I would like to give a big thank you to all the folks who donated their time and or money to pull off the community Thanksgiving dinner hosted by The Replay. The Replay staff worked hard and supplied food along with Trillium Bakery. As I watched Courtney Arts and Laura[Read More…]

With Thanksgiving this week, I am reminded of all the things I have in life that I should be thankful for.I am thankful we have a roof over our heads; our home is warm in the winter and dry in the rainy season. Even though we don’t have air conditioning[Read More…]

It’s November already, this year is flying by from my perspective. However, this election cycle seemed to have lasted forever, and I for one, am happy it’s over.I have no idea how things went as I write this, but I hope my candidates did well, and if they didn’t, I[Read More…]

The newspaper you are reading is the last one the Medford Mail Tribune will print for us. After 11 years, nearly 575 editions of the Illinois Valley News later, they have quit printing newspapers and have gone all digital.While we have fixed the problem by finding a new printer, there[Read More…]

On Friday, Sept. 16, late in the afternoon, I received an email from our newspaper print staff at the Medford Mail Tribune, stating they were going to go all digital and shut down their press operations at the month’s end.They gave me two weeks’ notice to find a new printer,[Read More…]

I just had a guy, maybe 40, come in and ask why we were stopping the print product. While he smelled the paper. He said, “You can’t get this smell from a computer screen.” I laughed and replied, “You can’t swat a fly with a computer either.”Over the past month,[Read More…]