you may lose
your right to object to anything
that is or may be incorrect in the
Complaint. A judgment may be
enforced as provided by law. A
judgment awarding money may
become a lien against any real
estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced
by garnishment or seizure of
property.
Dated this 11th day of January, 2016.
Yost & Baill, LLP
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
Secura Insurance Company
/s/ Katherine C. T. Steffe
Katherine C. T. Steffe
State Bar No. 1087035
2300 North Mayfair Road
Suite 745
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Telephone: (414) 259-0600
Facsimile: (414) 259-0610
(1st ins. January 14,
3rd ins. January 28)
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(Informal Administration)
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 16-IN-1
In the Matter of the Estate of
Marian E. Brager.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for informal
administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of
birth of June 16, 1926 and date
of death of November 29, 2015,
was domiciled in Taylor County,
State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of W14452 STH 73,
Lublin, WI 54447.
3. All interested persons
waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a
claim against the decedents estate is April 21, 2016.
5. A claim may be filed at the
Taylor County Courthouse, 224
South Second Street, Medford,
Wisconsin.
/s/ Lindsay Rothmeier
Lindsay Rothmeier, Probate
Registrar
715-748-1435
Date: January 6, 2016
Safety
Convenience
Availability
-Plus-
Good Earnings
on all
Savings, Certificate
of Deposit and
IRA Accounts.
Insured up to $250,000
By FDIC
Time Federal
Savings Bank
Attorney Mary E. Hoel

PO Box 306
Cornell, WI 54732
715-239-6440
2-157445
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15-IN-16
David L. Pope.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
birth of July 31, 1959 and date
of death of November 28, 2015,
State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 506 E. Allman,
Medford, WI 54451.
waived notice.
Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wisconsin.

/s/ Lindsay N. Rothmeier
Lindsay N. Rothmeier, Probate Registrar
Date: December 18, 2015
Attorney
William
A.
Grunewald
128 W. Division Street, P.O.
Box 426
Medford, WI 54451
(715) 748-2211
(1st ins. December 31,
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City of Medford
Application for
Class B Beer License
GAMES ON THE GREEN
d/b/a Games on the Green,
Richard E. Splude, Agent,
makes application to the Common Council of the City of Medford for a Class B Beer License
for the period February 3, 2016
to June 30, 2016 at 118 South
Main Street. Virginia Brost,
City Clerk
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Non-Discrimination Statement
Jump River Electric Cooperative is an equal opportunity provider and employer. If you wish to file a Civil Rights
program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA
Program Discrimination Complaint Form (PDF), found
online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.
html, or at any USDA office, or call (866) 632-9992 to
request the form. You may also write a letter containing
all of the information requested in the form. Send your
completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C.
20250-9410, by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at program.
intake@usda.gov.
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675 E. Broadway
Medford
Phone: (715) 748-2231
The
82nd
Annual
Meeting of the members
of Time Federal Savings
Bank will be held the third
Wednesday of January,
2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the
office of the bank at Medford, Wisconsin. The purpose of the meeting is to
elect two directors and to
transact such other business as may come before
the meeting.
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Notice of Rabies Vaccination

and Dog License Requirements
Pursuant to Section 174.052, Wisconsin Statutes, notice is hereby given to all owners of dogs in Taylor County
that rabies vaccinations and dog licenses are required
under the statutes. Vaccination by a veterinarian against
rabies of all dogs is required (Sec. 95.21) within 30 days
after the dog reaches 4 months of age, and re-vaccinated
before the certificate expires or within three years of the
previous vaccination. Notice is hereby further given that
evidence that the dog is currently immunized against rabies must be presented before a license can be issued.
Penalties
A minimum late fee of $5 shall be assessed the owner
of each dog 5 months of age or over who fails to obtain
a dog license by April 1st of each year, or within 30 days
of acquiring ownership on or before the dog reached licensable age. The minimum late fee may be raised by
municipal action.
Any owner who fails to have a dog vaccinated against
rabies as required by statute may be required to forfeit not
more than $200.50.
2016 dog licenses can be obtained from your local
treasurer.
Bruce P. Strama
Taylor County Clerk
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15 IN 17
Robert A. Wicke.
DOD: December 17, 2015
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
birth of May 29, 1949 and date
of death of December 17, 2015,
State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of W14456 Hooker
Road, Gilman, WI 54433.
waived notice.

Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wisconsin.
/s/ Lindsay N. Rothmeier
Lindsay N. Rothmeier, Probate Registrar
Date: December 30, 2015
Attorney
William
A.
Grunewald
128 W. Division Street, P.O.
Box 426
Medford, WI 54451
(715) 748-2211
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Meeting Notice
The Annual Meeting of the Medford Area Development
Foundation, Inc. will be held Monday afternoon, January,
18, 2016 starting at 3:00 p.m. at the Medford Chamber of
Commerce Meeting Room.
The purpose of the meeting is to elect three directors
and to transact such other business as may come before
the meeting.
Stockholders and all others who are interested in the
economic development of Medford are urged to attend.
A review of the progress of the Foundation will be presented at the meeting.
Jeff Hemer, Secretary
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City of Medford
Voting By Absentee Ballot
Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on Election Day may request to
vote an absentee ballot. A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen, who will be 18 years of age or older on Election
Day, who has resided in the ward or municipality where
he or she wishes to vote for at least 28 consecutive days
before the election. The elector must also be registered in
order to receive an absentee ballot. Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may
be issued.
You must make a request for an absentee ballot in
writing.
Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary
or election or both. You may also submit a written request
in the form of a letter. Your written request must list your
voting address within the municipality where you wish to
vote, the address where the absentee ballot should be
sent, if different, and your signature. You may make application for an absentee ballot by mail or in person.
Making application to receive an
absentee ballot by mail
The deadline for making application to receive an
absentee by mail is 5:00 p.m. on February 11, 2016.
Note: Special absentee voting application provisions
apply to electors who are indefinitely confined to home
or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving
as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact the
municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and
submitting an absentee ballot.
Voting an absentee ballot in person
You may also request and vote an absentee ballot in
the clerks office or other specified location during the
days and hours specified for casting an absentee ballot
in person.
Virginia Brost, Clerk
City of Medford
639 South Second Street
Medford, WI 54451
715-748-4321
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the
clerks office is Februry 1, 2016.
The last day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerks
office is February 12, 2016.
No in-person absentee voting may occur on a weekend or legal holiday.
The municipal clerk will deliver voted ballots returned
on or before Election Day to the proper polling place
or counting location before the polls close on February
16, 2016. Any ballots received after the polls close will
be counted by the board of canvassers if postmarked by
Election Day and received no later than 4:00 p.m. on the
Friday following the election.
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Court proceedings
Taylor County Circuit Court
Trials slated
The following appeared and entered pleas of not

guilty: Travis J. Warner a.k.a. Travis Jay Warner, 26,
Stetsonville, being a party to a crime of burglary-arming
self with a dangerous weapon, being a party to a crime
of theft of movable property-greater than $5,000-$10,000,
being a party to a crime of theft of movable propertygreater than $2,500-$5,000, two counts of being a party to
a crime of theft of movable property-special facts, being
a party to a crime of criminal damage to property, five
counts of being a party to a crime of theft of movable
property-less than $2,500, vehicle operator fleeing or
eluding an officer, and operating while revoked; Brett
A. Schaefer II, 31, Phillips, being a party to a crime of
manufacture/delivery of Schedule I or II narcotics, and
manufacture/delivery of heroin; Brent K. Bowers a.k.a.
Brent K. Bower, 23, Medford, possession of THC-second
or greater offense (repeater), and possession of drug
paraphernalia-repeater; Tara L. Reamer, 32, Medford,
two counts of manufacture/delivery of Schedule IV
drugs, theft of movable property-equal to or less than
$2,500, and practitioner prescribing drugs for own use;
Patricia J. Kraemer, 50, Medford, operating while under
the influence-fifth or sixth offense, and operating with a
prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC)-fifth or sixth offense; Robert W. DeWaide, 26, Wausau, possession with
intent to deliver THC (greater than 200-1,000 grams)-sec-
Disposition reports
ond and subsequent offense, possession with intent to

deliver psilocin or psilocybin (equal to or less than 100
grams)-second and subsequent offense, and possession
of drug paraphernalia.
Forfeitures
Marcos Andrade Bailon, 29, Wausau, pled no contest

to an amended charge of a non-criminal citation for operating after revocation, and forfeited a fine and costs of
$267.50. The original charge had been a criminal charge
of operating after revocation.
Isabella R. Nielsen, 20, Withee, pled no contest to an
amended charge of a non-criminal ordinance violation
of disorderly conduct, and forfeited a fine and costs of
$330.50. The original charge had been a criminal charge
of disorderly conduct.
Michael J. Madison, 57, Stetsonville, pled no contest
to operating while under the influence-third offense. He
was sentenced to serve 190 days in jail and forfeited a
fine and costs of $3,256. Madisons drivers license was
revoked for 30 moths, an ignition interlock device is
to be installed on his vehicle for one year, and he is to
undergo an alcohol assessment. A charge of operating
with a PAC-third offense was dismissed on a prosecutors motion.
Javier Aguirre, 38, Abbotsford, pled no contest to
operating without a valid license-second offense within
three years, and forfeited a fine and costs of $579.
A separate charge of operating a motor vehicle without insurance against Aguirre was dismissed.
Probation ordered
Charges dismissed
The following charges were dismissed on prosecutors motions: James L. Cordes, 60, Marshfield, failure
to keep vehicle under control; Emil T. Roth, 49, Glen
Flora, failure to equip trailer with fender or mud guard.
Deferred prosecution
Eric A. Fliehs, 19, Medford, entered into a deferred
prosecution or sentence agreement for a charge of underage drinking-possession (second offense).
Robert L. Harrison, 30, Medford, pled no contest to

endanger safety through the reckless use of a firearm.
Sentence was withheld and Harrison was placed on probation for three years on the condition he pay costs of
$518 and supervision fees as ordered by the Department
of Corrections (DOC); submits to a DNA sample; undergoes counseling as deemed appropriate by the probationary office; has no contact with the victim; does not
enter any taverns; and undergoes an alcohol and drug
assessment and follows through with any treatment.
Charges of carrying a handgun where alcohol is sold or
consumed, misdemeanor bail jumping, and disorderly
conduct were dismissed but read in.
A separate charge of disorderly conduct against Harrison was dismissed but read in.
Crystal L. Swanson, 35, Westboro, pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine. Sentence was withheld
and Swanson was placed on probation for three years
on the condition she serve six months in jail; pay costs
of $518 and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; submits to a DNA sample; undergoes counseling as deemed
appropriate by the probationary agent; obtains/maintains full-time employment; and complies with an alcohol and drug assessment and follows through with any
treatment recommendations. Charges of possession of
drug paraphernalia to manufacture, compound, convert, produce, or store methamphetamine, five counts
of possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and possession of
THC were dismissed but read in.
Swanson also pled guilty to felony bail jumping and
possession of THC. Sentence was withheld and she was
placed on probation for four years for the bail jumping
charge and one year for the possession of THC charge.
As condition of her probation, Swanson must serve
three months in jail, to run consecutive to time being
served in her other Taylor County case; pay costs of
$761 and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; submit to DNA sample; undergo counseling as deemed appropriate by the probationary agent; and undergo an
alcohol and drug assessment and follow through with
any recommendations. Charges of carrying a concealed
weapon, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, and felony bail
jumping were dismissed but read in.
Swenson pled guilty to a separate charge of felony
bail jumping. She was sentenced to serve 87 days in jail,
must submit to a DNA sample, and forfeited costs of
$518. A charge of possession of drug paraphernalia was
dismissed but read in.
Divorces
A divorce was granted Jan. 4 to the following people:

Nathaniel J. Cavazos, 25, Montpelier, Ohio, and Jamie L. Peterson, 23, Rib Lake. They were married Dec.
4, 2009 in Michigan.
James A. Zak, 62, Stetsonville, and Lori M. Zak, 51,
Medford. They were married June 29, 2010 in Wisconsin.
Forfeitures
Benjamin A. Blume, 18, Medford, pled no contest

to an amended charge of speeding 20-24 mph over the
limit and forfeited $225.70. The original charge had been
speeding 30-34 mph over the limit.
Adam G. Grissman, 25, Medford, pled no contest to
operating after revocation/suspension of registration
and forfeited $175.30. He pled guilty to a second count of
operating after revocation/suspension of registration
and forfeited $175.30.
Lydia C. Rhyner, 17, Rib Lake, pled no contest to an
amended charge of violating the absolute sobriety law.
The original charge had been operating while under the
influence-first offense. She forfeited $389.50, her drivers
license was suspended for three months and she is to
undergo an alcohol assessment. A charge of operating
with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC) equal to
or greater than 0.08 percent and less than 0.15 percentfirst offense was dismissed on a prosecutors motion.
Jason W. Schiltz, 39, Medford, pled no contest to disorderly conduct and forfeited $263.50.
Maxwell T. Wisemiller, 18, New Richmond, pled no
contest to an amended charge of speeding 25-29 mph
over the limit. He forfeited $250.90 and his drivers license was suspended for 15 days. The original charge
had been speeding 35-39 mph over the limit.
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Traffic court
Charges dismissed
A charge of operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC) equal to or greater than 0.15 percentfirst offense against Patrick G. Davis, 25, Westboro, was
dismissed on the courts own motion.
A charge of operating with a PAC equal to or greater
than 0.08 percent and less than 0.15 percent-first offense
against William H. Thomas, 55, Union Grove, was dismissed on the courts own motion.
Deferred prosecution
Garett R. Storch, 17, Medford, made an initial appearance and entered into a deferred prosecution or
sentence agreement for a charge of speeding 11-15 mph
over the limit.
Trials slated
The following made initial appearance and entered

pleas of not guilty: Abel Bautista, 24, Medford, operating without a valid license-third or greater offense within three years; Patrick G. Davis, 25, Westboro, operating without a valid license-first offense; Christopher A.
Hargot, 33, Withee, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit;
Gary L. Hempleman, 47, Thorp, trespass; Crystal L.
Kloth, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit; Kade J. Latz,
23, Sheldon, operating while under the influence-first
offense and operating with a PAC equal to or greater
than 0.15 percent-first offense; Cody M. Medina, 25, Edgar, operating without a valid license-third or greater
offense within three years; Jason J. Ploeckelman, 22,
Medford, operating while revoked; Rachel D. Potacezak,
Taylor County Circuit Court

35, Stanley, hunting deer or bear before or after hours
(less than 30 minutes); Mark D. Shauger, 42, Tomahawk,
displaying a false vehicle registration plate; Tadeusz
Zdanowicz, 58, Linderhurst, Ill., operating while under
the influence-first offense; Eric S. Swiertz, 47, Antigo,
Forfeitures
$1,061: Patrick G. Davis, 25, Westboro, operating

while under the influence-first offense (PAC equal to
or greater than 0.15 percent) (drivers license revoked,
ignition interlock device (IID) installed, alcohol assessment, other sentence).
$1,000: James A. Moen, 54, Medford, operating while
under the influence-first offense (drivers license revoked, IID installed, alcohol assessment).
$886: William H. Thomas, 55, Union Grove, operating
while under the influence-first offense (drivers license
revoked, alcohol assessment).
$389.50: Logan Becker, 27, Owen, failure of operator
to notify police of an accident; Jean M. Czerniak, 53,
Athens, failure of operator to notify police of an accident; Patrick G. Davis, 25, Westboro, failure of operator
to notify police of an accident; David C. Immormino, 38,
Gilman, failure of operator to notify police of an accident.
$343.50: Damon M. Brandner, 40, Medford, place,use
or hunt over illegal bait or feed for bear hunting, bear
dog training or deer hunting.
$266.65: Clayton A. Szydel, 51, Dorchester, hunting
within 50 feet of center of road.
See TRAFFIC COURT on page 13
ACCIDENTS/LOGS
THE STAR NEWS
Accident reports
Two-vehicle accidents
Paula J. Arndt and a vehicle owned

by Kristin E. Verville were involved in
an accident on Jan. 5 at 12:54 p.m. in the
parking lot at Aspirus Medford Hospital, 135 S. Gibson St. in the city of Medford. According to the accident report,
the Arndt vehicle was backing up in the
parking lot when it struck the legally
parked and unoccupied Verville vehicle.
The Arndt vehicle sustained damage to
the driver side rear tail lamp. The Verville vehicle sustained damage to the
rear bumper.
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Jan. 8
at 5:50 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea. According to the accident report, a
vehicle was southbound on Hwy 13 when
a second vehicle ahead of it pulled into
a driveway and attempted a u-turn. The
driver of the second vehicle failed to
yield the right-of-way and was struck by
the first vehicle. The driver of the second vehicle was transported for medical
treatment. The first vehicle sustained
moderate damage to the front. The second vehicle sustained severe damage to
the entire driver side. Both vehicles were
towed from the scene.
Single-vehicle accidents
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Dec.

31 at 9:32 a.m. on private property in the
town of Medford. According to the accident report, a vehicle was eastbound on
Hwy 64 when it left the roadway, struck a
mail box at W6576 Hwy 64 and came to a
stop in the south ditch. The driver stated
he was blinded by the headlights of an
oncoming vehicle and moved toward the
shoulder of the road where snow pulled
the vehicle into the ditch. The vehicle
sustained minor damage to the front
Traffic court
$263.50: Tyler L. Block, 20, Medford,
underage drinking-possession; Steven
M. Brandner, 18, Medford, harassment;
Megan M. Brost, 24, Medford, failure of
operator to notify police of an accident;
David C. Immormino, 38, Gilman, hitand-run to property adjacent to a highway; Denise M. Morschauser, 28, Medford, failure of operator to notify police of
an accident; Myah P. C. Paine, 29, Lublin,
disorderly conduct; Alicia Rowland, 18,
Athens, computer message-permit violation; Lane M. Ruch, 18, Stetsonville, computer message-permit violation.
$225.70: Gerilyn Perronne, 52, Athens,
$217.90: Clayton A. Szydel, 51, Dorchester, discharging a firearm from or across
a highway; Chad A. Weinzatl, 40, Athens, discharging a firearm from/across a
highway.
$200.50: Douglas J. Allen, 32, Medford,
disposing or discharging solid waste on
public or private property-less than 10
gallons; Tonya D. Allen, 34, Medford,
operating while suspended-fourth or
greater offense; Austin J. Altieri, 17, Gilman, truancy-first offense; Joseph E. Eisner Jr., 27, Medford, operating a motor
vehicle without insurance; Zachary K.
Goodwin, 19, Medford, operating without
a valid license-first offense; Michael D.
Hamilton, 19, Rib Lake, disposing or discharging solid waste on public or private
property-less than 10 gallons; Nathan M.
Hanson, 17, Medford, operating without
a valid license-first offense; Edward L.
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Taylor County Law Enforcement

and rear passenger side, and was towed
from the scene. Reduced alertness by the
driver was listed in the report as being a
factor in the accident.
at 8:07 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Little
Black. According to the accident report,
a vehicle was northbound on Hwy 13
when the driver lost control due to road
conditions. The vehicle spun sideways
across the southbound lane of traffic and
into the west ditch where it overturned
and came to a stop on its passenger side.
The vehicle sustained moderate damage
to the front, entire passenger side and
rear, and was towed from the scene.
at 9:29 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the city of Medford. According to the accident report, a
vehicle was approaching the roundabout
at Hwy 13 and Anns Way when the driver lost control due to icy road conditions
and the vehicle slid into a yield sign,
knocking it over. The vehicle sustained
front wheel damage and was towed from
the scene.
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Jan.
8 at 11:06 p.m. at the intersection of CTH
DD and CTH A/Elm Ave. in the town of
Holway. According to the accident report, a vehicle was southbound on CTH
DD when the driver tried to slow down to
turn west onto CTH A. The brakes locked
up and the driver lost control. The vehicle slid through the intersection and into
the east ditch where it rolled onto its top.
There was moderate damage to the entire
vehicle and it was towed from the scene.
Speeding too fast for conditions by the
driver was listed in the report as being a
factor in the accident.
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Jan.
Hanson Jr., 38, Medford, operating a motor vehicle without insurance; Nicolle
M. Hanson, 39, Stetsonville, operating a
motor vehicle without insurance; Jerry
L. Heath, 47, Elk Mound, speeding 16-19
mph over the limit; Dalton J. Hostetler,
22, Marathon, operating while suspended; Diane M. Jensen, 58, Ogema, operating a motor vehicle without insurance;
Debra R. Kallenbach, 56, Medford, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit; Duane R.
Lopze, 23, Medford, operating without a
valid license-first offense; Juan R. Pallares Salazar, 22, Dorchester, operating without a valid license-first offense;
Faith N. Peterson, 31, Medford, operating
a motor vehicle without insurance; Sybil
M. Schuenke, 38, Medford, speeding 16-19
mph over the limit.
$187.90: Megan M. Brost, 24, Medford,
inattentive driving.
$175.30: Lisa L. Brooks, 48, Medford,
speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Adam
G. Grisman, 25, Medford, operating after
revocation/suspension of registration;
Logan J. Hana, 21, Medford, failure to
stop at a stop sign; Nicolle M. Hanson, 39,
Stetsonville, failure to yield the right-ofway from a stop sign; Jordan L. Henke,
18, Medford, non-registration of vehicle;
Joshua W. Vennefsky, 38, Medford, failure to display lighted headlamp and tail
lamp on ATV or UTV; Nevin G. Yoder,
25, Curtiss, speeding 11-15 mph over the
limit.
$162.70: Ryan E. Neubauer, 19, Wausau,
operating with an expired license.
$10 proof of insurance violation: Ryan
E. Neubauer, 19, Wausau.
One-vehicle accident
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Jan. 7 at 6:15
p.m. on Hwy 64 in the town of Browning. According to the accident report, a vehicle
was eastbound on Hwy 64 behind a non-contact vehicle when it applied its brakes.
The driver swerved into the south ditch to avoid a collision. The vehicle overturned
and came to a stop on the passenger side. The non-contact vehicle left the scene. The
vehicle sustained moderate damage to the top, entire driver side and entire passenger
side, and was towed from the scene. Following too close by the driver was listed in the
report as being a factor in the accident.
10 at 7 a.m. on Sawyer Ave. in the town
of Grover. According to the accident report, a vehicle was southbound on Sawyer Ave. negotiating a curve when the
driver lost control on the snow packed
and slippery roadway. The vehicle entered the west ditch and went down a
steep embankment, rolling onto its top.
The driver and occupants of the vehicle
left the scene and did not notify the police about the accident. There was severe
damage to the entire vehicle and it was
towed from the scene. Speeding too fast
for conditions by the driver was listed in
Dispatch log
Medford Police Department
Dec. 28 Accident, 1 Weather Shield
Plaza at 11:45 a.m.; accident, S. Main St.
and E. Broadway Ave. at 11:51 a.m.
Dec. 29 Traffic complaint, 419
Lisa Ln. at 5:43 a.m.; welfare check, 346
S. Main St. at 8:42 a.m.; accident, 642 S.
Whelen Ave. at 10:03 a.m.; lockout, 118
S. Main St. at 2:05 p.m.; lockout, 1010 N.
Eighth St. at 9:10 p.m.
Dec. 30 Welfare check, N. Park
Ave. at 12:41 p.m.; fire alarm, 335 S. Wisconsin Ave. at 2:59 p.m.
Dec. 31 Citizen assist, 140 S. Eighth
St. at 8:35 a.m.; utility problem, 200 block
S. Park Ave. at 10:53 a.m.; accident, 940
S. Whelen Ave. at 11:32 a.m.; commercial
alarm, 630 Jensen Dr. at 1 p.m.; extra patrol, 521 Lemke Ave. at 7:56 p.m.
Jan. 1 Fight, Brass Rail, 507 S.
Eighth St. at 1:48 a.m.; commercial alarm,
135 S. Gibson St. at 11:27 a.m.; lockout, 177
S. Eighth St. at 10:16 p.m.
Jan. 2 Accident, N. Second St. and
E. Broadway Ave. at 10:02 a.m.; ambulance request, 132 S. Seventh St. at 1:21
p.m.; warrant arrest, 224 S. Second St. at
2:07 p.m.; fire alarm, 820 River Dr. at 6:35
p.m.; unsecured premises, 611 North Rd.
at 9:56 p.m.
Jan. 3 Information request, 1010 N.
Eighth St. at 2:21 p.m.; 9-1-1 hang up, 721
Venoske Rd. at 9 p.m.; suspicious activity, 224 S. Second St. at 9:24 p.m.; domes-
the report as being a factor in the accident.
Deer-related accidents
The following deer-related accidents

were reported: Dec. 26 at 5:48 p.m. on
Hwy 73 in the town of Taft. Jan. 6 at 12:46
a.m. on Hwy 102 in the town of Westboro
and at 10:48 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town
of Medford. Jan 7 at 10:16 p.m. on Center
Ave. in the town of Hammel. Jan. 11 at
3:19 a.m. on CTH F in the town of Taft.
Taylor County Law Enforcement

tic disturbance, 267 E. Allman St. at 11:02
p.m.
Rib Lake Police Department

Dec. 28 Animal complaint, 833
Pearl St. at 11:04 a.m.
Taylor County
Sheriffs Department
Dec. 28 Court violation, W7081 Perkinstown Ave. in the town of Medford at
9:35 a.m.; transport, Fond du Lac at 2 p.m.
Dec. 29 Structure fire, Hwy 64 and
Castle Rd. in the town of Medford at 7:35
a.m.; agency assist, N3660 CTH Q in the
town of Medford at 10:56 a.m.; ATF notification, N1761 Hwy 13 in the town of Little
Black at 1:19 p.m.; animal at large, Hwy
73 and CTH G in the town of Aurora at
1:20 p.m.; traffic complaint, Gibson Dr.
and Gravel Rd. in the town of Little Black
at 2:12 p.m.; accident, Hwy 64 and Hwy 73
in the town of Ford at 3:27 p.m.; accident,
Horseshoe Lake Ave. in the town of Chelsea at 3:48 p.m.; accident, Hwy 64 and
CTH D in the town of Hammel at 8:25 p.m.
Dec. 30 Noise complaint, 502 Second St. in the village of Rib Lake at 12:22
a.m.; structure fire, W6666 Elm Ave. in
the town of Little Black at 7:16 a.m.; acci-
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dent, N3803 Hwy 13 in the town of Medford at 12:05 p.m.;
animal at large, W13998 County Line Rd. in the town of
Roosevelt at 12:21 p.m.; citizen assist, W12696 CTH M
in the town of Cleveland at 12:43 p.m.; found property,
N417 CTH C in the town of Deer Creek at 2:30 p.m.; sex
offense in Taylor County at 2:47 p.m.; citizen dispute,
W10177 Hwy 64 in the town of Maplehurst at 5:09 p.m.;
welfare check, 731 S. Front St. in the village of Rib Lake
at 4:31 p.m.
Jan. 31 Transport, Taylor County Jail to Aspirius

Medford Hospital in the city of Medford at 8:50 a.m.; injured animal, CTH E and Perkinstown Ave. in the town
of Hammel at 9:52 a.m.; huber check, N3090 Bauer Dr.
at 10:22 a.m.; ambulance request, N6058 Mikes Dr. in
the town of Pershing at 11:15 a.m.; commercial alarm,
630 Jensen Dr. in the city of Medford at 1 p.m.; accident,
Gibson Dr. and Apple Ave. in the town of Little Black at
1:38 p.m.; 9-1-1 hang up, 16727 Clark Ave., Withee at 2:34
p.m.; warrant arrest, gas station on N. Hwy 13 in the village of Stetsonville at 4:04 p.m.; transport to Marathon
County line at 5:35 p.m.; injury accident, N3721 Castle
Dr. in the town of Medford at 8:15 p.m.; gas drive off,
N8891 Hwy 73 in the town of McKinley at 6:42 p.m.; in-
Milan G. Czarnezki
the USDA as a soil conservation technician from 1957
to 1986 when he retired. He also did carpenter work
for several years. In retirement, he enjoyed his time
working in the woods, maintained a Christmas tree
plantation, enjoyed cooking maple syrup, shing and
bow/gun hunting. He also enjoyed spending time
with his grandchildren and great grandchildren who
brought him much happiness.
He was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic
Church, Medford and the Catholic Knights of Columbus (treasurer). He served on the Taylor Credit Union
board for 32 years. He also served on the boards of
Hope Hospice, Centennial Apartments (past president), original member of the Town & Country Dairy
Breakfast committee, and member of the Association of Retired Conservationists.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by children, Jim (Cas) Czarnezki of Hendersonville, N.C.,
Gary Czarnezki of Medford, John (Nancy) Czarnezki of Rib Lake, Cheryl (John) Bach of Medford, and
Joanne (Perry) Wolf of Athens; 11 grandchildren;
and 11 great-grandchildren. He is further survived by
siblings Dorothy Wesle of Medford and Jack (Arlene)
Czarnezki of Milwaukee; and a sister-in-law, Bernice
Czarnezki of Milwaukee.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in
death by great-grandchildren, Tori Jean Czarnezki,
Ethan Ryan Czarnezki and Aaron John Czarnezki;
brothers Gerald and Vernon Czarnezk; and sisters
Sr. Elaine Czarnezki and Marie Strebig.
For online condolences, please visit hemerfuneralservice.com
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Enid V. Blomberg
1912-2015
Enid Viola Blomberg,

age 103 and longtime resident of Ogema, died Jan.
10, 2016 at Aspirus Nursing and Rehab in Medford
where she had resided
since 2006.
She was born to Emil
and Ellen (Johnson) Carlson on Oct. 5, 1912 at their
home north of Ogema.
She
attended
Larkin
Grade School, Prentice
High School, and Teachers College in Phillips. In
addition, she took correspondence classes from the
Federal School of Art, Minneapolis, and attended
teaching classes at Superior State College.
Prior to marriage, Enid taught at Sunnyside, Norlin, and Prentice High Schools and after, was a substitute in the Ogema and Prentice Schools for many
years. She has always been remembered fondly by
her former students.
On Oct. 26, 1940, Enid was united in marriage to
Henry C. Blomberg at the Methodist Church in Tomahawk. They lived there a short time before moving
back to Ogema and purchasing a home just south of
town. Here they lived the majority of their lives and
raised their three children. In 2002 they moved to
Country Gardens Assisted Living in Medford.
She was a lifetime member of the Ogema Baptist
Church, taught GMG (Girls Missionary Guild), and
attended Ladies Aid. She also was a Lady Lion.
Many summer days were spent at the familys
Stone Lake cottages relaxing and enjoying the beauty
formation request, E. Main St. and S. Eighth Ave. in the

village of Gilman at 6:57 p.m.; deer tag request, N1878
Hwy 13 in the town of Little Black at 7:14 p.m.; accident,
Hwy 64 and CTH Q in the town of Medford at 9:33 p.m.;
9-1-1 hang up, 600 W. Hickory St. in the village of Gilman
at 9:39 p.m. and 11:22 p.m.; deer tag request, CTH G and
CTH M in the town of Cleveland at 10:37 p.m.; fireworks,
Birch Dr. in the town of Molitor at 10:48 p.m.
Obituaries
Edna S. Thornton
1926-2016
Milan G. Czarnezki,
89, Medford, died Sunday,
Jan. 10 at Aspirus Care &
Rehab, Medford where he
had resided for the past
three months, most recently under the care of
Hope Hospice.
Funeral services will
be held at 11 a.m. Friday,
Jan. 15 at Holy Rosary
Catholic Church, Medford with Fr. Phil Juza
and Deacon Joe Stefancin
ofciating. Interment of
his cremated remains will take place at Holy Rosary
Catholic Cemetery, Medford. Visitation will be held
at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Medford from 9:45
a.m. until the time of services on Friday, Jan. 15.
Hemer Funeral Service of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
Milan was born on March 17, 1926 in the town of
Hammel to Emma (Federspiel) and John Czarnezki,
Jr. He attended Cleveland Elementary School, town
of Hammel and was a 1944 graduate of Medford High
School.
He was married on Oct. 2, 1948 at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, Stetsonville, to Lila Mae Retterath
and she survives.
After his education, he worked in the grain elds
in Montana for a period of time and farmed in the
town of Hammel for seven years. He then worked for
of the lake and surroundings.

Enid was a gifted artist who especially loved to
paint the beautiful innocent faces of children. Students, friends, and family members loved Enids talent and enjoyed viewing the varied subjects of her
paintings.
Enid is survived by one son, C. Neil (Joanna), Appleton; two daughters, Susan (Gary) Siebert, Ogema,
Barbara Carroll and friend John Nelson of Medford;
grandchildren Annika (Michael) Graif and their
children Henry and Oren, Minnetonka, Minn., Erik
Blomberg, Minneapolis, Derek (Tammy) Carroll and
son Oliver, Eau Claire; and many nieces and nephews.
Enid was preceded in death by her husband Henry; son-in-law Albert Carroll; sisters Dorothy (Jim)
Bruner, Bernice (Russell) Mattson; and brother, Herbert (Lucille) Carlson.
The family would like to extend a thank you to
the staff at Aspirus Nursing & Rehab for their care
and compassion during Enids last days and a special
thank you to RNs, Shannon and Donna.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. at the Ogema Baptist Church on Saturday, Jan. 16 with Pastor
Rodney Price ofciating. Visitation will be from 9:30
a.m. up to the time of the service. Interment will follow at Hillside Cemetery. Attending pallbearers will
be Gary Siebert, John Nelson, Jim Bruner, David
Mattson, Robert Mattson, and Eugene Carlson.
Memorial donations can be given to the family, for
designation at a later date.
Hemer Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements. For on-line condolences, please visit hemerfuneralservice.com.
Edna S. Thornton, 99, Medford, died Wednesday, Jan.

13 at Aspirus Care & Rehab Center, Medford where she
had resided for the past six years.
A Memorial Mass services are pending with Hemer
Funeral Service, Medford. A complete obituary will be
in next weeks paper.
For online condolences, visit hemerfuneralservice.
com
Vernon Harrenstein
Vernon Edward Harrenstein, 89, of Rib Lake, Wisconsin, formerly of Freeport, Ill., died Tuesday, Jan. 12
in Rib Lake. Services for Vernon will be held at 11 a.m.
Friday, Jan. 15, at Woodland Community Church, with
Pastor Len Robinson officiating. Visitation will be held
at Woodland Community Church from 10 a.m. until the
time of service. A private burial will follow at White
Oak Cemetery in Forreston, Ill.
William P.
Bill Wedeking
1921-2016
William P. Bill Wedeking, Captain AUS

(Ret.) passed away Thursday Jan. 7, 2016 at Aspirus Hospital in Medford.
Bill was born Dec.
15, 1921 in Armstrong
Creek, to William and
Cora (Smith) Wedeking.
He graduated from Goodman High School in 1940.
He married Ottice Nikki Nickerson in Macon,
Ga. on March 28, 1947.
She preceded him in death in 2013.
Bill is survived by his son William Jr. Rocky
(Terri) Wedeking of Fayetteville, N.C.; granddaughter, Tiffany (Tony) Lueck of Prentice; greatgrandchildren, Joshua Lueck and Lindsey Wadcinski; great-great grandson James Lueck; and
son-in-law Dean Johnson of Rice Lake.
He is further preceded in death by his parents,
and daughter Shaunee Johnson.
Bill enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Sept. 3,
1940; and was commissioned 2nd LT Infantry on
Dec. 1, 1942. He attended Glider, Paratroop, Demolition and Ranger School in 1943. He made both
combat jumps on D-Day and Holland as a machine
gun ofcer, 3rd BN, 506 PIR; and was wounded on
D-Day. He was assigned to the 11th Airborne Division and stationed in Hokkaido, Japan from 1946
1947, and was then assigned to Far East Command,
Tokyo, Japan in 1950; Inchon and North Korean
Invasions. Upon his return to the United States,
he became an advisor to the Wisconsin National
Guard from 1951-1954; then was reassigned to Germany and France from 1956-1960. He retired from
the military on December 1, 1961. He was awarded
26 decorations including the Soldiers Medal and
French Legion Honour.
Cremation rites have been accorded, a memorial service will be held at a later date. Burial will
take place at Arlington Cemetery.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib
Lake have been entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.hemerfuneralservice.com
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Richard Dick
Hartman
Grace M. Paul
Richard Dick L. Hartman, 76, of Medford, died on

Thursday, Jan. 7 at Aspirus Care & Rehab in Medford
surrounded by his loving family.
Services were held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13,
at Hemer Funeral Home in Medford with Deacon Joseph Stefancin officiating. Visitation was held from 9
a.m. until time of services on Jan. 13.
For online condolences, visit hemerfuneralservice.
com.
Lisa Poncek
1970-2015
Lisa Marie Poncek, 45, town of Spirit, died at her
home on Thursday, Dec. 31, while under the care of
Flambeau Home Health Care and Hospice.
Cremation has taken place. A celebration of life will
be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the
Westboro VFW Hall. A memorial fund has been established. The Heindl Funeral Home, Prentice is in charge
of the arrangements.
Daniel W. Romanowski
1963-2016
Dorothy V. Scharer, 92,

of Rib Lake, passed away
peacefully in her sleep,
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016
at Country Gardens Assisted Living in Medford,
under the care of Aspirus
Comfort Care and Hospice
Services.
Dorothy was born July
9, 1923 in Monroe, Wisconsin to George and Edith
(Kundert) Koehner. She
graduated from Monroe
High School. She married
Dr. Galen R. Scharer on October 26, 1946 in Davenport, Iowa. He preceded her in death on Aug. 15, 2013.
Dorothy is survived by her children, Debbie
(Mike) Turner of Rib Lake, and Dr. Galen (Annmarie
Gallenberger) Scharer II of Wausau; grandchildren,
Char Ann Sutherlin, Kimberly Lindholm, Dr. Justin
(Tina) Scharer, Dr. Brandon (Christy) Scharer and
Dr. Nathan (Krista) Scharer, and nine great-grandchildren.
She is also preceded in death by her parents, and
two siblings.
When Dorothy was younger, she was proudly employed by Monroe Clinic as their bookkeeper. She
then went on to work with her husband Galen in his
chiropractic clinic in Owen, where she was the ofce receptionist and lab technician. After Docs chi-
ropractic clinic began to ourish, Dorothy was then

able to stay home and raise her two children. She
enjoyed dancing and golng and was the president
at Meadowview Country Club in Owen. She helped
with the Girl Scouts of America. She was a member
and very active in the Altar Guild at St. Katherines
Episcopal Church in Owen. She was very involved in
her childrens and grandchildrens lives, and loved
them dearly.
She was a member of Good Shepherd Catholic
Church, Worthy Matron of The Eastern Star, Twentieth Century Club, PTA in Owen, active member of
the Womens Auxiliary of The Wisconsin Chiropractic Association, The Wisconsin Christmas Tree Association, The Rib Lake Lions Club, and the Owen and
Rib Lake American Legion Womens Auxiliary .
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Jan. 9 at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Rib
Lake. Father Otto Bucher ofciated. Private burial
followed at Lakeview Cemetery in Rib Lake. Visitation was held from 10 a.m. until the time of service.
The family wishes to thank the entire staff of
Country Gardens Assisted Living in Medford and
also Linda with At Home Care, for their extraordinary care, compassion and love they showed for their
mother.
Memorial donations in honor of Dorothy may be
given to her family, for designation at a later date.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake have
been entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.hemerfuneralservice.com
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Paul and he preceded her in death April 9, 1989. Her
second marriage took place Oct. 10, 2010 at Medford
to Richard Clarkson and he survives.
Grace was a lifelong Medford resident. After her
education, she worked at Dake Studio, in 1943 worked
at Heimerls Variety Store and later Hoffmans Ben
Franklin Store for periods of time. She was active
in Boy Scouting activities as a den mother from 1952
to 1965. She enjoyed dancing, camping and spending
time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic
Church, Medford, and was a past member of the Ladies of Holy Rosary.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by
her children, Roger Paul of Hubertus, Bruce Paul of
Stetsonville, Lee (Karen) Paul of Medford and Tammy (Dennis) Frey of Medford; six grandchildren, 10
great-grandchildren, and three step-grandchildren.
She is further survived by a sister, Doris Schmidt of
Wisconsin Rapids.
In addition to her parents and rst husband, she
was preceded in death by brothers and sisters, Arthur and Earl Wegerer, Florence Metroz and Matilda
Jakel; and a daughter-in-law, Ellyn Paul.
For online condolences, please visit hemerfuneralservice.com.
1923-2016
In Loving Memory of
We love you and miss you
Town of Medford resident Grace M. Paul, 90,

died Sunday, Jan. 10 at
Deerview Meadows Assisted Living, Medford
where she had resided for
the past 29 months, most
recently under the care of
Hope Hospice.
Funeral services will
be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 14 at Holy Rosary
Catholic Church, Medford
with Father Phil Juza ofciating. Interment will
take place at Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery, Medford. Visitation will be held at Holy Rosary Catholic
Church, Medford from 9:45 a.m. until the time of services on Jan. 14. Her grandchildren, Chrissy Powell,
Melissa Kauffman, Mike, Marc, Russell and Brandon
Frey will serve as pallbearers.
Hemer Funeral Service of Medford and Rib Lake
assisted the family with arrangements.
Grace was born on Feb. 5, 1925 at Medford to Frank
and Mary (Werhand) Wegerer. She attended Medford
elementary schools and was a 1942 graduate of Medford High School. She was married on Feb.16, 1944
Dorothy V. Scharer
Ginny, Todd, Kristie, Tami, Bruce, Teri, Todd, Tim,

Susan, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
1925-2016
Daniel W. Romanowski,
52 of Stanley, died in a
farming accident on Friday, Jan. 8. He was born
on August 24, 1963 in
Stanley, the son of Joseph Ronald and Judy Susan (Geist) Romanowski.
Dan grew up north of
Stanley and graduated
from Gilman High in
1981. On Aug. 25, 1984 he
was united in marriage
to Barbara Jean Potaczek
at St. Marys Czestochowa Catholic Church.
Dan worked for Olynicks driving truck, hauling milk for Lynn Dairy and was a longtime
farmer. He served on the Town of Taft board, was
a board member of River Country CO-OP, was a
member of the Stanley Jaycees and was a former
winner of the Stanley-Boyd Outstanding Young
farmer of the year award. Dan enjoyed going to
auctions, truck/tractor pulls, hunting, and loved
being with his children and grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Barbara; three children, Dustin (Sheryl) Romanowski
of Thorp, Brian Romanowski and Sarah (Dustin
Westaby) Romanowski both at home; four grandchildren, Lily, Luke, Brantley and Kaysen; his
parents, Ron and Judy Romanowski of Gilman;
his paternal grandmother, Dorothy Baldeschwiler
of Chippewa Falls; and two brothers, Paul (Lisa)
Romanowski of Elk Mound and Peter (Connie) Romanowski of Holmen.
Dan is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Joseph Romanowski and his maternal
grandparents Amelia and Ray Geist.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 13 at Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Gilman, with Father Phil Juza ofciating. Burial followed in the Meadowbrook Cemetery, Gilman. Visitation was held from 4 until 8
p.m. on Tuesday at the Plombon Funeral Home in
Stanley with a 7:30 p.m. rosary. Visitation continued Wednesday at the church in Gilman one hour
prior to services.
Those we love dont go away. They walk beside us

every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near.
So loved, so missed, so very dear.
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Redmen hold off Falcons

second half charge
by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
The Rib Lake Redmen survived a second-half onslaught from the Abbotsford
Falcons en route to a 61-56 Marawood
North boys basketball win Tuesday
night in Rib Lake.
Scoring came easy to the Redmen in
the first half, when they outscored Abbotsford 44-30. Falcons guard Garrett
Rau scored a layup 20 seconds in. Dalton
Strebig put home a reverse layup on the
other end to knot the score. After a Noah
Weinke floater put the Redmen up 4-2
at the 16:52 mark, Rib Lake did not trail
again over the remaining 34-plus minutes.
We came out in a full-court man-toman. We were aggressive on the ball-handler and guys were rotating correctly.
They were in the spots to make plays,
Rib Lake head coach Jason Wild said.
Strebig swiped the ball from Rau and
fired a pass to a sprinting Joe Scheithauer to make it 8-2. Rau answered with a
three. Scheithauer hit a fadeaway two
over Treven Gorst to make it 14-7 and
followed it up with another basket 18 seconds later. Strebig connected on a right
wing three with 12:39 left to put Rib Lake
up 21-7. The Redmen extended their lead
to 27-9 on Nick Eisners two-point jumper. Austin Ewan had the assist.
We played well in the first half and
had good intensity, Strebig said.

It took a timeout from Falcons head
coach Brad Podevels to halt Rib Lakes
run. Gorst put back Raus miss and
scored on an inside feed from Adam
Seefluth on Abbotsfords next two possessions.
After Carson Patrick made a pair of
free throws, Gorst scored off an inbounds
play and then nailed a step-back three
with 6:50 until halftime. Abbotsfords 6-3
post finished with 24 points on eight of 18
shooting. Rau matched his 24 points and
was 10-for-16 from the field.
Seefluth made a right hook and Rau
made a three to pull the Falcons within
six with 4:22 until the half. Scheithauer
ended Abbotsfords 10-point run with a
two. Rib Lakes 6-3 senior led the team
with 16 points and 13 rebounds, completing his seventh double-double in eight
games this season.
Scheithauer blocked Gorsts turnaround attempt and Strebig sank a deep
three-pointer on the other end to make it
36-25.
Rau had the ball tipped out of his
hands by Strebig for another easy layup.
Ewan got on the end of a long outlet pass
for a basket with 25 seconds to go, putting
the Redmen up 44-30. Strebig finished
with a season-high seven steals, dished
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Rib Lakes Austin Zondlo drives past Abbotsfords Adam Seefluth on his way to a
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Henrichs puts finishing

touch on thrilling 39-36 win
by Sports Editor Matt Frey
In control
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Parker Henrichs has the upper hand midway through the first period of
his 195-pound match against Antigos Collin Eldridge and works toward a pin that
clinched the Raiders 39-36 win over the Red Robins Thursday at Raider Hall.
The randomly-picked starting point

for a wrestling dual meet gives anyone in
a teams lineup the chance to be the hero.
On Thursday night at Raider Hall,
that chance landed on the shoulders of
Medford junior Parker Henrichs, and he
delivered.
With his team trailing Antigo 36-33
heading into the 195-pound and final bout
of the meet, Henrichs got taken down in
the opening seconds but quickly recovered and pinned Collin Eldridge at 1:59,
just one second before the first period
ended, to give Medford a key 39-36 Great
Northern Conference win.
The result evened both teams GNC record at 1-1. Medford avenged a narrow 4139 loss to the Red Robins from a year ago.
The Raiders never led the dual meet
until Henrichs got his pin, but it never
felt like they were out of it either. Antigo
took a big step toward securing the team
win in the 170-pound match when Noah
Nicholson stunned Medfords Tanner Peterson by pinning him at the 3:50 mark
to put the Red Robins up 36-27. After giving up the first takedown, Peterson had
seemingly taken over the match, grabbing a leg on two of three well-executed
takedowns to build a 7-3 lead. But in
a split-second where Peterson lost his
leverage just before the second period
ended, Nicholson pounced on a shot, took
him down and got the pin.
However, there were two matches left.
Senior standout Tucker Peterson
wasted no time in the 182-pound match,
pinning Daniil Demchanko in 26 seconds
to pull the Raiders within three and leave
it all up to Henrichs and Eldridge.
After a quick pep talk with head coach
Tran Brooks, Henrichs took care of business.
I was ready to go, Henrichs said. I
knew I could do it and just had to go out
there and wrestle. (Coach) told me to go
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Working OT pays off for boys, leaves girls fit to be tied

The hockey was so exciting at the
Simek Recreation Center on Saturday no
one apparently wanted it to end.
Both the boys and girls games in the
doubleheader between the Medford Raiders and Viroqua co-op teams were deadlocked at 2-2 following regulation. The
girls game stayed tied through eight minutes of overtime, while the Raiders won
the boys game 2:27 into overtime on Jack
Schafers seventh goal of the season.
The win was Medfords fourth of the
season, the programs highest win total
since the 2006-07 team finished 4-18 and
went to the second round of the WIAA
tournament.
I think were closer as a team,
Schafer said after the win. We have a
new coach. He knows the game. Hes really worked with us and I think were all
much more of a team than we were last
year. Our goal is to keep winning games
and try to stay positive.
They played a heck of a game. Both
sides, Medfords first-year head coach
Eric Vach said. It was a good game.
Everybody played a great game. We just
have to stay out of the box. But we killed
penalties. Thats difficult. Thats very
good. Spenser (Scholl) did a heck of a job
in goal.
Scholl had 33 saves in win, including
a handful down the stretch that allowed
the Raiders to even get into overtime.
It was pretty intense, Schafer said.
It couldve went either way, but I definitely think Spenser Scholl kept us in
this game more than we did ourselves.
We owe it all to him.
The teams entered the third period
tied 1-1. Sophomore Payton Nelson had
a big moment 3:22 into the period, whistling a shot past the left arm of Viroqua
goalie Carter Bergdahl and inside the
post to score his first varsity goal. Conrad Bolz had the assist. But at 9:01, Viroquas Sam Berg scooped up a loose puck
near his own blue line, sprinted to the
other end and beat Scholl to tie it.
Things then got dicey for the Raiders.
At 9:56, Jared Rothmeier was called for
slashing and Charlie Branstetter was
called for tripping just 16 seconds later.
For 1:44, Viroqua had a two-man advantage. But the Raiders killed it off fairly
easily, surviving only one threat where
Blackhawk Austin Larson had an open
look, but the puck slid off his stick before
Offensive pressure
he could fire away.

The five-on-three was huge, Vach
said. That was a big one to get through.
We had one earlier too. We fought off penalties all day.
Indeed, Medford killed off 10 of Viroquas 11 power plays. The Raiders piled
up 32 penalty minutes on 12 infractions.
Medford was zero for four on power
plays.
That was just the skill of Klayton
Kree, Dylan (Hraby) and Kyle (Dettmering), Schafer of killing off the five-onthree. They pretty much did it all. They
played it very well.
Actually the players have been doing the work for me, Scholl said of his
work during opponent power plays. I
dont see many shots in the penalty kills.
Theyre doing the work.
Scholl was busy late in regulation.
He made a nice glove save with 2:01 left.
Seconds later, he made a stick save on a
good, low Blackhawk shot and then he
took one off his shoulder. Viroqua ended
regulation on a power play. Scholl made
an easy glove save with three seconds left
to preserve the tie.
You just have to stay calm, Scholl
said of facing those late shots. Thats all
you can hope for. Hopefully you see (the
puck).
Medford was keeping Bergdahl busy
too. He had 16 of his 36 saves in the third
period and added three more in overtime.
But, after Conrad Bolz took a shot
from the blue line, the puck bounced to
Schafers stick and he finished it off.
I saw the puck go out to Conrad Bolz
and he shot it, Schafer said. I didnt
know what was going to happen. I just
saw it and I smacked it and it trickled in.
Really anybody couldve scored.
Speaking of scoring, Nelson wasnt
the only Raider to notch his first goal in
the win. After the teams battled through
a scoreless first period where Medford
outshot Viroqua 10-7, freshman Andrew
Rothmeier gave the hosts a 1-0 lead 5:31
into the second with an assist from Dettmering for his first high school goal. Viroqua answered at 7:35 with a power-play
goal from Nathan Turnipseed, assisted
by Cole Tunks. Viroqua outshot the Raiders 16-8 in the period.
Experience is a big thing, said
Scholl, a junior who is seeing major minutes in goal for the first time this season.
The more games I play I feel like Im getting better every game. Last few years,
Photos by Matt Frey
Medfords Joelle Zenner (8) and Sienna Demulling arent able to get to the puck
before Viroqua goaltender Ivy Shonka during a third-period scrum in front of the net
during Saturdays 2-2 overtime tie.
Victory celebration
Somewhere in the bottom of this pile of Medford Raiders is Jack Schafer, who
scored the winning goal 2:27 into overtime on Saturday afternoon to beat the Viroqua
Blackhawks 3-2 at the Simek Recreation Center.
me and Tyler (Kadlecek) hadnt seen any
ice. But this year, both of us will be getting better as the season goes.
All tied up
Game two of the doubleheader featured the same late drama, but neither of
the girls defenses gave in during the 2-2
overtime tie.
In her first action of the season, senior
Makayla Hanson was rock solid in the
final two periods and the overtime collecting 20 saves. Emily Lybert had eight
saves in the first period for Medford. Viroquas Ivy Shonka did well too, stopping
25 of 27 shots.
Defense was a collective effort for
Medford in the third period when, after
a relatively clean first two periods, the
Raiders were hit with penalty after penalty and played much of the period shorthanded.
But we killed them off, head coach
Chad Demulling said.
It started with an interference call 1:39
into the period, which turned into a fiveon-three 25 seconds later that turned into
two more shorter five-on-threes.
Viroqua, however, never could capitalize and Medford actually outshot the
Blackhawks 13-6 in the period. Neither
goalie budged. Medford put some heavy
pressure on Shonka with about a minute to go but couldnt find the net. Viroqua then broke out with a steal by Alice
Blake, but Hanson made a pad save on
her shot with 40 seconds left.
Hanson and the defense stood up to
some early pressure in the overtime and
finished with five saves in the extra session. Late in the overtime, Medford had
the better of it. Joelle Zenner had a good
shot that sailed high. Elise Southworth
had a good rebound chance and she
took a pass from Sienna Demulling with
space to work right in front, but her shot
zipped wide.
We just couldnt punch it in, Chad
Demulling said of the late flurry. It was
a good play (between Southworth and
Sienna Demulling), definitely. They saw
it. You could see they knew exactly what
they wanted to do. They did it in a couple
of the tournament games (over the holiday in Rhinelander) and scored a goal up
there.
Taylor Adleman put a slap shot on net
after a turnover with 11 seconds left, but

Shonka gloved it. The Raiders called a
timeout tried to go with an extra attacker
on the ensuing face-off, but the execution didnt go as planned and the Raiders
didnt get another shot.
Zenner got the games first goal 6:37
in. The Raiders got the puck away from
the boards, centering it to the sophomore
who went top shelf to bury the puck in
the net. Kaitlin Gradberg and Mikayla
Kelz had the assists. At 11:55, Blake broke
away from the pack after a face-off in Viroquas defensive zone. She scored on the
breakaway.
In the second period, Hanson was
screened on one of the first shots that
was thrown at her. Maia Barendregts
shot went right by Hansons shoulder for
the goal at 1:30, assisted by Taylor Menzynski.
Sienna Demulling nearly copied
Blakes goal, picking up the loose puck,
racing to the other end and beating
Shonka to tie it at 2-2 at 3:36. Thats where
it stayed the rest of the way.
One good thing was we saw a lot of
face-off plays work good tonight, Chad
Demulling said. We got some shots on
net right off the face-off.
Were definitely in the right spot. We
just have to get some more Ws.
Pool
Wednesday Night League
Cindys Bar I, 46 wins; Gad Bar, 43; Thirsty
Choppers, 41; Cindys Bar II, 41; PBRs Lounge
Around I, 38; PBRs Lounge Around II, 35; Kountry
Korners, 34; Bogeys, 33; VFW II, 31; VFW I, 29;
A&E, 27, Thirsty Moose, 24; Deer Trail, 10.
Jan. 6: VFW I 6, Kountry Korner 3; Lounge Around
I 6, Bogeys 3; Cindys I 6, Lounge Around II
3; Thirsty Choppers 7, Cindys Bar II 2; Thirsty
Moose 8, A&E 1; Gad 7, Deer Trail 2; VFW II, bye.
Medford Womens League
Hacienda, 42 games won, 63 games played;
Cindys, 42, 63; PBRs Lounge Around, 32, 72;
Gad, 36, 72; Thirsty Moose, 32, 72; Bogeys I, 31,
72; Bogeys II, 28, 72.
Jan. 7: Hacienda 5, Lounge Around 4; Gad 5,
Bogeys II 4; Bogeys I 5, Thirsty Moose 4; Cindys,
bye.
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Redmen Tauer over Midgets

Scheithauers 3 lifts Rib Lake to OT win
Rib Lakes Casey Scheithauer sank a
three with 12.5 seconds left in overtime,
the game-clinching basket in the Redmens 43-40 victory over the Butternut
Midgets in a non-conference girls basketball game Monday night.
With the score knotted at 40, Gabby
McCorisons runner glanced off the backboard. Rib Lake sent the ball long up the
left sideline to a sprinting Scheithauer.
I was thinking, oh my god I, I hope
this goes in. Our rebounding was not
spectacular tonight but if I make it we
go ahead, Scheithauer said. The senior
guard scored a season-high five points.
She entered the game averaging only
1.2 ppg and was shooting just .188 from
three-point range.
That was clutch. It was a good moment for Casey, Rib Lake head coach
Mike Wudi said.
Rib Lake got key contributions out of
another surprise player. Freshman Raejana Wright, making her varsity debut
with senior Regan Dobbs out injured,
had four points, three rebounds and
three blocks in just under a half of playing time.
We havent had a lot of time to prepare for playing without Regan. Raejana
played very solid. She got some key rebounds and bothered some people in the
paint. It was a nice game for a freshman
who was nervous, who we talked to at
noon today about, you know, wed like
to have you suit up and be available,
Wudi said.
McCorison led all scorers with 20
points. Butternuts star sophomore added five rebounds, two assists and a block
and steal and is averaging 17.9 ppg. Her
free throw gave the Midgets a 37-35 lead
with 2:33 left in the second.
Hailey Wudi and Katie Cardey both
rimmed out threes in the final 1:14. McCorison went back to the line with 25 seconds left, but missed the front end of the
one-and-one. The Redmen raced back the
other way and Jasmine Fitzl sent a pass
to Cardey along the baseline. Cardey took
a shot but was fouled. The sophomore
made both shots, tying the game at 37.
Wright won the overtime tip for Rib
Lake, but their possession ended on a
Cardey miss. McCorison put Butternut
up 39-37 on a slashing drive. Fitzl answered with a right wing three, her second of the game, with 2:16 to play. A McCorison free throw tied it at 40.
To force overtime, the Redmen had
to rally from a 36-31 deficit with six minutes left in the second half. Cardey intercepted Taylar Bortzs pass for Chelsea
Wegner and took it the distance for a layup. Wright caught a pass from Mariah
Thums in the high post, turned and split
two Midgets defenders on her way to a
two-point basket and foul, though she
missed the free shot.
We turned the ball over way too
many times in the first half, but were
much better in the second. To be behind
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Witt-Birn stays unbeaten;

girls get big one at Antigo
In the midst of an important stretch
of Great Northern Conference games,
the Medford girls basketball team took
a tough non-conference test on Tuesday
and was humbled with a 78-36 loss at Wittenberg-Birnamwood.
The Chargers, ranked eighth in this
weeks Associated Press Division 3 state
poll, put the game away with a 40-8 second-half blitz. Medford hung around in
the first half, staying within 38-28 at the
half. But Wittenberg-Birnamwood delivered the knockout punch in the second
half to improve to 12-0.
We stuck with them in the first half,
Medford head coach Scott Wildberg said.
We had a good idea of what they would
present to us and that helped us slow
them down. In the first half, we broke
their press decently and got good shots.
We had some shots fall from the outside.
In the second half, Wildberg felt Medford got impatient offensively, leading
to less-than-ideal shot selection. A few
Raiders turnovers and better offensive
execution by the Chargers all led to the
lopsided last 18 minutes.
We took some quick shots, he said.
We were taking the first good look and
when you do that, if you dont make
them, you dont get opportunities for second shots because the defense is recovering into the lane and the offense is not.
They broke us down defensively,
Wildberg added. We knew what they
were doing with their dribble drive offense. We talked about it in pre-game
and at halftime about how we needed to
execute our game plan. But they did a
good job of beating us on the angles and
getting to the hoop. It was nothing different or special. They hit a few perimeter
shots on us too in the second half. They
did what we needed to do more of. They
worked their offense longer and just
broke us down.
The Raiders hit five three-point shots
in the first half to stay close. Hailee
Clausnitzer hit a pair to score her six
points. Jenice Clausnitzer had seven of
her team-high 10 points in the first half,
including a three ball. Molly Carstensen
had five of her eight points in the half,
including a triple. Maggie Bakers lone
bucket also was a first-half three.
But all the Raiders mustered after
half was a three-pointer from Jenice
Clausnitzer, three more points from
Carstensen and a Lakyn Kummer hoop
to give her four points for the night. Sophia Pernsteiner had three points and
Lainey Brunner added two in the first
half.
GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCE

GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Mosinee
4
1
9
4
Antigo
4
1
7
6
Lakeland
3
2
8
4
Medford
3
2
5
5
Rhinelander
3
3
5
8
Northland Pines
1
4
6
6
Tomahawk
0
5
0
12
Jan. 7: Mosinee 53, Rhinelander 48; Lakeland 62,
Northland Pines 49; Elcho 49, Tomahawk 45.
Jan. 8: Medford 53, Antigo 48; Milwaukee Vincent 46, Rhinelander 30; Lakeland 56, Prentice 46.
Jan. 12: Wittenberg-Birnam. 78, Medford 36;
Antigo 59, Lakeland 34; Mosinee 68, Northland
Pines 58; Rhinelander 56, Tomahawk 14.
Jan. 15: Lakeland at Medford, Mosinee at
Antigo, Tomahawk at Northland Pines.
Jan. 18: Colby at Medford, Rhinelander at
Antigo.
Jan. 19: Wausau West at Lakeland, Wausau East
at Antigo.
Jan. 21: Mosinee at Medford, Rhinelander at
Northland Pines, Tomahawk at Antigo.
Kirsten Clark led the Chargers, hitting

her season average with 16 points, 11 of
which came in the first half. Taylor Nier
had 14, including eight in the second half.
Siri Zeinert also hit her average, scoring
13, 11 of which came after halftime.
They are a good team, no doubt about
it, Wildberg said. Theyre very athletic.
Medford, now 5-5, turns its focus back
to GNC play on Friday with a key home
game against Lakeland. The teams come
into the final round of first-round play
with identical 3-2 league records. Lakeland was pounded 59-34 at home by Antigo on Tuesday.
After a non-conference home game
with Colby on Monday, the Raiders host
Mosinee on Jan. 21 to start the second
tour through the GNC. Mosinee and
Antigo sit atop the GNC at 4-1. Mosinee
edged Medford in overtime 60-54 back on
Dec. 4.
Big GNC win
The Raiders put themselves right in

the thick of the Great Northern Conference race with a big 53-48 win at Antigo
on Friday night. The Raiders took the
lead early and never let it go to knock off
what had been the last team without a
conference loss.
It was one we had to win, Wildberg
said. Now were a little closer to the top
of the mountain.
Carstensen gave the Raiders a huge
offensive lift, scoring a career-high 18
points. Kummer, added 13 points and
Tori Lammar hit double figures with 10.
Carstensen entered the game averaging
4.1 points per game.
Molly had a real standout game, Wildberg said.
She hit a couple of threes.
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saying, who the heck is
that? There was one play
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or getting rebounds at big times. She had

a good all-around game.
Medford needed their offensive contributions as Medfords two leading scorers
were held in check. Antigo held Jenice
Clausnitzer, who had been on a recent
tear, to five points. Hailee Clausnitzer,
battling an injured wrist was held scoreless.
We were without Cassandra Meyer,
who was coming off a big game and that
hurt us a little bit in our rotation, and
Hailee hurt her wrist, Wildberg said.
We had girls like Molly step up. That
was huge. Thats why its so important
for everyone to be a threat on the floor
and why we run an offense where everyone can contribute.
Carstensen hit both of her threes and
had nine points in the first half, which
ended with Medford leading 24-21. Lammar had five early points and Kummer
had four. They offset a formidable onetwo punch from Antigos Hannah Zenkovich and Laurissa Belott, who had 10
and nine points respectively at the half.
Belott finished with 19 points and Zenkovich scored 15.
They like to use ball screens and look
for the roller, and theyll down screen
on the weak side, hoping to pop shooter
open for a jump shot, Wildberg said.
They hurt us a little bit with the down
screens. They snarled things up with the
screen and would pop the shooter out to
the elbow or the top of the key. We got

that corrected somewhat as the game
went on. We did know that going in thats
what they like to do.
Wildberg said, to Antigos credit, the
Red Robins hit the shots when they were
open. But once Medford did a better job
of contesting those shots, the Robins
struggled.
I think we started to force them into
some bad shot selections, and I think that
shot down their percentage, he said.
In the second half, Lammar hit a key
three-pointer, Carstensen hit four shots
from the field and Kummer hit three
shots and all three of her free throws to
help slam the door.
Baker had a first-half three-pointer for
her three points. Pernsteiner and Lainey
each added two points in the second half.
I think we led by as many as eight
points, Wildberg said. They made
some runs and got it to three or so, but
wed always answer them whenever
theyd make a run. We showed that mental toughness weve been talking about
relentlessly. It shone through a little bit
in this game.
Weve told the girls, they have the
tools. We know they have the ability to
beat anybody in this conference. They
just have to stay mentally tough, believe
and keep working hard. Stay strong
within the system.
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Taking down Hodags too tall

of a task Friday for Raiders
This wasnt one of those cases where
statistics can be misleading.
The Rhinelander Hodags and Medford
Raiders both took 49 shots from the field
in Fridays Great Northern Conference
basketball contest at Raider Hall. The
Hodags made 24, while the Raiders made
14. The Hodags also outrebounded Medford 35-21 and those numbers basically
told the story in Rhinelanders 56-37 win.
Rhinelander used its size advantage
well, playing patiently on offense and
pounding it inside mainly to 6-5 sophomore Owen White who scored 19 points
and extending its zone defense to give
Medford limited room to move in its halfcourt offense.
While Medford forced 11 turnovers,
the Raiders never got the tempo they
wanted while falling to 0-3 in the GNC
and 5-3 overall.
They played their pace, Medford
head coach Ryan Brown said. We didnt
want to rush versus the 2-3. We wanted
to make sure we got a good shot. They do
such a good job of extending that it really
led to some long offensive possessions. In
that situation, we just need to find a way
to execute.
Were getting the right guys to
shoot, Brown added. I feel like theyre
good shots. Rhinelander did a good job
of contesting everything and holding us
to one shot. I thought we fought in there.
We fought for some offensive rebounds.
With a team like that, you have to find
a way to get every rebound you can and
every loose ball.
Medford was just two of 19 from threepoint range and those makes came on
back-to-back possessions in the first
half, sparking the Raiders best run of
the game. Rhinelander, on the other
hand, was six of 13 from downtown, led
by a four-of-seven outing from senior
guard Brandon Reinthaler, who added 15
points for the Hodags, who improved to
3-1 in the GNC and 5-3 overall.
Medfords cold start from the field and
Rhinelanders methodical but successful
approach led to a 23-6 lead for the visitors
through the first 15 minutes. Cameron
Wenzel and Garrett Strebig sank the
successive three-pointers to finally give
Medford some life. A three-point play by
Osy Ekwueme with 7.7 seconds left kept
Medford within 25-16 at halftime.
The Raiders got within eight on three
occasions in the first nine minutes of the
second half. Ekwueme hit the shot that
got them there on all three occasions,
the last of them being a three-point play
with 9:38 to go that made it 37-29. White
countered inside for the Hodags. Ben
Meier made one of two free throws with
7:44 left to make it 39-30, but Reinthalers
three-pointer rattled out and back in and
White scored on a putback to make it 4430 with 6:35 left.
Ekwueme scored with a baseline
drive, but Eric Tracy scored in the lane
and Bryce Young sank a three-pointer
from the left side off a White assist to put
it away at 49-32.
Ekwueme had a strong night, slashing
his way to 19 points on seven-of-12 shooting from the field. The Raiders were just
12 of 30 from two-point range and werent
sharp at the free throw line either, making seven of 14. Ekwueme also had seven
rebounds, five steals and four assists.
Brown expects his guys will break out
from the outside.
Theyre too good of shooters, he
said. They shoot good in practice. I
think it will definitely come around for
them. We just need to keep working on

BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Mosinee
4
0
8
3
Rhinelander
3
1
6
3
Lakeland
2
1
8
3
Antigo
2
2
7
3
Tomahawk
1
2
6
4
Medford
0
3
5
3
Northland Pines
0
3
3
6
Jan. 8: Rhinelander 56, Medford 37; Mosinee
79, Lakeland 69; Antigo 65, Tomahawk 33.
Jan. 11: Antigo 71, Wittenberg-Birnamwood 55.
Jan. 12: Rhinelander 53, Wisconsin Rapids 40.
Jan. 14: Medford at Antigo, Tomahawk at
Lakeland, Mosinee at Northland Pines.
Jan. 15: Wausau West at Rhinelander.
Jan. 16: Rice Lake at Medford, Lakeland at
D.C. Everest.
Jan. 19: Lakeland at Medford, Antigo at
Rhinelander, Northland Pines at Tomahawk,
Mosinee at Nekoosa.
getting those open shots. Tonight we

werent able to get a lot inside. We have
to find ways to work inside-out, either
with the drive or the pass.
Jacob Sullivan had six points for Medford. Strebig and Wenzel had just three
apiece. Meier, Garrett Sommer and Sam
Hallgren had two points. Wenzel had
four rebounds. Meier blocked four shots.
Reinthaler completed a double-double
with 12 rebounds. White had seven rebounds for Rhinelander, including four
on the offensive end, and he had four assists. Tracy had five assists.
They just did a good job with their
interior passing, Brown said. Even the
times we came and doubled, (Whites)
big enough to rise up over the top or
pass over the top. I was proud a couple
of times wed have our trap there and
then we scrambled out of it well, but then
theyd re-post him and its hard when the
guys got 6 inches on you.
Medford starts a tough six-day stretch
on Thursday with a trip to Antigo. Rice
Lake is in for an intriguing non-conference game on Saturday that tips at 3 p.m.
Medford hosts a strong Lakeland squad
in GNC play on Tuesday. The GNC games
tip at 7:15 p.m.
We just have to keep working,
Brown said. Its not about where we are
now, its about the end of the year.
Cut off
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Jacob Sullivan stops Rhinelander guard Reeve Craig from dribbling right
with some backcourt pressure and forces Craig to cross over to his left hand during the
first half of Fridays 56-37 loss to the Hodags at Raider Hall.
Pirates boys drop

ninth straight
Walker Wuethrich scored 19 points
and the Greenwood Indians picked up
their first Eastern Cloverbelt boys basketball win, beating the Gilman Pirates
61-36 on Friday in Greenwood.
Both sides entered Fridays game winless in East play. The Indians win pushes
them into a tie with also 1-6 Granton. Gilman is alone at the bottom of the league
at 0-8 and falls to 0-9 overall.
Greenwoods overall record fell to
1-9 after a 59-52 loss to Cornell on Saturday. The Indians host Granton tonight,
Thursday, Jan. 14, with the winner taking sole possession of seventh place in
the East. The Pirates return to the court
Monday, Jan. 18, when they host Cornell at 7:15 p.m., the second game in a
non-conference girls-boys doubleheader
against the Chiefs. They begin the second half of their conference schedule on
Tuesday against Neillsville, scheduled
for 7:30 p.m.
Travis Lato scored a season-high 14
No room to work
Photo by Dean Lesar, Tribune Record Gleaner
Greenwoods Devin Toburen tightens up his defense on Roman Konsella after Konsella picked up his dribble during Fridays boys basketball game in Greenwood.
points to lead Gilman. Wuethrich made
three three-pointers, helping the Indians build a 26-10 lead at the break. Zach
Zimbauer had seven points in the first
and Devin Toburen added a three. Lato
scored four.
Gilmans offense got going in the second half. Lato made a pair of two-point
field goals and was perfect at the line, going six-for-six. Roman Konsella nailed a
three and scored seven overall. Emmit
Sherfield made three free throws and
added a two-pointer. Zach Sonnentag finished with six points.

For the first time this year, Chanse
Rosemeyer (5.2 ppg) was held scoreless.
The Pirates found some success getting
to the line, finishing 13 of 21 (.619) at the
free throw line, their second-best performance by percentage this season.
Trevor Serocki led Greenwood in the
second half with 11 points. He scored 14
in total. Cole Lucas totaled nine points.
Toburen scored seven.
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High placements for several wrestlers at Cadott Invite

Led by perfect days from Tucker Peterson, Josh Brooks and Kolten Hanson,
the Medford wrestlers nearly won Saturdays Cadott Invitational, while CornellGilman-Lake Holcombe heavyweight
Takoda Lees championship led the Wolfpack to a sixth-place finish in the 10-team
tournament.
Medford, filling a season-high 13 of
the 14 weight classes, scored 261.5 points
to fall just 5.5 points behind tournament champion Melrose-Mindoro/GaleEttrick-Trempealeau, a team Medford
will see twice more this season at Arcadia and at the WIAA Division 2 regional
meet in Neillsville. The Raiders were six
points better than third-place finisher
Glenwood City and also got top-three finishes from juniors Preston Carlson and
Tanner Peterson.
Cornell-Gilman-Lake
Holcombe
scored 137.5 points to beat Whitehall
(126), Thorp (57), Bruce (46.5) and Eau
Claire Regis (30). Joining Lee among
their most successful wrestlers were
second-place finishers Matt Kostka and
Sam Pickerign and third-place finisher
Zach Person.
Host Cadott finished fourth in the
team standings with 213 points. Chippewa Falls scored 172.
Raider results
Medfords big three improved to a
combined 55-1 for the season with their
undefeated days.
Hanson improved to 22-0 with five
solid wins at 160 pounds. He had no trouble in his pool, getting pins over Sonny
Nyguard of Whitehall (44 seconds), John
Pagnotta of Glenwood City (55 seconds),
Daytona Hera of Thorp (56 seconds) and
Dominick Grimm of Cadott (1:36). He met
Jasper Dunn of Whitehall (15-8) in the
championship and was a 6-3 winner.
Brooks improved to 12-0 by dominating the six-man bracket at 120 pounds.
His key match was his last one. He outscored Cadotts Bailey Gillett (19-8) by a
score of 8-2. Earlier, he pinned MJ Poulus of Whitehall (54 seconds), Brad Kessler of Glenwood City (1:38) and Quade
Webster of Thorp (1:14) and added a 17-1
technical fall over Dylan Schimmel of
Chippewa Falls.
Tucker Peterson stands at 22-1 after he
cruised through the five-man 182-pound
bracket. His four wins all came by pin.
He stuck Isaac Solberg of Chippewa Falls
in 1:07 to clinch the title. He also beat
Austin Powell of Whitehall (32 seconds),
Ethan Haider of Cadott (52 seconds) and
Dylan Gappa of Melrose-Mindoro/G-E-T
(26 seconds).
Carlson went 4-0 in his pool in the
138-pound weight class to earn a championship matchup with Branden Pederson of Cadott. Pederson improved to
14-8 with a hard-fought 5-1 win. Carlson,
now 11-6, won a tight 2-1 decision over
Kole Smith of Glenwood City earlier in
the day and recorded pins over Spencer
Keeble of Bruce (58 seconds), Lucas Stephens of Whitehall (54 seconds) and Robert Fasbender of Cornell-Gilman-Lake
Holcombe (30 seconds) en route to second
place.
Tanner Peterson made quick work of
Melrose-Mindoro/G-E-Ts Rion Windsor
in the third-place match at 170 pounds.
Peterson, now 13-7, pinned him in just 16
seconds to cap a day where he won three
of his four matches. In his pool, he pinned
Austin Johnson of Whitehall (1:27) and
Andrew Derks of Cadott (42 seconds) to
set up a bout with Jared Woodhull to determine who went to the championship
match. Woodhull won 11-7.
Andy Poetzl lost his opening match
at 126 pounds by pin in 5:02 to eventual
champion Andrew Gunderson of Cadott,

but he didnt lose again. Pins over Manuel Granado of Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe (1:40), Jacob Gardner of Whitehall
(48 seconds) and Mason Lewis of Regis
(1:46) sent Poetzl to the third-place match
with Glenwood Citys Carson Strong,
which Strong won 7-2. Parker Henrichs,
two days after winning the clinching
match in a dual meet against Antigo, finished fourth in a five-man bracket at 195
pounds. He started his day with a pin in
3:31 over Kenny Thorn of Whitehall and
finished 1-3.
Cody Church, George Hinderliter,
Alex Davis, Jacob Thums and Kenny
Krug placed fifth in their weight classes.
Davis got his first win of the year at
152 pounds, pinning Whitehalls Jay
Anderson in 37 seconds in his opening
match. Hinderliter, at 132 pounds, won
two matches in his pool, pinning Joe
Obermueller of Glenwood City (4:56) and
Preston Olcott of Whitehall (1:31). He
pinned Whitehalls Justin Rodriguez in
5:10 in the fifth-place match.
Krug lost by pin twice, earned a forfeit
win over Thorps Mitchel Redfern and
finished his day with a pin in 51 seconds
over Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombes
Dakota Lepak in the heavyweight bracket. Thums earned a pair of pins at 220
pounds, getting Cornell-Gilman-Lake
Holcombes JC Shackleton in 57 seconds
and CJ Spath of Cadott in 1:48. He was a
forfeit winner over Jake Gilbertson of
Regis in the fifth-place match.
At 113 pounds, Church got one win,
pinning Tim Steven of Whitehall in 1:03.
Wolfpack wins
For the Wolfpack, Lee continued his
impressive season with three first-period pins before he stuck Austin Knopps
of Whitehall, who is 20-2, in 2:31 in the
heavyweight championship. Knopps was
a state qualifier last year at 220 pounds.
Lee, who is 23-1, pinned Redfern in 28
seconds, Whitehalls Alex Greenwold
in 1:40 and Krug in 1:17 in pool competi-
tion. Lepak was sixth in the weight class,

gaining a victory by injury default over
Cadotts Joesef Hite.
Kostka improved to 21-3 by taking
second in the thin 195-pound bracket. He
pinned Henrichs in 1:38, Thorn in 1:20
and Sam Jensen of Melrose-Mindoro/GE-T before falling 5-2 to Glenwood Citys
Hogan Chouinard (23-3) in the match
that determined the title.
Pickerigns second-place finish came
at 106 pounds. The freshman pinned all
three of his pool opponents, Brady Weyandt of Chippewa Falls (2:23), Dan Taylor of Glenwood City (1:15) and Shane
Chady of Cadott (3:06). Pickerign fell
to 19-2 when he was pinned 45 seconds
into overtime of an exciting championship match with Melrose-Mindoro/G-ETs Jack Marley, who is 21-3. The Wolfpacks Wyatt Willmar also competed at
106 pounds. He finished seventh, earning
an 11-2 major decision over Chady in the
seventh-place match.
Person shook off a loss in his first
132-pound match, a 5-1 defeat Glenwood
Citys Marcus Ullom (23-3), to win the
rest of his matches. He took an 11-0 major
decision over Hinderliter, pinned Olcott
in 1:32 and beat Obermueller 7-0. Person,
now 14-10, won the third-place match by
forfeit over Elliott Morning of Regis.
Granado (13-10) took sixth at 126
pounds, highlighted by pins of Mason
Lewis from Regis (1:50) and Gardner
(1:37). Chase Bergeron of Chippewa
Falls pinned him in 4:38 in the fifth-place
match. Fasbender finished 6th at 138
pounds, notching a 16-1 technical fall
over Stephens and a pin in 1:42 over
Keeble. Matt Pomietlo of Chippewa Falls
pinned Fasbender in 42 seconds in the
fifth-place match.
Shackleton was seventh at 220 pounds
getting a pin in 1:01 over Spath and a
pin in 1:03 over Glenwood Citys Collin
Schone in the seventh-place bout. Cooper Boehm was seventh at 126 pounds,
earning a forfeit over Lewis in his final match. Alex Gehrt was ninth at 160
Wrestling win puts team at 1-1
Tucker Peterson
182 pounds
Takoda Lee
285 pounds
Kolten Hanson
160 pounds
Josh Brooks
120 pounds
pounds, pinning Nyguard in 27 seconds

in his last match.
The tournament featured three teams
the Wolfpack will see in the WIAA Division 3 Cadott regional next month the
host Hornets, Glenwood City and Regis.
Two nights earlier in an East Lakeland Conference double-dual meet at
Shell Lake, the Wolfpack went 1-1. They
beat Bruce 30-14 in a meet that featured
just three contested matches. Kostka
bumped up to 220 pounds and lost 5-4
to Cordell Ralston. Fasbender pinned
Keeble and Gehrt lost by technical fall to
Walker Gulbruff.
Shell Lake knocked off the Wolfpack
48-18.
The boys did not wrestle to their
potential as a team against Shell Lake,
head coach Greg Sonnentag said. We
made too many major mistakes leading
not only to loss decisions but pin falls.
The boys wrestled hard but we have to
limit those mistakes if we want to beat
good teams.

out there and just do what I do. This is
my sport, this is what we work for. I went
out there and did that.
I told him, this is what we wrestle
for, just go out there and have fun,
Brooks said.
Henrichs reversed Eldridge to tie it
at 2-2, but a penalty point gave Eldridge
a 3-2 lead. After the stoppage, Henrichs
went to work and finished it, much to the
delight of the sizable home crowd.
I got around behind him again and
crossfaced him twice, Henrichs said. I
took him over from there. Its amazing.
Its a great feeling.
The Raiders got five more key victories along the way. Kenny Krug, Josh
Brooks and Preston Carlson all won by
pin, Andy Poetzl earned a solid decision
over Seth Doering at 132 pounds and Kolten Hanson won by injury default over
Antigos Will Dixon in what was the best
head-to-head matchup of the night. The
two also met in last years dual. Hanson
won 8-7 in an ultimate tiebreaker.
After a scoreless first period in Thursdays 160-pound bout, Hanson and Dixon
traded escapes in the second and third
periods. The two spent most of the match
on their feet hand fighting, looking for
that one opening to take advantage of.
With just under a minute to go in the
third, Hanson got his shot, grabbing a leg
and taking Dixon down to the mat to go
up 3-1. Dixon got hurt on the landing and
was unable to continue, giving Medford

six crucial team points.
After the first period, Kolten just
said, I got him, coach Brooks said.
Kolten thought (Dixon) was tired.
Krug tied the meet early at 6-6 with a
pin in 1:52 over Justin Koszarek in the
heavyweight match, answering a pin
by Antigos Marcus Spencer in 3:42 over
Raider Jacob Thums in the first match of
the meet at 220 pounds.
After a delayed start to his season,
Josh Brooks remained unbeaten, pinning one of Antigos better wrestlers,
Ben Stimac, in 3:51 in the 126-pound
match. After a scoreless first period at
145 pounds, Carlson found his shot late in
the second, taking down Antigos Korbin
Krueger and pinning him at 3:55. Poetzls
notched takedowns in the first and third
periods and got a second-period reversal
in his 6-0 win over Doering.
Antigos Brandon Lucht pinned Cody
Church in 1:33 at 113 pounds, John
Schlieve pinned Raider Brayden Fultz
in 3:25 at 138 pounds and Garrett Balis
stuck Medfords Alex Davis in 3:05 at
152 pounds. Medford forfeited to Dylan
Warax at 120 pounds. There was a double
forfeit at 106 pounds.
With this win and a near miss against
Tomahawk back on Dec. 17, the Raiders
could be considered the early-season
surprise in the Great Northern Conference. Theyll get a chance to show what
theyre made of tonight, Thursday, at

the leagues pre-season favorite Rhinelander. Medford goes to the Ashland Invitational on Saturday before heading to
Lakeland on Jan. 21.
It was a win for conference, Henrichs said of Thursdays victory. We
needed this. It was good.
In JV matches, Taylor DuBois won
by pin in 50 seconds at 182 pounds and
George Hinderliter lost 10-6 at 138 pounds.
WRESTLING STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Rhinelander 2-0
4
0
4
Tomahawk
2-0
4
0
4
Medford
1-1
2
0
2
Antigo
1-1
2
0
2
Lakeland
0-2
0
0
0
Mosinee
0-2
0
0
0
Jan. 7: Medford 39, Antigo 36; Tomahawk 33,
Mosinee 12; Rhinelander 36, Lakeland 21.
Jan. 9: Medford 2nd at Cadott Invitational;
Tomahawk 7th, Lakeland 8th and Mosinee 18th
at Merrill Invitational; Antigo 2nd at Omro
Invitational.
Jan. 14: Medford at Rhinelander, Lakeland at
Mosinee, Antigo at Tomahawk.
Jan. 16: Medford and Lakeland at Ashland
Invitational, Rhinelander at Stevens Point
Invitational, Antigo at Clintonville Invitational,
Tomahawk at Belmont Invitational.
Jan. 19: Mosinee at Neillsville-GreenwoodLoyal.
Jan. 21: Medford at Lakeland, Rhinelander at
Tomahawk, Antigo at Mosinee.
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Ruch wins backstroke, individual

gains continue for swimmers
The Medford Raiders didnt have the
depth and star power to hang with Great
Northern Conference power Lakeland,
but the boys swim team did continue to
make some individual gains in Thursdays 117-48 loss to the Thunderbirds at
the MASH pool.
Lane Ruch easily won the 100-yard
backstroke, finishing in 1:10.71, 10.13 seconds ahead of Lakelands Neil Borden.
Patrick Nelson, Jason Engel, Joey Kraemer and Alejandro Vazquez were among
the swimmers who made significant
gains in at least one event in the secondto-last home meet of the winter. Medford
also made strong pushes toward possible
victories in the 200-yard and 400-yard
freestyle relays, only to be outdone by
one of Lakelands standouts in each race.
We have guys that cut six seconds tonight, head coach Shari Bergman said.
Jason cut a little over three seconds
tonight on his 200 freestyle. Were just
keeping on going.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of
Lane Ruch, Engel, Matt Reuter and Preston Gingras held the lead three-quarters
of the way through, but T-Bird standout
Evan Andrews used a 23.23-second split
to give his team the win in 1:51.88, while
Medford was second at 1:54.52, beating
Lakelands B team by 3.03 seconds.
Those same four Medford swimmers
were right with Lakelands top team
halfway through the 400-yard freestyle
race when Jack Garcia swam a 55.25-second third leg to put Lakeland in front
for good. The T-Birds top team won in
4:06.62. Medford finish second in 4:29.55,
holding off Lakelands B team, which
had Andrews pulling a 52.33-second anchor leg to finish in 4:30.64. Kraemer,
Nelson, Elijah Wipf (filling in for an injured Brendan Griesbach) and Aaron
Connelly took fourth in 5:14.95.
Lakeland dominated the nights first
relay, the 200-yard medley, taking all
three of the top spots in 2:10.88, 2:19.12
and 2:23.05. Medfords team of Griesbach,
Wipf, Connelly and Kraemer was fourth
in 2:38.01.
Ruch added a second-place finish in
the 50-yard freestyle to his solid night.
His time of 25.86 seconds was beaten only
by Andrews, who finished in 23.49 seconds. Gingras was fourth in 28.89 seconds
and Kraemer was sixth in 36.02 seconds.
Kraemer had, by far, his best backstroke
time of the year, taking fifth in 1:36.73,
while Reuter was sixth in 1:50.75.
Engels new personal-best time in the
200-yard freestyle was 2:33.84, good for
third place. Nelson cut 13 seconds off his
time from two nights earlier in Antigo
with a 2:54.75, good for fifth. Griesbach

BOYS SWIM STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Lakeland
6-1
6
0
6
Rhinelander 6-1
6
0
6
Antigo
5-2
5
0
5
Tomahawk
3-4
3
0
3
Shawano
2-6
2
0
2
Medford
0-8
0
0
0
Jan. 7: Lakeland 117, Medford 48; Rhinelander 101, Antigo 66; Tomahawk 88, Shawano 80.
Jan. 8: Rhinelander 5th and Tomahawk 8th at
Ashwaubenon Invitational, Lakeland 2nd at
Wausau East Invitational.
Jan. 14: Antigo at Lakeland, Rhinelander at
Tomahawk.
Jan. 15: Rhinelander at Appleton North Invite.
Jan. 16: Shawano at Neenah Invitational.
Jan. 21: Tomahawk at Medford, Rhinelander
at Lakeland, Antigo at Shawano.
was sixth in 3:10.33. Lakelands Ben Gibson had a time of 2:13.36 and beat teammate Alex Tucker by 0.41 seconds to
win it. Engel added a third-place time of
1:28.88 in the 100-yard butterfly. Garcia
won in 1:01.03.
Nelson swam the 500-yard freestyle
for the first time this season and came
in third at 8:18.93, while Griesbach was
fourth at 8:22.81 before leaving the meet
with a shoulder injury. Nelson was 3.78
seconds behind runner-up Sam Forest.
Stanlee Kmiecik won in 6:50.45.
Gingras placed third in the 100-yard
freestyle in 1:05.93, while Reuter was
fourth in 1:08.14. Vazquez dropped more
than seven seconds, falling to 1:31.83,
good for sixth. Jacob Hamerla won for
Lakeland in 55.06 seconds, while Grant
Gibson came in at 56 seconds.
Some of these guys, they are so close,
just so close, Bergman said. They are
really starting to remember a lot of those
things that really count. That is a good
thing. Its nice to see them cut. Theyre
excited, and I get excited for them.
Connelly and Wipf placed twice individually. Connelly was third in the 200yard individual medley at 2:51.62, within
a second of his best time. Wipf was fourth
in 3:24.83. Hamerla won in 2:24.88. Connelly took fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:33.38 and Wipf was fifth at
1:41.67. Ben Gibson won in 1:16.07.
Lakeland improved to 6-1 in GNC duals and remained tied for the league lead
with Rhinelander, who beat now 5-2 Antigo by a score of 101-66 on Thursday.
Medford slid to 0-8 heading into a Jan. 21
home meet with Tomahawk.
Theyre giving it all they got, Bergman said. Theyre trying. Our biggest
issue is numbers. We cant even get two
relay teams in every race, unless you
pull kids from individual events. You rob
Peter to pay Paul and that just doesnt
work.
Preston pushes on
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Preston Gingras drives forward as he claims third place in Thursdays

100-yard freestyle in the teams meet with Lakeland. Gingras finished the race in
1:05.93. The visiting Thunderbirds won the meet 117-48.
Five-goal period sends Tigers to 9-2 win

A five-goal flurry in the second period
broke open what had been a close game
and propelled the Black River Falls co-op
to a 9-2 win over Medfords girls hockey
team Tuesday night.
The Tigers got those five second-period goals from five different scorers to
complete a season sweep of the Raiders
in the teams annual two-game, non-conference series.
After steady improvement in the
last month, Medford head coach Chad
Demulling said Wednesday the Raiders didnt come out with the same fire
theyve had recently.
We were just flat, Demulling said.
We got the first goal even. I thought that
might give us a spark. But it didnt.
Mikayla Kelz got that goal 4:50 into the
contest with an assist from Marissa McPeak. The Raiders held that 1-0 lead until
the 9:45 mark when the Tigers Baileigh
Johnson tied it up with assists from Ashley Overlien and Taylor Gular.
Overlein scored 2:32 into the second.
Alli Zillmer made it 3-1 with an assist
from Johnson at 6:32. But the Raiders
were still in it.
That is, until the 9:52 mark when Kaytlin Johnson scored the first of the Tigers
three goals in a 46-second span that put it
away. Kacie Suchanek got the next one
at 10:20 with assists from Baileigh John-
son and Khloe Spors. Jade Potter got the

third one at 10:38 with an Overlien assist.
Kaytlin and Baileigh Johnson both
scored in the third to make it 8-1 before
Amanda Bauer netted an unassisted goal
for the Raiders at 9:25. Zillmer closed the
scoring at the 12:20 mark.
Demulling gave senior goaltender
Makayla Hanson her first start of the season and said she did well, stopping 34 of
the 43 shots she saw. He also started running a third line in the second period to
try to get some younger players in and
maybe provide a spark, but this was one
of those nights where not much worked.
Both teams were unsuccessful in two
power plays. Black River Falls goalie
Semra Sipahioglu had 10 saves.
The Raiders, now 1-10-1, start their
second round of Great Northern Conference play Friday with a tough trip
to Eagle River to face league-leading
Northland Pines at 7 p.m. Medford then
hosts the Beaver Dam-Randolph co-op
at 4 p.m. on Saturday in non-conference
play to start a three-game homestand at
the Simek Recreation Center. Lakeland
visits on Monday for a 7 p.m. game, followed by the Rhinelander-Antigo-Three
Lakes Northern Edge on Jan. 21. Face-off
for that game is 5 p.m. It is game one of
a girls-boys doubleheader. The boys host
fourth-ranked and currently undefeated
Antigo that night.
Girls win second event at Tietge Bonspiel; boys team wins first game
Medfords varsity girls curling team
shook off an opening-round loss and won
three straight games to win the second
event at the 65th annual Tietge Bonspiel,
the states largest annual high school
curling event.
The girls team of Tonja Firnstahl, Jori
Brandner, Rebecca Smolka and Shaniah
Krueger secured their event victory by
squeaking out a 6-5 win over Wausau
East II in its final game on Saturday. The
Raiders beat Portage II 7-5 and Wausau
West III 13-0 to get there. Pardeeville II
edged them 5-4 in their first game on Friday.
The JV girls team of Courtney Sterzinger, Heidi Fliehs, Jasmine Enriquez

and Sarah Thums went 1-3 over the weekend. The girls lost 7-3 to Stevens Point II
in the semifinals of the fourth event. That
followed an 8-7 win over Lodi. In earlier
action, the Raiders lost 7-3 to Waupaca
and 7-5 to Portage III.
The varsity boys team of Noah Jalowitz, Douglas Schumacher, Trenton Geiger and Sam Dake opened the bonspiel
on Friday with an 8-3 win over Wausau
West II but dropped out of contention after that with a tight 6-5 loss to Wausau
East and an 8-4 loss to Poynette.
The JV boys played with three players

during the tournament. Brady Tlusty,
Riley Kleist and Sam Lindow lost 13-10
to Waupaca, 7-2 to Pardeevilles top team
and 6-2 to Marshfield II.
Kettle Moraine won the girls championship, while Lodi was the boys champion.
All of Medfords teams will be back at
the Wausau Curling Club today, Thursday, for a 3 p.m. meet against Wausau
East.
Young teams go 1-3

Medford hosted Wausau West Tues-
day for games featuring JV teams and

squads of new curlers. The Warriors won
three of the four matches played at the
Medford Curling Club.
The three-man boys JV squad fell 9-6,
while three-person girls JV team of Sterzinger, Fliehs and Thums came up short
9-5.
A team of new curlers featuring Aubrey Buskerud, Emily Anderson and
Avery Apfelbeck came away 7-5 winners, while the team of Hannah Machon,
Hannah Tabbert and Grace Geiger lost a
close one, 6-5.
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Thursday,
Thursday,
September
January 14,
22, 2016
2011
Power-play goals hurt hockey

team in two GNC losses
Fire away
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Alex Carstensen blasts a shot past Lakelands Beau Ertl hoping for something good to happen near the net in the first period of Tuesdays 7-5 loss.
Lady Redmen win by three

basically the whole game and keep clawing and scrapping, its a nice win to pull
out, Wudi said.
The win pushes Rib Lakes overall
record to 4-8 and ends a two-game losing streak. Butternut falls to 3-8. The
Redmen have won six straight over the
Midgets, dating back to Jan. 17, 2011. It
was the first overtime game for Rib Lake
since a 51-48 loss to Abbotsford on Feb.
12, 2015.
Tonight, Thursday Jan. 14, the Redmen jump back into Marawood North
play against Athens at 7:15 p.m. Next
Tuesday, theyll be at Prentice.
The way we won built a lot of confidence. Its good for our game on Thursday, Scheithauer said.
Rib Lake led 3-0 after Wudis three
1:20 into the first half. Butternut scored
the next eight points and didnt surrender the lead again until the Redmen
scored the first four points of the second
half to go up 25-23. The Midgets led 23-21
at halftime and were in control most of
the game. They led for 29 minutes, 16 seconds, compared to just under six minutes
for Rib Lake.
Cardey led the Redmen with 14 points,
seven rebounds and three steals. She was
a perfect eight-for-eight at the free throw
line. Fitzl tied her season-high with eight
points. Weinke made a three and scored
seven for the second straight game.
Wudi added a triple and had five
points. Neither Megan Wiitala or Thums
scored, but Mike Wudi highlighted their
defensive contributions.
They had some tough defensive
matchups. I had Megan on 15 (McCorison) for a while, but she held her own.
Mariah is doing well and getting used to
her role coming off the bench, he said.
Dobbs (8.3 ppg) was injured during
the teams loss to Abbotsford on Friday.
The 5-11 forward is not expected to play
tonight against Athens.
She is bound and determined to play
against Athens, but we wont push it if
shes not ready, Wudi said.
Freshman guard Bortz scored 11 for
Butternut. After a four-for-four start at
the free throw line, the Midgets were
seven for 21 (.333) the rest of the way.
Loss to Abbotsford
Abbotsford rebounded from its first
conference loss of the season to beat Rib
Lake 50-31 in a Marawood North game on
Friday in Rib Lake. The Falcons crushed
Granton 62-21 on Monday, giving them
two straight wins since a 54-31 loss to

conference leading Edgar on Jan. 5.
The loss put Rib Lake at 2-4 in North
play. Abbotsford is in second at 5-1, a
game back of undefeated Edgar.
Abbotsford head coach Gary Gunderson used a deep and balanced attack to
beat the Redmen. Every active Falcon,
11 in total, scored in the game. Ariana
Branstiter led Abbotsford with 10 points.
Jaelyn Friedenfels and Taygen Viegut
had six each.
Theyre balanced. Its hard to tell
sometimes who their best player is,
Mike Wudi said.
Rib Lake posted its second-lowest
scoring total of the season. Abbotsfords
1-2-2 zone kept the Redmen off balance
and forced 29 turnovers. Weinke led the
team with seven points.
We knew it was coming. They do that
1-2-2 stuff. We just had way too much
trouble with that pressure. We planted
Regan smack in the middle and then she
went down. Foul trouble messed up any
kind of rotation we wanted, Wudi said.
Dobbs left the game with 10 minutes
left in the second half after falling awkwardly during a scrum for a loose ball.
The game started out slowly. Dobbs
scored a put-back off a Cardey miss at
the 12:50 mark of the first half, the first
points for either team. Sabrina Branstiter scored the next four points, followed
by a Friedenfels jumper, to push the
Falcons up 6-2 with 8:12 left in the first.
After a Weinke two-pointer, Abbotsford
went on another six-point run. Wiitala
made it a 16-13 deficit after a pair of free
throws with 1:03 until the break, but Sadie Gunderson extended the Falcons
halftime lead to five with two foul shots.
Abbotsford went on an 11-1 streak
to start the second half, thanks to four
points from Klieforth and a three-pointer
by Ariana Branstiter. Hailey Wudi hit a
three to cut the lead to 29-17. The Falcons
lead got as large as 44-23 before Weinke
made a three with 2:15 to play.
Rib Lakes top scorer, Cardey, was
limited to a one-for-nine night from the
field and finished with six points. Wiitala
scored five and Hailey Wudi had four.
Scheithauer made a second half three for
her only points of the game and Fitzl and
Dobbs chipped in two-point baskets.
We get panicked, thats where all
those travels come from. Were not seeing the floor very well. We had a couple
nice trips against their pressure and all
of a sudden, struggles appear, Wudi
said.
The Medford Raiders kept shooting

and some good things happened for them
on Tuesday night, but it wasnt enough
to overcome Lakelands four power-play
goals in the Thunderbirds 7-5 win at the
Simek Recreation Center.
Jack Schafer scored two late shorthanded goals to record his second hat
trick of the season and Medford put 39
shots on goal, by far the Raiders highest total in a Great Northern Conference
game this season.
Lakelands veteran forwards, though,
put constant pressure on Medfords
defense as well, capitalizing on some
mistakes as well as their power-play
chances. The T-Birds converted on four
of eight power plays. Medford was unsuccessful on two power plays.
The guys came to play, Medford
head coach Eric Vach said. You know,
we all had some failures. Some offensive
failures, some defensive failures, some
goalie failures. Things like that. But for
the most part, we had a lot of shots. Lots
of improvements with our offense. Huge.
Jared Rothmeier got his first high
school goal ever. Kyle Dettmering got his
second. A lot of good things. Were still
finding ourselves in the box, though.
The game turned on a three-goal surge
by Lakeland spanning the end of the first
period and the start of the second.
Schafer had given Medford an early
1-0 lead 6:10 into the game. He fired a shot
as he entered the offensive zone the deflected off the glove of goalie Nathan Pitek and fell into the net for an unassisted
goal. But 1:08 later, the T-Birds were on
a power play and Spencer Sutton capitalized right in front with assists from Beau
Ertl and Austin Chart. Just 19 seconds
later, Lakeland perfectly executed a twoon-one break with Max Wollheber scoring off a John Dern assist.
The Raiders responded at 12:18. Andrew Rothmeiers shot went wide but the
puck found his brother Jared Rothmeier
and he connected from a tough angle
on Piteks left side to tie it. On the same
shift, the brothers nearly scored again,
but Pitek got the save to foil their two-onone break.
A turnover in the defensive zone with
49 seconds left in the period gave Wollheber his second goal, again assisted by
Dern. Lakeland had a five-on-three advantage early in the second and quickly
capitalized when Wesley Bauer was left
alone and buried a slap shot that beat
Medford goalie Spenser Scholl just 59
seconds into the period. Sutton had the
assist. Chart notched power-play goal
number three at 8:52, lifting a shot over
Scholls shoulder with assists from Bauer and Buddy Duranso.
Dettmerings goal pulled Medford
within 5-3 at the 11:10 mark. Pitek was
knocked out of position by traffic in front
of the net as the puck found its way to the
senior defenseman in front of his teams
bench. He blasted a shot that got past Piteks glove and stayed inside the post.
Getting the first goal of the third
wouldve been a huge lift for Medford.
Instead, Lakeland put it away with two
more. Ertl was set up perfectly by Chart
on a power-play at 4:06 for an easy goal. A
Bauer shot somehow got through Scholl
at 6:37 to make it 7-3.
Things didnt go as well for the TBirds on their last two power plays. At
9:56, Medfords Klayton Kree pushed
the puck to neutral ice, hitting Schafer
in stride. The junior did the rest, firing
the puck under Piteks glove. With nine
seconds left in the game, Kree again set

BOYS HOCKEY STANDINGS
Conf.
Conf.
Overall
W-L-T
Pts.
W-L-T
Antigo
9-0-0
27
13-0-0
Northland Pines
5-1-0
15
8-5-0
Mosinee
5-1-0
15
8-6-0
Lakeland
4-3-0
12
7-7-0
Waupaca
3-3-0
9
5-9-0
Tomahawk
2-7-0
6
4-7-1
Rhinelander
1-7-0
3
5-7-0
Medford
0-7-0
0
4-7-0
Jan. 7: Waupaca 7, Medford 2; Antigo 5,
Mosinee 1; Northland Pines 5, Lakeland 1; Tomahawk 7, Wausau East 3; Rhinelander 5, Shawano
4 (OT).
Jan. 8: Mosinee 3, Waupaca 2; Antigo 5, Fond du
Lac Springs 0.
Jan. 9: Medford 3, Viroqua Co-op 2 (OT);
Northland Pines 2, Fond du Lac Springs 1;
Appleton United 6, Mosinee 3; Stevens Point 5,
Waupaca 0.
Jan. 12: Lakeland 7, Medford 5; Antigo 8,
Rhinelander 0; Mosinee 9, Tomahawk 1; Wausau
West 5, Northland Pines 1; DePere-West DePere
4, Waupaca 1.
Jan. 14: Chequamegon-Phillips at Medford,
Lakeland at Mosinee, Rhinelander at Waupaca,
Northland Pines at Tomahawk.
Jan. 15: Medford vs. LAnse, Mich. at Merrill, New Richmond at Antigo.
Jan. 16: Medford vs. Merrill or Sparta at
Merrill, Waupaca at Lakeland, Waukesha
Co-op at Antigo, Rhinelander at ChequamegonPhillips.
Jan. 19: Medford at Mosinee, Antigo at Lakeland, Tomahawk at Waupaca, Northland Pines at
Rhinelander.
Jan. 21: Antigo at Medford, Marshfield at
Tomahawk, Chequamegon-Phillips at Lakeland,
Rhinelander at S.P. Pacelli.
up Schafer, who rifled a low shot right

across the crease that stayed inside the
opposite post.
Scholl had 37 saves and Pitek had 34.
Lakeland improved to 4-3 in the GNC and
7-7 overall. Medford is 0-7, 4-7.
It was a good showing for a conference game. One of our better showings,
Vach said. Its right up there with the
Pines game (last week). We have some
guys who are beat up. Were banged up
but theyre playing through it.
Medfords legs will get tested in the
next week. Medford hosts ChequamegonPhillips tonight, Thursday, at 7 p.m. and
then heads to the two-day Merrill tournament. The Raiders will play LAnse,
Mich. Friday at 6 p.m. and then either
Merrill or Sparta on Saturday. The consolation game is at 11 a.m. The championship is at 1 p.m.
The Raiders go to Mosinee for a tough
GNC matchup on Tuesday and then host
Antigo, the states fourth-ranked team,
on Jan. 21.
The boys played hard again. They
always do, Vach said. Were gaining ground every time we hit the ice, so
thats awesome.
Comets cruise
Elias Thompson scored four goals
while Elliot Crisman and Hunter Smith
had three assists apiece to lead host Waupaca to a 7-2 GNC win over Medford on
Thursday night.
The Comets led 7-0 before Medford
broke through against the Comets and
back-up goalie Ryan Kocovsky in the
third period.
Schafer notched the first Medford goal
11:31 into the period with an assist from
Payton Nelson. At 14:12, Dettmering
scored his first goal of the season with an
assist from Alex Carstensen, blasting in
a shot from center ice.
Waupaca outshot Medford 40-21.
Sophomore Tyler Kadlecek got the start
in goal for Medford and finished with 33
saves. Waupaca standout Walker Smith
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Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure

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Whats Happening
Friday, January 15
Dinner Buffet from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Centennial
Community Center, Stetsonville.
Music with Denny Frey at 9 a.m. at Golden Living
Center.
Perkinstown Tramp at Perkinstown Winter Sports
Area. Registration from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Races start at
10:45 a.m.
46th Annual Underhand Dartball Tournament at
noon at Zondlos Bar.
Doubles Cribbage at 1 p.m. at Bogeys.
Soup to Go from 3 to 6 p.m. at the St. Louis Parish
Hall, Dorchester.
Music by Minor Distraction from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
at Hacienda.
Sunday, January 17
Prentice
Bushbenders
Snowmobile
Club
Breakfast from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Chequamegon
Sportsmens Club.
Wednesday, January 20
Alzheimers Support Group at 1 p.m. at Golden
Living Center.
Rib Lake Memory Cafe at Mann Made.
Wednesday, January 27
Music with George Dums at 4 p.m. at Golden Living
Center.
Doubles Cribbage Tournament at 1 p.m. at Cattail
Tap.
January 29-31
Games on the Green Grand Opening.
Mixed Couples Bean Bag Tournament at 7:30 p.m.
at Zondlos Bar.
Saturday, February 6
Marriage Matters presented by River of Hope
Medford from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marilyns Fire Station.
4-Person Underhand Dartball Tournament at 1
p.m. at Cattail Tap.
Pool Tournament at Games on the Green.
Dorian festival
(In photo right)) Emily Zirngible (l.
to r.), Madelyn Brost, Cody Hobl and
Dalton Everhard participated in Luther
College Dorian Vocal Festival January
10-11 in Decorah, Iowa. More than
1,000 students from all over the Midwest
came together to form the largest choir in
the United States (Above). Students were
able to hear three of Luther Colleges
choirs and Decorah High School concert choir perform in concert. Students
were hosted by students on campus and
had the chance to experience the college experience while also working with
Luthers choir directors and meeting
composers whose works they sang.
Annual Doubles Cribbage Tournament at 1 p.m.

at Cattail Tap.
PERKINSTOWN
Krug Tours trip to Sister Act in Chanhassen, Minn.

Bus leaves at 7 a.m.
4-Person Underhand Dartball Tournament at 3
p.m. at Zondlos Bar.
Feburary 26-27
Registration: 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Destination Medford Womens Weekend.
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At right, Marissa
Peters (left) and Josie
Scheithauer near the
finish line.
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Home stretch
Rachel Tassler smiles as she gets
encouragement from supporters.
Smiling all the way

Mike Quednow celebrates
as he nears the finish line of
the 10K run at Saturdays Rib
Lake Snowshoe Adventure.
Off and running
Top finisher
Jackson Blomberg (center) won the 1-mile kids

race. Hes off to a fast start in the picture above.
Kris Borchardt was the

overall champion of the
5K race.
The Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure
Forest Springs Camp and Conference Center
Saturday, January 9
10K Race
1 Jim McDonnel 39:55.1

2 Jeffrey Quednow 44:59.2
3 Mark Brose 51:50.2
4 Joe Freudenthal 54:07.5
5 Mike Quednow 55:10.1
6 Joseph Anderson 59:03.4
7 Jennifer Chaudoir 1:00:48.2
8 Scott Scheithauer 1:02:03.2
9 Jason Ruesch 1:05:58.2
10 Gary Krueger 1:06:06.7
11 Kristin Miller 1:06:07.5
12 Brian Kim 1:09:35.6
13 Clifford Massie 1:09:36.3
14 Jim Graupner 1:12:43.3
15 Celie Borndal 1:13:42.7
16 CJ Snowshoe 1:14:42.2
17 Dave Sykora 1:16:57.6
18 Kathy Weix 1:18:51.0
19 Dennis Dieringer 1:20:15.6
20 Judy Punke 1:23:41.2
21 Travis Bube 1:26:15.0
22 Bill Feltz 1:28:57.3
23 Aurora Rinehart 1:31:15.0
24 Rick Lecher 1:38:10.8
25 Bob Rusch 1:46:01.5
26 Annette Tlusty 1:58:36.4
27 Janice Feltz 1:58:38.2
5K Race
1 Kris Borchardt 24:07.3

2 Mark Krommenacker 25:13.0
3 Luke Powers 27:04.2
4 Jack Brost 27:19.5

5 Davey Sapinski 27:46.9
6 Tom Quednow 27:48.1
7 Bill Bellendorf 27:54.0
8 Tim Rau 28:16.4
9 Jaco Van Der Berg 29:07.0
10 Seth Vollrath 30:16.7
11 Cole Pritchard 30:40.8
12 Dave Rau 30:44.1
13 Barb Wilke 30:56.3
14 Shawn Sullivan 31:27.8
15 Mary Kaleta 32:26.8
16 Logan Blomberg 32:52.7
17 Gina Quednow 33:05.2
18 Shane Ironside 33:11.9
19 Mike Malchow 33:17.4
20 Ken Milz 33:23.4
21 Mike Radlinger 34:18.9
22 William Litzer 35:07.2
23 Trisha Wagner 35:16.6
24 Rachel Tassler 35:37.4
25 Richard Rau 36:36.0
26 Dawn Czech-Webster 36:38.2
27 Casey Quednow 36:46.7
28 Melissa Meier 37:01.8
29 Angela Fisher 37:27.7
30 Mindy Wagner 38:05.5
31 Shannon Lacena 38:15.1
32 Christine Seguin 38:36.0
33 Liz Tesch 39:27.4
34 Kathleen Clemons 39:44.6
35 Jeff Tarras 40:08.4
36 Jodi Sleznikow 41:01.2
37 David Lambert 41:30.2
38 Shari Walker 41:44.1

39 Scott Walker 41:45.2
40 Luke Lamb 41:47.9
41 Jill Dixon 42:58.1
42 Louis Voss 43:18.7
43 Angela Engel 43:49.5
44 Megan Klavers 44:58.5
45 Kateri Killian-Lambert 45:16.7
46 Sarah Steele 45:20.5
47 Dick Lange 46:50.8
48 Michelle Lange 46:52.1
49 Monelle Johnson 47:41.2

50 Edward Kalepp 47:42.2
51 Laura Hayden 47:52.5
52 Todd Seguin 48:13.8
53 David Sleznikow 48:20.3
54 Kristi Speer 48:25.7
55 Justin Lindgren 48:26.6
56 Cathy Klavers 48:46.3
57 Kitty Rau 48:48.0
58 Sarah Dunlavy 49:02.7
59 Terry Mueller 49:33.0
60 Jean Lampi 51:43.6
61 Paul Brown 51:53.2
62 Andrea Metz 53:16.0
63 Paul Wilke 53:26.2
64 Michelle Czlapinski 55:45.1
65 Bethany Redbird 57:37.9
66 Sue Mueller 58:42.2
67 Chris Finkler 58:52.2
68 Roddie Larsen 1:00:55.9
69 Angela Daniels 1:04:28.7
70 Bruce Daniels 1:04:30.3
71 Ann Orthmann 1:05:48.3
72 Patty Grove 1:08:06.0
73 Ron Schiffler 1:14:57.0
74 Brad Bacher 1:20:56.2
75 Joann Peel 1:20:56.5
76 Marcia Obukowicz 1:30:52.3
1-Mile Youth Race
1 Jackson Blomberg 7:10.9

2 Michael Borchardt 8:05.0
3 Talon Scheithauer 8:13.1
4 Jayden Thums 8:38.3
5 Ethan Cook 8:46.4

6 Ben Peterson 9:05.3
7 Xavier Brahmer 9:09.6
8 Slade Scheithauer 9:14.4
9 Tessa Weik 9:24.7
10 Marissa Peters 10:07.2
11 Josie Scheithauer 10:08.1
12 Madilyn Blomberg 10:21.1
13 Tahlia Scheithauer 10:24.8
14 Erika Sleznikow 10:33.7
15 Shayla Radlinger 10:48.6
16 Sean Sleznikow 10:57.9
17 Lillian Tassler 11:35.0
18 Evan Peters 11:47.1
19 Jack Schutt 13:37.7
20 Eleanor Tassler 13:40.3
21 Wyatt Peterson 13:50.0
22 Jed Henderson 13:56.5
23 Lucas Cook 13:57.4
24 Riley Clark 14:06.4
25 Madison Grzanna 14:11.4
26 Lauren Schutt 14:14.1
27 Corbyn Radlinger 14:19.3
28 Madeline Clark 16:08.8
29 Ella Grzanna 16:20.6
30 Jersey Taylor 16:32.3
31 Avery Niemi 17:21.1
32 Keaton Schmidtfranz 17:25.1
33 Ty Niemi 18:21.1
34 Jacob Sleznikow 19:34.0
35 Kaylee Peterson 19:39.3
36 Kyle Schmidtfranz 19:42.5
37 Breleigh Niemi 19:44.3
38 Rylee Peterson 19:45.4
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Its racing time
Thirty-eight kids competed in the 1-mile race at Saturdays Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure. In the picture above, just before
the race is set to begin, the kids show off their muscles. Right, 10K and 5K runners take off from the starting line.
65th Annual Rib Lake Area Fish and Game

Ice Fishing Contest
The Rib Lake Fish and Game Association held
its 65th Annual Ice Fishing Contest on Rib Lake on
Saturday, Jan. 9.
Despite poor ice, slush, cold temperatures and icy
winds, quite a few fishermen battled the conditions.
A lot of pan fish were caught even though the walleye
werent biting very good.
Numerous door prizes were given away at the Ice
Age Pavilion where chicken booyah and hot dogs were
available.
The Rib Lake Area Fish and Game Association
would like to thank all the fishermen and people who
participated in the event.
-Norm Vlach
Quite a haul
James Potocnik (l. to r.), Brett Ulrich, Cole Denzine and Jordan Yanko show off their catches during Saturdays
65th Annual Rib Lake Area Fish and Game Ice Fishing Contest.
Ice Fishing Winners

Walleye
1st Kelly Polacek
Northern Pike
1st Cole Denzine
2nd Kyle Ziembo
3rd Pete Klingbeil
Crappie
1st James Borter
2nd James Potocnik
3rd Kyle Matyka
Perch
1st Cole Denzine
2nd Kris Hempe
3rd Kyle Ziembo
Blue Gill
1st Jordan Yanko
2nd Brett Ulrich
3rd Brett Ulrich
Cash Prize Winners
1st $500
Aaron Zondlo
2nd $250
Jim Lue
3rd $100
Kevin Radtke
4th $50
Carl Lueck
A day on the lake

Jason Treankler (l. to r), Ray Van Luven and Lindsey Van Luven arrived at Rib Lake at 6 a.m. to get their fishing started.
Caught Northern
Kyle Ziembo shows off a Northern Pike caught during Saturdays Ice Fishing Contest. Ziembos big fish
took second place.
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THE STAR NEWS
Thursday,
Thursday,
September
January 14,
22, 2016
2011
SPORTS
Redmen hold off Falcons; Phillips earns a six-point victory

five assists and tied his season-high with 15 points, 14
in the first half.
The second half played out much differently.
Rau made a three coming out of the break, but Austin
Zondlo hit twos on consecutive possessions. Rib Lake
extended its lead to 18 when Weinke made a straight-on
three after Eisner stole an Abbotsford pass. After that
basket, the Redmen went on a four-and-a-half-minute
scoreless drought.
Gorst made an NBA-range three and the Falcons
scored 12 of the next 14 points, trimming Rib Lakes lead
to 53-45 with 6:19 to play.
The guys had some success early and things were
coming fairly easy for them. The second half we didnt
come out with that same intensity, Wild said. I think
they played 18 or 19 minutes of a game. They didnt play
a whole 36.
Abbotsford clawed within three after Gorst made a
pair of free throws with 2:04 left. Rib Lakes next possession ended in a turnover. Seefluths three attempt hit
the rim and Weinke grabbed the rebound. Ewan threw
away a pass intended for Zondlo on the baseline.
It was rough. Our shots werent falling and I was
getting nervous, Strebig said.
We were more patient and played a lot more as a
team instead of relying on our two seniors. That was the
key, Podevels said.
Gorsts potential game-tying three from the right corner came up short. The Falcons went into a full-court
press, but the Redmen broke it down and Scheithauer
made a layup with 30 seconds left, giving Rib Lake a 5954 lead. Strebig pick-pocketed Rau off the inbounds and
made a free throw after being fouled with 12.8 seconds
to play. Rau got an uncontested two-pointer with 5.8 left
and Weinke made a free throw to close the game.
The Redmen opted not to attack the interior of Abbotsfords 2-3 zone defense, instead settling for threepointers, especially in the second half. Rib Lake attempted a season-low six free throws and made four,
while going three-for-22 (.136) from long distance. The
Redmen were 24-for-51 (.470) from inside the arc.
We shoot ourselves in the foot by taking threes that
dont need to be taken against their zone. Our guys had
it in their mind they were gonna win the game with the
three ball, Wild said. Weve got some good shooters
but we need to recognize when theyre not falling.
Weinke scored 10 points on four of 11 shooting. He
added five rebounds, two assists and two steals. Ewan
scored eight points, the first time this season hes
been held to single digits. Zondlo scored six points and
grabbed five boards. Junior Garrett Richardson scored
his first career varsity basket on a put-back with 3:50
left in the second half. TrayVon Sutherland swiped

three steals in limited second half action. The Redmen
finished with a season-best 21 team steals.
The fact is, you held the lead, regained the momentum towards the end and didnt curl up and cry. They
continued to fight, so thats a positive for us, Wild said.
Theres going to be games where teams make runs,
weve got to withstand and bend, not break. We did that
tonight.
Beyond Gorst and Rau, Abbotsfords seniors, only
two Falcons scored. Tyler Kunze and Seefluth had four
points apiece.
Tyler was sick with the flu. Hes a big part of our
offense so that hurt us a bit. Weve definitely got to get
some of our younger guys involved, Podevels said.
Rib Lake improves to 3-1 in the North and 5-3 overall.
Theyre a game back of first place Edgar and trail Phillips, who beat Chequamegon Tuesday night to get to 5-1
in North competition. The Redmen will try for conference win number-four tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 15 when
they host Athens at 7:15 p.m.
We just have to go out and take control. Take control and keep control, Strebig said. Rib Lake welcomes
Northland Lutheran for a non-conference game on
Tuesday, also at 7:15 p.m.
Abbotsford (3-6, 2-3 North) sits in a tie with Chequamegon for fourth. The two sides play tomorrow.
Loss to Phillips
Cade Rose scored a season-high 27 points and the
Phillips Loggers earned a hard-fought 61-55 win over the
Rib Lake Redmen in a Marawood North boys basketball
game on Friday in Phillips.
Rib Lake held a 26-22 lead with just over two minutes left in the first half, but the Loggers exploded for 14
straight points to go into the break up 36-26.
We always match up well with Phillips. The last
couple games theres always been one guy for them that
has a good night. Friday it was Rose, Jason Wild said.
We took bad shots. They went the other way and finished. We had some turnovers and sloppy passes.
Once you give up 14 straight points in a row its
tough to get it back, especially against a good team like
Phillips, Dalton Strebig said.
The loss was the first in conference play for the Redmen. Phillips improved to 4-1 at the time.
Scheithauer led Rib Lake with 13 points on six of nine
shooting and added 20 rebounds and four steals. Zondlo
and Ewan had 10 points each. Strebig scored nine and
had a team-leading five assists but was just three-for-13
from the field. Weinke finished two-for-12 and had five
points. Patrick and Eisner scored four points apiece.
Rib Lake finished 23 of 66 (.348) from the field and just

five of 22 (.227) from three-point range.
The Redmen nearly caught Phillips towards the end,
but Rose took over again with the Loggers up four late
in the second half. Phillips 6-3 junior made three threepointers overall and had nine second half points.
We had the momentum in our control, but hes a
player that said, no, Im going to get it back. It went to
him and he did nothing but make great moves. He was
getting fouls and making layups, Wild said. We won
the second half points-wise. Rib Lake out-scored Phillips 29-25 over the final 18 minutes.
Ryan Giannoni netted 16 points for the Loggers. Jeff
Mobie had eight points and Shawn Brown scored five.
The Loggers were just five-for-15 at the free throw line.
We did our full-court trap and went to a zone at
times. Phillips moves the ball well and theyre good
shooters so the zone wasnt really working for us. Im
hoping our man defense will be stronger when we face
them again, Wild said.
Phillips has won three straight against Rib Lake, but
the Redmen have won six of the last 11 games in the series.
The two teams meet again on Feb. 9 in Rib Lake.
MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISION
BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Edgar
4
0
9
2
Phillips
5
1
6
2
Rib Lake
3
1
5
3
Abbotsford
2
3
3
5
Chequamegon
2
3
4
7
Prentice
1
4
3
6
Athens
0
5
1
8
Jan. 7: Edgar 55, Abbotsford 23.
Jan. 8: Phillips 61, Rib Lake 55; Prentice 64, Athens 43.
Jan. 12: Rib Lake 61, Abbotsford 56; Phillips 54, Chequamegon
38; Edgar 77, Athens 27; Prentice 63, Crandon 45.
Jan. 15: Athens at Rib Lake, Prentice at Edgar, Abbotsford at
Chequamegon, Owen-Withee at Phillips.
Jan. 18: Chequamegon at Athens, Prentice at Three Lakes.
Jan. 19: North. Lutheran at Rib Lake, Marathon at Edgar,
Ladysmith at Phillips.
Jan. 21: Rib Lake at Prentice, Phillips at Bruce.
MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISION

Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Edgar
6
0
9
3
Abbotsford
5
1
8
5
Phillips
4
2
5
4
Prentice
3
3
5
6
Rib Lake
2
4
4
8
Chequamegon
1
5
1
11
Athens
0
6
1
11
Jan. 8: Abbotsford 50, Rib Lake 31; Edgar 82, Athens 28; Phillips 79, Chequamegon 42; Lakeland 56, Prentice 46.
Jan. 11: Rib Lake 43, Butternut 40 (OT); Phillips 56, LaonaWabeno 52; Abbotsford 62, Granton 21; Columbus Catholic 74,
Athens 51.
Jan. 14: Athens at Rib Lake, Abbotsford at Chequamegon,
Flambeau at Phillips.
Jan. 15: Prentice at Edgar, Mellen at Phillips.
Jan. 18: Edgar at Owen-Withee.
Jan. 19: Rib Lake at Prentice, Phillips at Abbotsford, Chequamegon at Athens.
Hockey loss
Alumni hockey
Submitted photos
Alumni of Medford hockey teams from 1990-2015 gathered at the Simek Recreation Center on Saturday, Dec. 26
for the 13th alumni games. Players competing in the slower-paced first game (top) and faster-paced second game
are pictured. Proceeds from the games fund Medford Area Senior High alumni hockey scholarships and Medfords
high school and youth hockey programs. The event was again a success, with high attendance from players and
fans. Next years games are scheduled for Friday, Dec. 23.
stopped all 13 shots he saw in the first two periods. Kocovsky had six saves in the third.
Medford played a solid first period. After 12:50 of
scoreless hockey, Thompson lit the lamp for his first
goal with assists from Smith and Crisman. The Comets
then took advantage of a late five-on-three power play
with a Jack Menzies goal with 15 seconds left in the period. In fact, Medford spent most of the last four minutes
of the period short-handed and nearly got out of it.
The momentum, however, from that late goal carried
into the second period. Waupaca put the game away by
scoring four times. Mitchell Trzebiatowski got the first
one at 2:21. Thompson scored at 5:27, Hunter Smith got
one at 7:20 and Thompson completed his hat trick with
52 seconds left in the period on another two-man advantage.
Thompson made it 7-0 at the 5:31 mark of the third.
Medford had two power-play chances and came up
empty on both. However, Schafers goal came 12 seconds
after a Waupaca penalty had expired.
SPORTS
THE STAR NEWS
Thursday, September 22,

Page
2011
13
Milwaukee Bucks team up with the DNR for DNR Nights

Even though deer hunting seasons have come to a
close, bucks are still on the mind. Its not just whitetailed bucks were talking about. The Department of
Natural Resources is also focusing on the Milwaukee
Bucks, who they will team up with to bring back DNR
Bowling
The Sports Page
Classy Ladies League
Bettie Hartwig
210
Bettie Hartwig
566
Kathy Hana
197
Kathy Hana
545
Kelly Felton
192
Ann McNamar
536
Results: Klinner Insurance 7, Tease Tanning Plus 0; VFW 5, J&B Custom Carpentry 2; Paulines Hair Fashion 7, Rockys Cozy Kitchen 0;
Peoples Choice Credit Union 7, Moosies Ice Cream 0; Fidelity Bank
7, A&M Apartments 0; Klingbeil Lumber 7, Als Auto Dock 0.
Note. The Fidelity Bank team of Margie Guziak, Bettie Hartwig and
Jackie Rhyner won the National League. The Klinner Insurance team
of Arlene Handel, Teresa Helberg, Judy Lang and Kelly Felton won
the American League.
Blue Mondays League
Lorna Spreen
209
Judy Lang
532
Anna Goessl
196
Anna Goessl
525
Shirley Lemke
190
Lorna Spreen
512
Jan. 4: Holy Rollers 7, Heiers Wreaths 0; Bakers 7, Misfits 0; Big
Birds Lodge 5, Strikes R Us 2.
Wednesday Mid-Weekers League
Donna Wright
236
Donna Wright
548
Anna Goessl
201
Anna Goessl
538
Julaine Anderson
187
Shirley Lemke
528
Jan. 6: Medford Motors 7, Happy Joes 0; Werner Sales & Service 4,
Taylor Credit Union 3; Lounge Around 5, Sports Page 2.
Businessmens League
Women
Tracy Platt
221
Tracy Platt
550
Lori Zenner
210
Ann McNamar
538
Men
Casey Nernberger 258
Casey Nernberger
750
Dave Kallenbach
257
Ron Ziemba
702
Jan. 7: Sports Page 29; VFW 29, Rockys Cozy Kitchen 11; Rural
Insurance 31.5, Melvin Companies 8.5; Jensen & Son Asphalt 22,
Werner Sales & Service 18; Medford Motors 40, Als Auto Dock 0;
Haenels 36, Turtle Club 4; Shell Shack 29, PBRs Lounge Around 11.
Monday Mens City League
Jerry Roberts
296
Joe Malovrh
700
Jess Haenel
286
Brad Kmosena
693
Brad Kmosena
279
Jeff Hartwig
690
Jan. 11: T&C Water 32, Klingbeil Lumber 8; WTC 31, Taylor Credit
Union 9; JR Construction 37, Mayer Accounting 3; Sports Page 33,
Crossroads 7; Fidelity Bank 22, Edgar Lanes 18; Northwest Mutual
36, blind 4.
Happy Couples League
Women
Anna Goessl
211
Ann Goessl
526
Lois Giese
172
Flo Carlisle
467
Men
Howard Schilling 231
Howard Schilling
577
Dave Goessl
193
Steve Homeyer
513
Jan. 3: Flamingos 7, Baby Boomers 0; Oddballs 5, Empty Nesters 2;
Shillangs 4, Pinbusters 3.
Tappers Bar (Dorchester)
Tuesday Seniors League
Men
Paul Metz
197
Paul Metz
495
Don Clarkson
173
Don Clarkson
451
Jerry Huber
162
Dale Lussenden
425
Dale Lussenden
162
Women
Ardis Meier
166
Ardis Meier
441
Chris Hinde
158
Sharon Ellenbecker
432
Sharon Ellenbecker 154
Chris Hinde
405
Jan. 5: Slo Pokes 4, Alley Cats 3, Amigos 3, Maybees 1, Slow Starters
1.
Miller Dam Lake Associations ice fishing contest is January 30

The Miller Dam Lake Association promises fun for
all ages at its 14th annual ice fishing contest Saturday,
Jan. 30 on the Miller Dam (Chequamegon Waters) Flowage.
Great prizes are up for grabs for adult and children
showing off their ice fishing skills. There will be free
sleigh rides, music, refreshments, great food and an
abundance of door prizes in a heated shelter. There will
be raffles for chances at cash and great prizes like a rifle
and an archery white-tailed deer hunting trip, an ice
fishing shack, rifles and much more.
The Miller Dam Lake Association is a charitable,
educational, recreational non-profit organization. It is
a qualified lake association, certified by the Department
of Natural Resources. Its primary purpose is to support
the protection and improvements of the Miller Dam

Lakes Area for the benefit of the public.
The Miller Dam Lake Association has and will continue to contribute to the area by annually stocking
fish, maintaining and providing the winter aeration
system, provide playground equipment, boat docks,
benches, building and maintaining wood duck houses
and water quality monitoring, to name but a few of the
associations contributions.
The Miller Dam Lake Associations annual ice fishing contest is held on the last Saturday of January each
year. The event is held on Miller Dam (Chequamegon
Waters Flowage) off CTH G.
For more information visit the groups website:
www.millerdamlakeassoc.com
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First Ice? Fishing trip!

Hello friends,
Generally in Wisconsin, ice fishermen hit our frozen
lakes between mid-November and early December. For
most Wisconsin hard water enthusiasts first ice was not
until after Christmas.
My first ice fishing getaway was just completed and,
by all accounts, it was extremely successful. Please read
further for details on how to have a really good time in
Wisconsin when there is ice.
Friday, Jan. 1
High 27, Low 16
Sawyer Countys Chetac Lake covers 1,920 acres and
has an abundant supply of 8- to 10-inch crappies as well
as northern pike, walleyes, perch and bluegills.
Paul Bucher is my good buddy from Cumberland,
who I try to have one or two fun outings a year with.
Preston Johnson, who lives in Rice Lake, is a lot of fun
and a hardcore fishermen. Chris Schiefelbein lives on
Lake Chetac and is very into catching fish and socializing with his pals. Chris was our informant and found
the fish for us the first day there was somewhat safe ice
on Chetac.
Joey Dushek is my 22-year-old stepson, who is the
young guy in the group. Like the other guys, he is very
good at catching crappies in 26 feet of water with electronics.
My official position is that of head Fun Master. I come
up with a date each year that everyone works around
for this trip and I kind of suck at catching crappies in
deep water.
So we are staying at a really nice home on the water,
whose very kind owners are snowbirds (thank you). We
are using four-wheelers to travel and there is 4-5 inches
of ice. We are fishing in my Eskimo Fatfish, which is
about 13 feet by 8 feet and literally a cabin on the ice. For
this trip we are breaking in a brand new Fatfish that
is insulated and everyone is impressed.
After a three-hour drive and settling in, we hit the ice
at about 1 p.m. with a plan of fishing until somewhere
around midnight.
Today it is Paul, Joey, Chris and myself in the shack
with plenty of friends in nearby shacks. The crappie action is steady, but it is not a slaughter. Most of the action is about 6 feet off the bottom in 26 feet of water.
We also have tip-ups out that, at first, are set for ga-
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Rocky Mantik
757
Kurt Werner
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Kurt Werner
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263
Chad Lingen
688
Jan. 5: Sports Page 22, Klinner Insurance I 8; Nite Electric 20.5, Team
Stihl 9.5; 8th Street Saloon 21, Klinner Insurance II 9; Rockys Cozy
Kitchen 23.5, Piney Lane Farms 6.5; Krug Bus 26, KZ Electric 4;
Maple Island 20, Cindys Bar & Grill 10.

Thursday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. vs. Washington Wizards

Friday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m., vs. Charlotte Hornets

Wednesday, March 2, 7 p.m., vs. Indiana Pacers

Saturday, March 12, 6:30 p.m., vs. New Orleans
Pelicans

Sunday, March 20, 6 p.m., vs. Utah Jazz
This exclusive promotion includes a discounted ticket and blaze orange Bucks T-shirt for just $24 in the upper bowl and $42 in the lower bowl.
License holders can take advantage of this program
by going to the DNR website at dnr.wi.gov and putting
in the keyword DNR Nights in the search box.
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Tuesday Night Mixed League

Justin Smith
279
Rick Acker
705
Rick Acker
268
Gary Kohn
701
Jerry Scheismer
246
Justin Smith
682
Jan. 5: High View I 33, Fuzzys Bar 7; Medford Co-op 30, Riemer
Builders 10; Liske Marine 24, High View II 16.
Nights.
Anyone holding any 2015 Wisconsin hunting or fishing license is eligible for discounted tickets on select
home games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee. In addition, each ticket purchased through the
DNR Nights program will include a free blaze orange
Bucks t-shirt provided by Legendary Whitetails.
Hunting and fishing in Wisconsin is a time-honored
tradition, said DNR secretary Cathy Stepp. We are
thrilled to give those license holders an added benefit
they can use to spend time with their families.
The following dates are designated DNR Nights at
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tors and, as day became night, we switched over for

walleyes. Over the course of the weekend we caught five
snakes and no walleyes.
Our comfortable abode is lit with propane lights that
run off 20-pound cylinders. Later in the night, Paul heated up scalloped potatoes and ham.
At dark we had about 35 crappies between the four
of us that were all in the 9-inch range. Mr. Schiefelbein
likes to call them lobsters of the lake.
When we pulled tip-ups and headed to camp we had
about 70 extremely tasty crappies between the four of
us.
If you were outside of our shack and listening, you
would pretty much hear non-stop laughter.
Saturday, Jan. 2
High 32, Low 19
Today, Preston joined our ranks. I probably should
have charged the battery on my Vexilar (it showed the
pretty colors but not my jig). We caught a lot of fish and
we laughed a lot.
At one time I had a flag and missed a small fish right
at the hole. Chris Bein was watching the experience
and, as usual, verbally abusing me. Lo and behold I had
a line hooked onto my tip-up and though I had to pull
really hard I broke it off from the tree that it must have
been snagged on.
Chris starts pulling in the other end and there is
about a 24-inch snake on it and all the line from someones tip-up.
No ones flag went up so we figured it was a fish that
had been hooked a day or two earlier. When we showed
the guys the set up, Joey claimed it was his rig and I
may have put the entire spool into a very large mess.
Joeys flag never went up and there was some debate
as to why that may have happened.
Well after dark, I burned a precooked hot dish that
had kind of froze and even my dog would not eat.
This trip is so much fun that we must return next
year!
Sunset
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Milestones, Memories, Births, Engagements, Weddings
Field of Dreams and still learning after all these years

Ever since the movie Field of Dreams came out about
25 years ago, my wife Chris and I have tried to get to the
field and just see it once again the grass, small bleachers and corn out there, where some of the players disappear, etc. And where I can think my late father Leo
is out on the field, playing catch with me. Just playing
catch. Wish that could happen.
This time, just after we visited Chriss family for
Christmas in northern Missouri, we drove to Dyersville
to see the field once again. But there was a storm brewing, so we went out as soon as possible, with our Alaska
dog Avu. Night was almost there, and there was a chain
over the access road, but we carefully walked around
it with Avu and just looked around no corn, but certainly lots of memories .
At this point of late afternoon, we didnt expect any
other visitors. But virtually every time we come, there
are always surprises. Once, just after a thunderstorm,
who should appear, there suddenly there was a young
man on the mound, pitching to his wife. Turns out he
was a pitcher in the Chicago Cubs in Des Moines. He
had a day off, so they came to the Field of Dreams. Forgot his name, but I dont think I ever saw him with the
Cubs.
This time, we suddenly saw a fairly large vehicle. A
man got out, along with about four young people. They
were on their way back home to Caiifornia, but had to
stop in Dyersville, for a look at the Field of Dreams.
Chris offered to take a picture of the group and we talked about the movie for a bit, then all retreated to our
warm vehicles. It was cold, but the young man was bare
foot. Go figure.
One more magical moment at the Field of
Dreams. Hope there will be many more.
Crystal Frahmann and Michael Ecklund, Jr.
Frahmann-Ecklund
***
My friend Ron and I had been looking for an exciting
activity. It was a little early to begin picking stars in
fantasy baseball. And even too early to say 2016 will be
the year the Chicago Cubs will take it all.
Enter the Life-Long-Learning of the University of
Wisconsin - Marathon County. They were having another Good Ideas: A University Experience for Adults
A January thaw for your mind and spirit. Perfect.
It ran three days at the UW Marathon County facility
in Wausau. So we could drive back and forth each day
Earl Finkler with Avu at the Field of Dreams.

from Medford.
Each day began with coffee and then opened with a
speech by a noted authority. Topics started with The
Black Hawk War by Dr. John Hall, which focused on
Native Americans.
Then the next day on The History and Usage of
Ginseng 101 by Will Hsu made me want to go out
later and get some help with the maladies of aging.
Finally, Dr. Susan Knight of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She focused on The UW Trout Lake
Station: A Scientific Resource for Northern Wisconsin
and Beyond. It was great to get lots of information
about the health of this and other lakes. She said visitors are always welcome.
Then after a hearty lunch, there were a number
of smaller classes which ran every day. I took one on
Spanish History and Civilization and then also one on
Christianity and the Environment, which included
one of Pope Francis recent encyclicals on these topics.
All and all, a wonderful three days of thinking and
chatting with a host of others, a few even older than me.
Earl Finkler lives in Medford with his Greenland Husky Avu
and his wife, Chris.
Crystal Frahmann and Michael Ecklund, Jr. were

united in marriage on Sept. 26, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at St.
Pauls Lutheran Church in Medford, with Brian Mundt
officiating. She is the daughter of Robert and Rosemary
Frahmann of Medford. The grooms parents are Michael Ecklund, Sr. of Medford, and Jeff and Susan Peterson of Westboro. The bride was given in marriage
by her father.
Rachel Vach of Medford, friend of the couple, was
the matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Nicole Halida
of Withee, Heather Blasel, Jessica Frahmann, Nicole
Gebert, Katie Sackmann, and Britanny Viergutz, all of
Medford.
Eric Vach of Medford, friend of the couple, was the
best man. Groomsmen were Ryan Viergutz, Jared Metz,
Jake Sackmann and Clint Spreen, all of Medford.
Kaedence Ecklund of Medford was the flower girl.
Karson Ecklund of Medford was the ring bearer. Ushers
were Joshua and Jonathan Frahmann, both of Medford.
A reception was held at the Simek Recreation Center
in Medford with 180 guests. The couple plans to take a
honeymoon in the future.
The bride is a 2002 graduate of Medford Area Senior
High and graduated from Northcentral Technical College with a medical assistant diploma. She is a certified
medical assistant at Aspirus Medford.
The groom is a 2002 graduate of Medford Area Senior
High. He is a diesel mechanic at John S. Olynick.
Births
Tanner Claude Cahoon
Michelle (Williams) and William Cahoon of Medford
announce the birth of a son, Tanner Claude, born on Jan.
6, 2016 at Aspirus Medford Hospital - Birthing Center.
He weighed eight pounds one ounce and was 19.5 inches
long. He joins three sisters: Grace, age 8; Chloe, age 3;
and Kendyl, age 2. His grandparents are Mike and Becky
Williams of Medford, and Craig and Penny Cahoon of
Stetsonville. His great-grandparents are John and Betty
Lorenz of Lublin, George and Carol Mudgett of Jump
River, Dave and Shirely Williams of Medford, and Jim
and Jorji-Ann Wakeland of Lyndon Station. His greatgreat-grandmothers are Clementine (Tina) Sebunia of
Lublin and Jean Lorenz of Thorp.
Melanie Ann Dunlop
ShowCase Players announce

cast for winter production
2-157332
Now in their 31st year of community theatre, the

ShowCase Players will present the hilarious comedy
Cooking with Gus by Jim Brochu Thursday, Feb. 4
through Sunday the Feb. 7 on the Colby High School
Stage.
The show features cast members Dawn Kasper-Harder of Medford, Dustin Schlinsog of Granton, Elaine Haas
of Abbotsford and Jordan Clark of Rib Mountain. This
production is directed by Kevin Wyeth, Curtiss and produced by Jeffer Scheuer, Owen.
Ashley and Matthew Dunlop of Merrill announce the

birth of a daughter, Melanie Ann, born on January 4,
2016 at Aspirus Womens Health Birthing Center at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. She weighed eight pounds, 8.2
ounces and was 19.6 inches long. Her grandparents are
William and Ronda Brietzke of Merrill and Robert and
Tammy Dunlop of Westboro.
Adeline Joy Walters

Lindsey and Barry Walters of Cornell announce the
birth of a daughter, Adeline Joy, born on Dec. 22, 2015 at
St. Josephs Hospital in Chippewa Falls.
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2, 2015
2016
Paying tribute
The world is a little different today than it was just a
few days ago. You may have heard of the death of William P. Wedeking, and many of you know Bills story,
but as a veterans advocate, I felt compelled to tell a bit
of his story for those who, like me, may have never had
the opportunity to meet him.
Bill was born on Dec. 15, 1921 in Armstrong Creek, a
small town in Forest County in Northeast Wisconsin.
After graduating Goodman High School in 1940, Bill
worked for a while as a lumberjack in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Bill enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army Air Corps
at Wausau on Sept. 4, 1940, all of 5 feet, 8 inches tall and
145 lbs. Bill began his Army training at Scott Field, Ill.
Several months later, while serving at Fort Slocum,
New York on April 28, 1941 Bill earned the Soldiers
Medal for heroism.
The citation reads Upon being informed that a man
was drowning in the bay, Private First Class Wedeking
immediately ran to the scene and, with utter disregard
for his safety, jumped into the water, despite the cold
and darkness. He located the drowning man and, with
great difficulty, succeeded in bringing him safely to
shore, thereby saving his life.
Shortly after Bill was re-assigned to Borinquen
Field, Puerto Rico and for 16 months was a tower operator. Bill went on to earn the rank of corporal before
he was selected to attend the Infantry Officer Candidate
Course and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant
on Dec. 1, 1942. He was assigned to the newly activated
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division where he became an airborne paratrooper. Brave
men jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, something
never heard of by most people, let alone would volunteer for.
As was his routine, Bill earned the highest qualification as a Master Parachutist and Jump Master as well
as Ranger. Bills unit jumped into Normandy on D-Day
where Bill was wounded by a German hand grenade
and captured on June 7, 1944.
He escaped with the help of the French Underground
the next day. He was immediately sent back to England
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From past files of The Star News
10 YEARS AGO
January 12, 2006
A plan to use room tax money to
pay for a proposed city roofing project
drew fire from within the Medford City
Council Monday night.
It shouldnt come out of room tax
money. That wasnt set up for us to do
roofs and roads, said Alderman Tom
Gebert suggesting that instead the
project should be budgeted through the
citys general fund.
The former Medford Public Library
building at the intersection of Perkins
Ave. and Main Street has a leaky roof.
The building is owned by the city and
has been leased to the Medford Area
Chamber of Commerce since July 1999.
City Coordinator John Fales says the
roof needs to be replaced and suggested
paying the estimated $27,000 it will cost
from the citys hotel/motel room tax
fund over the next three years. In the
third year, Fales suggested they could
use some of the money to replace the
buildings furnace from the room tax
fund.
25 YEARS AGO
January 16, 1991
Until the Simek Recreation Center
opened this year, the City of Medford
maintained an outdoor ice skating rink
at City Park. The rink was lighted and
featured a warming shack.
Now, however, the City has closed
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for a week
to treat his
wounds. On
Sept. 17, 1944,
Bill jumped
into Holland
during Operation Market Garden.
Bill was the
Jump Master
on his plane,
responsible
for the all
the men on his stick getting out the door safely and at
the right time. A mistake could cause death or injury
and cause men to miss the drop zone and land in enemy
territory. Bill was wounded in September and again in
November on the Holland front. Bill fought through the
battles in Normandy, the Rhineland and Central Europe earning the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart
for wounds, the Combat Infantrymans Badge and the
World War II Victory medal. After the war Bill was
assigned to Japan from 1946 1947. He returned to the
states long enough to marry Ottice Nikki Oleane
Nickerson in Macon, Ga.
Bill was assigned to the Far East Command, Tokyo,
Japan in 1950 under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Bill
participated in the Inchon landing and the invasion of
North Korea as well as other battles where he earned
the Korean Service Medal with three bronze service
stars, United Nations Service Medal, and the Republic
of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. When he returned
to the states he served as an advisor with the Wisconsin National Guard and eventually wound up back in
Germany and France for a time. Bill retired from the
Army in Dec. 1961 after more than 21 years of service
and receiving 26 decorations. He lived his life between
North Carolina and Wisconsin, raising his children and
married to his wife Nikki for 66 years until her death
in 2013.
On July 27, 2011, French President Sarkozy appoint-
that rink, and has accepted the Youth

Hockey Associations offer to use an outdoor rink next to the Simek Center. That
rink is also lighted, and skaters can go
inside the Simek Center to warm up, but
some residents would like to see the old
rink put back in use at the park.
We fell the City rink in the park is
more centrally located, and there was no
cost to the skaters, Judy Gruhlke said,
And we would like to know why the
City closed it down? Gruhlke was the
spokesperson for about a dozen residents
who showed up at last weeks Council
meeting.
City Clerk/Treasurer Bill Mattson explained that in exchange for $6,000 worth
of indoor ice time at the Simek Center
purchased by the City, the Hockey Association had agreed to flood and maintain
an outdoor rink next to the Center for
the general public to use.
ed Bill as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for valorous action in defense of the Republic of France. Bill
passed away Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 in Medford leaving
the world a different place by his absence. Captain William P. Bill Wedeking will be interred with honors in
Arlington National Cemetery. I regret that I never met
this exceptional man and I know that many here in our
community knew him well and heard his many stories.
Bill was active after his service with telling of his experiences and for those who would like to know more,
I recommend several books that talk about Bill and his
unit in World War II by Ian Gardner; Tonight We Die
As Men, Deliver Us From Darkness, and No Victory
In Valhalla, all stories about the 3rd Battalion, 506th
Parachute Infantry Regiment and their combat experience from the Normandy invasion to the end of the war.
To Bill and to many others like him, we are forever in
your debt. Thank you for your service.
Financial aid night Jan. 25

Medford High School will hold its annual financial
aid information night on Monday, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in
the Red/White Theater. The meeting is open to the public, but directed mainly at current high school seniors
planning to attend a two- or four- year college, technical college, or trade school during the 2016-2017 school
year.
A college access advisor from Great Lakes Higher
Education will give a presentation covering the financial aid process, procedures for completing forms, and
changes in the system for the coming school year. Information required to apply for financial aid for the 20162017 school year will be available.
The program is expected to last approximately one
hour and will be followed by an opportunity to ask specific financial aid questions. For more information,
contact the high schools guidance department at 715748-595l.
75 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO
January 16, 1941
January 12, 1916
Clifford L. Curran, cashier of the First

National bank of Rib Lake, stated yesterday that the institution is being taken
over by the State Bank of Medford. This
move was decided upon a few weeks ago
but no definite action was taken on it until this week.
The Medford bank assumes the liabilities of the depositors of the Rib Lake
bank in consideration of taking over the
assets of the bank, Curran explained. He
added that there will be no officers and
that a receiving and disbursing station
will be maintained by the Medford bank
at Rib Lake.
Mr. A. J. Sones celebrated his 83rd

birth anniversary last week. His many
friends hope that he may see many returns of the day.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Williams will reach
their 25th wedding anniversary Sunday. Relatives will assist them in remembering the event.
A committee of W. R. C. ladies
passed a pleasant evening Wednesday
with Mrs. Suits, after work was finished light refreshments were served.
Remember When Jan. 2006
50 YEARS AGO
January 13, 1966
Fire fanned by high wind Monday
afternoon destroyed the nine-room, twostory farm residence of the Frank Matykas in the town of Greenwood near
Rib Lake. The Matyka family, which
includes seven children, saved only the
clothing they were wearing.
Rib Lake fire chief Frank Yanko estimated the loss, which included the
building and all furnishings, at more
than $16,000. Firemen concentrated their
efforts on saving other farm buildings,
making two trips to a nearby creek when
the original supply of water was exhausted. Pumping water from the creek was a
problem because of the limited supply.
The alarm was placed at 2 oclock and
when the trucks arrived on the scene the
fire had raged out of control. It was reported that Mrs. Matyka was unable to
call from her home and had to run to a
neighbor to place the alarm. Mr. Matyka
was in Medford at the time of the fire.
Heidi L. Blasel, 18, Stetsonville, and Thomas A. Brost, 45, Medford, were transported for medical treatment following a two vehicle accident on Jan. 6 on Hwy 13
at Black Birch Drive in the town of Little Black. According to the accident report,
Blasel was southbound on Hwy 13 when the Brost vehicle pulled out from a stop
sign in front of her vehicle. Both vehicles sustained severe damage.
NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS
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The North Central Wisconsin Master Gardener Association (NCWMG) and UW-Extension will host Garden
Visions Conference for northern climate gardeners Friday and Saturday, Jan. 22-23 at Northcentral Technical
College in Wausau.
Garden Visions begins Friday evening with a slow
food dinner. Wausau chef Clint Schultz of Urban Bistro
will team up with Megan Cain to present the second annual slow food dinner. Cain will give the after dinner
presentation 10 Mistakes I Made In My Vegetable Garden So You Dont Have To.
On Saturday, attendees will have an opportunity
to listen to national and regional speakers, view educational exhibits, enjoy Garden Visions photography
contest submissions, register for a raffle, meet and
greet the speakers, authors, vendors and shop. Keynote
speaker Kerry Ann Mendez of Kennebunk, Maine will
discuss Design Tips for Knockout, Easy-Care Gardens
with Great Curb Appeal. Mendez is dedicated to teaching the art of low-maintenance perennial gardening and
landscaping. As a garden designer, author and lecturer,
she focuses on time-saving gardening techniques, workhorse plants and sustainable practices.
The conference is open to the public and you do not
have to be a Master Gardener to attend. Pre-registrations must be postmarked or submitted on-line by Jan.
18. Walk-in registration for Friday and Saturday will be
accepted on the day of, however, session choices may be
limited and there will be no lunch for walk-ins.
For registration information, visit the Garden Vision website at http://www.gardenvisions.org. For
more information about the conference, visit NCWMGs
website at http://fyi.uwex.edu/marathonmg/.
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Operator (7:00 PM-7:00 AM)
The Taylor County Human Services Department has an immediate full-time limited-term opening for a
(CCS) Comprehensive Community Services Service Facilitator. The CCS Facilitator provides community
support services to people affected by substance abuse and/or severe and persistent mental illness.
The CCS Facilitator supports the consumer in a manner that achieves the highest possible level of independent functioning, facilitates the assessment process, documents, mentors and performs discharge
planning for the service plan.
Safely operates production equipment and systems for all products manufactured. Monitors
efciency of production processes via computerized systems and visual inspection of
large equipment. Understands sequence of plant operations, control systems, piping, etc.
Troubleshoots and adjusts operational problems. Performs plant inspections for equipment
and process problems. Performs quality control tests and logs results, works closely with
lab staff. Requires at least a high school education or equivalent. Experience working in a
process production environment with an understanding of process ow is highly desirable.
Requires lifting (approx. 75 lbs.), bending, twisting, climbing at heights above 100ft., reaching,
and squatting as well as conned space entry.
Applicants must possess a Bachelors Degree in Social Work, Human Services or closely related eld.
Prior work experience in the service delivery to people with substance abuse and/or severe and persistent mental illness are preferred. Eligibility for or Social Work Certication is preferred. A valid drivers
license is required.
A completed Taylor County application is required to be considered for this position. An electronic and
printable application is available at www.co.taylor.wi.us/employment/. Applications will be accepted
until Monday, January 25, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. by:
AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
2-157450
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

TAYLOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE
224 S. 2ND STREET, MEDFORD, WI 54451
Email: human.resources@co.taylor.wi.us
Pre-employment drug screen, physical, and background check required.

Please submit a rsum or application (available at our
ofce or online at www.aceethanol.com) to:
Ace Ethanol, LLC
Attn: Joanna Hart
815 W. Maple St.
Stanley, WI 54768
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The Price County has an opening for the position of
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removal operations and scheduling of personnel for all
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2010 Ford Crown Vic with 115,754 miles
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14 Ford F150 C/C XLT, chrome certified..........................$29,000
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12 Dodge Journey SXT....................................................$14,988
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12 Ford Fiesta Hatchback................................................$10,900
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10 Ford Fusion SE...........................................................$12,988
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08 Ford Taurus Limited......................................................$8,900
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03 Ford Escape 4x4...........................................................$5,900
03 Buick Rendevous 4x4...................................................$4,900
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Gilman girls nearly knock off

Columbus, push ranked Falcons
First points
Gilmans Camryn Skabroud shoots a layup under heavy pressure from Flambeaus
Brooke Stersa during last Thursdays non-conference girls basketball game. The basket
was the Pirates first of the game.
Seven firsts at
Marathon for youth
wrestling team
The Medford Wrestling Club got its
season off to a strong start on Sunday,
earning seven first-place finishes at the
Marathon Match Up Youth Tournament.
Teagen Hanson, Ronnie Hoernke,
Logan Kawa, Thad Sigmund, Jett Rau,
Braxton Weissmiller and Grant Neubauer were Medfords champions. They
werent alone in their success.
Troy Duellman, Rachel Sova, Jude
Stark, Gage Losiewicz and Parker Lissner took second in their brackets. Evan
Pagel, Jacob Doyle, Hunter Jochimsen,
Gaige Ingersoll, Max Losiewicz, Cory
Lindahl, Ty Sova, William Bartnik,
Owen Higgins, Paxton Rothmeier and
Ashton Wehe all finished third.
Shane Kiselicka, Jordy Lavin, Wyatt
Dahl, Easton Ackerman, Jonathan Bartnik and Kaden Miller were fourth-place
finishers.
EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCE

Conf.
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Jan. 7: Flambeau 47, Gilman 33; Loyal 70,
Greenwood 25; Owen-Withee 62, Spencer 50;
Colby 60, Columbus Catholic 48.
Jan. 8: Neillsville 60, Nekoosa 26.
Jan. 9: Barneveld 51, Loyal 40; Greenwood 72,
Cornell 32.
Jan. 11: Columbus Catholic 74, Athens 51;
Abbotsford 62,Granton 21.
Jan. 12: Columbus Catholic 50, Gilman 47;
Loyal 69, Owen-Withee 32; Spencer 54, Greenwood 43 Neillsville 78, Granton 19; Marathon 52,
Colby 30.
Jan. 15: Gilman at Greenwood, Neillsville
at Loyal, Owen-Withee at Spencer, Colby at
Granton.
Jan. 18: Cornell at Gilman, Colby at Medford,
Edgar at Owen-Withee, Granton at Thorp.
Jan. 19: Greenwood at Columbus Catholic,
Spencer at Auburndale.
Jan. 21: Loyal at Gilman, Columbus Catholic
at Greenwood, Spencer at Colby, Owen-Withee at
Granton, Neillsville at Black River Falls.
Senior Morgan Birkenholz scored 12

points in her return to the Gilman Pirates lineup, but the Columbus Catholic
Dons claimed a 50-47 Eastern Cloverbelt
girls basketball win Tuesday night in
Marshfield.
Birkenholz missed the Pirates tilt
against Flambeau last Thursday with
the flu, but returned with a vengeance,
adding a season-high 13 rebounds to her
season-high scoring mark. It was her
first double-double of the season.
It was nice having Morgan healthy
again. She was very aggressive rebounding, Gilman head coach Robin Rosemeyer said.
Despite a 1-for-13 start from the field,
the Pirates took a 21-20 lead into halftime. Gilman finished the game 16-for-47
(.340) from the floor.
Columbuss offense turned the game
around in the second half. The Dons
were 11-for-21 (.524) from the field over
the final 18 minutes. Gilman led 27-25
with 12 minutes to play and was fourfor-seven from three-point range in the
half, but the Dons rallied for the late win.
Marissa Immerfall led Columbus with 13
points. Baylie Neider had 12 points and
Abby Baierl had 10.
Its frustrating when you look back.
We were one defensive rebound and one
shot away from winning the game. They
always seemed to make the big basket
once we got close, Rosemeyer said.
Kyla Schoene scored 13 to lead Gilman. The senior was three-for-five from
the field and made seven free throws.
Kayla Chause tallied six points, her highest total since the season opener on Nov.
20, and added five rebounds and two assists. Taylor Hendricks made two threepointers on her way to eight points. Camryn Skabroud scored six points on two
threes and had three assists.
We gave ourselves a chance and the
kids competed hard. Weve got to stay
consistent offensively, Rosemeyer said.
The Pirates (2-9, 2-6 ECC) have lost
four straight since a 58-23 win over
Granton on Dec. 18. Theyre a half-game
back of Columbus (5-7, 2-5 ECC), who sits
alone in sixth in the conference. Gilman
travels to Greenwood to start the second
round of East competition tomorrow,
Friday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Next Monday,
the Pirates host Cornell in the first game
of a non-conference girls-boys doubleheader, scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m.
Loss to Flambeau
Despite a limited lineup, Gilman hung
around long enough to put an upset scare
into the visiting Flambeau Falcons in
Thursday nights girls basketball game.
Flambeau entered ranked sixth in Division 5 by the AP, but shooting struggles
and scrappy play from the home Pirates
only yielded a 47-33 non-conference win.
The Falcons were without their leading
scorer, forward Jordan Ludescher (12.7
ppg), whos out for the year after tearing her ACL in the teams Dec. 29 loss to
Bloomer.
Theyre not quite the same without
Jordan in the lineup. She wreaks havoc
at the top of their 1-3-1, Gilman head
coach Robin Rosemeyer said.
Brooke Sterba, a 6-1 post, picked up
the scoring slack for Flambeau. The senior scored 16 points and did most of her
damage from the free throw line, going
six-for-eight. She was five-for-16 (.313)
from the field.
They have a good high-low game
against our zone. They ran a few set
plays that got her open, Rosemeyer said.

Schoene led all scorers with 17 points
on four of six field goals and nine of 14
free throws. The Pirates were without
starting point guard Birkenholz (flu). Elevated to a starting role, Chause fouled
out just 20 seconds into the second half
after racing back to stop a Lindsey Alberson fast-break. The junior finished with
zero points.
Down 20-12 at halftime, Gilman got as
close as five points with 11 minutes to go.
With the score 28-18, Schoene split two
defenders for a layup. Burton made a free
throw and Hendricks hit a pullup jumper
to make it a 28-23 game.
Hendricks played more on the ball in
Birkenholzs absence. The junior scored
five points before fouling out with 7:51
left in the second half, the Pirates down
33-26 at the time. Sterba and Amanda
Zimmer both hit a pair of foul shots to extend Flambeaus lead to 11.
Sherfield made a free throw, but Sterba scored a layup and made another free
throw to push the lead to 12. Schoene
made four free throws in the final 3:22,
but couldnt pull Gilman closer.
The Pirates opened the first half with
a 6:20 scoreless streak, allowing the Falcons to build a 9-0 advantage. Schoene
found Skabroud under the basket for a layup, Gilmans first points of the game at
the 11:40 mark. After beginning the game
in man defense, Flambeau switched to
their usual 1-3-1 trap. With 11 minutes
until halftime, Hendricks found herself
trapped in the left corner after crossing
half-court. She fired a long pass to Burton
under the basket, who scored the layup
while being fouled.
I thought we did a good job moving
the ball against their defense. We got decent looks, but when one team shoots the
ball 22 more times, its a pretty big deal,
Rosemeyer said.
Schoene scored a floater off an inbound play to put Gilman down three at
11-8.
A pair of Falcons threes, one each
from Alberson and Morgan Ludescher,
helped the visitors build an 18-9 lead.
Burton and Monson played their most
extensive minutes of the season. Burton
scored a season-high five points. Monson was held scoreless, but did grab five
rebounds. The Pirates were eight-for-32
(.250) from the field, compared to Flambeaus 13-for-54 (.241).
Alberson was second for the Falcons
with 11 points. Hannah and Morgan Ludescher scored five each and Hailey Verdegan and Zimmer scored four.
The win snapped a two-game losing
streak for Flambeau. The Falcons won
each of their first six games by 30 or
more. The largest was a 64-7 dismantling
of New Auburn on Dec. 8. Flambeau is
7-0 against Div. 5 schools this year. Both
their losses came against larger schools,
Div. 3 Bloomer and Div. 4 Glenwood City.
With Gilman and Flambeau seemingly headed for seedings at opposite ends
of the WIAA Div. 5 Chetek-Weyerhauser
regional, the two could meet again in a
potential first or second round playoff
game.
We couldve attacked their 1-3-1
more. Theyre not a great outside shooting team, other coaches have said to
make them shoot over the top. Sterba has
to be contained, Rosemeyer said about a
potential playoff rematch.
Its been a while since the two schools
have met on the court. Flambeau won the
last meeting, a first round Div. 4 playoff
game on Feb. 24, 2004, by a 60-28 score.

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January 14, 2016

SERVING T AYLOR COUNTY SINCE 1875

Wrestlers hold off

Rib Lake snowshoe

photo by Bryan Wegter

One vehicle crash

Museum seeks Main St. green space

Hueys Hideaway wants to

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Neighbor-to-Neighbor of Taylor County, Inc.

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How long have you been around and where

Who are some of the local key people to

Volunteers helped with a yard clean up in Medford.

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

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Medford. Information: Kelly Emmerich

Meeting 6:30 p.m. Legion Clubhouse,

7-Day Forecast for Medford, Wisconsin

Last weeks weather recorded at the Medford Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Weather forecast information from the National Weather Service in La Crosse

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Council says follow policy, cut down tree

photo by Brian Wilson

In other business, aldermen:

Recommended approval of a new

rules. There was a concern raised if by

Recommended increasing the

Reviewed the building permit

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Did someone say cookies?

Dr. Joseph Zondlo

photo by Brian Wilson

Rep. Edming supports

Rep. James W. Edming (R-Glen Flora) supported four

Group seeks lot for outdoor activities, events

was if the city would give the museum the city-owned

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Many hands work

photos by Brian Wilson

Rubys Pantry starts online registration for food

Patrons will still be able to arrive and pay the day

through the Ole

The Pine Line Rail Trail will open for snowmobiles

An article in the Jan. 7 issue of The Star News had the

Distribution will be held at

Pine Line to open for snowmobiles

Country Cowboy Church

Abundance of groceries for

$20.00 cash donation

Please bring your own containers for groceries

Phone 715-678-2381 or 715-748-2944 or

Starting in Jan. 2016

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Dont throw consumers to the wolves

The debt collecting companies attempt to collect on

Immigration reform needed to deal with undocumented residents

Quote of the Week:

so-called Great Recession, the nations

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