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Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL January 27, 2011 Current News Tax Form Available at the Prescott Library The Prescott Public Library is happy to help you find the tax forms you need for federal and state income taxes. The library has on hand copies of several basic forms, schedules and instruction booklets from the IRS and from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. These copies are available free of charge.

All forms, schedules and instruction booklets may be downloaded from www.

irs.gov and from www.revenue. wi.gov for no charge.

Library staff can help you find and print forms that the library doesn’t have on hand. The library charges 10 cents per page for every page printed. For more information, please contact the Prescott Public Library at 715-262-5555 or see our website at www.

prescottpubliclibrary.org. Snowshoeing at the Carpenter Nature Center Here at Carpenter Nature Center we’ve had a stellar year for snowshoeing. Our January Moonlight Snowshoe Hike sold out and there are only 13 spots left for the February 18th Moonlight Snowshoe Hike. As always if there are at least 6 inches of snow without an icy top surface you can rent snowshoes at Carpenter Nature Center and hike our tracked snowshoe trails. A two-hour snowshoe rental is free for CNC volunteers and members, and only $5 for two hours for everyone else. To register for our Moonlight Hike program please contact our office: 651-437 Quote of the Week “Because property values are higher in Prescott than in other areas of Wisconsin, the Prescott School District receives less state aid than most school districts.”— Prescott School Superintendent Roger Hulne Prescott Journal joins the world wide web by Kimberly Adams Readers of the Prescott Journal may have noticed some changes in recent weeks. The newspaper has undergone a print redesign thanks to our talented production manager Patrizia Streit. Starting this week, the Prescott Journal can be found live on the world wide web at (www.thepaperboy. news).

People around the country and throughout the world get their news through online sources.

Many small community newspapers have jumped on the internet bandwagon and have websites in addition to their print publications. However, in some small communities, the local newspaper is not online at all. In fact, some experts in the publishing business say that the internet is killing the newspaper industry.

I’ve spoken with several editors and publishers in the last two years who don’t have their newspapers on the internet. Some of them said that they didn’t want to give away the product for free, while others said that most of their subscribers lived in remote areas and don’t have access to the internet. Other publications cater to mostly an older retirement crowd that don’t know how to use a computer and would much rather sit at the breakfast table with a morning newspaper in hand.

The internet as we know it today was unheard of during by college years in the early 1990’s. I had to job hunt the old fashioned way: I mailed out packets of my published clips to every editor and publisher in every town I wanted to live in. Newspapers were still cutting and pasting pages on light boards. The phone, library, the legal section, town meetings and word on the street was the only way that news made it into the hands of new reporters such as myself. No one knew the difference between an email address and a web address. The classified section was the only source to find jobs.

Social networking consisted of meeting people faceto- face.

According to a survey conducted by the National Newspaper Association publish last December, 73 percent of those surveyed said they read their local newspaper at least once a week. Fifty three of the 73 percent that said they read their local newspaper at least once a week said they also visit their local newspaper’s website. They survey was based on 670 telephone interviews with residents living in communities with populations of 8,000 or less that had newspapers with circulation numbers of less than 15,000.

The Prescott Journal’s website is in its infancy.

There is lots of room to grow You can contact the Prescott Journal at (715-873-8078)…Now, you can visit the Prescott Journal at (www.thepaperboy.news).

25 Years Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL “Where the St. Croix meets the Mississippi” January 11,1996 City council decides against buying old Journal building for police department by R. E. Herman The city offered owner Norm Moshou $55,000 and two city lots for the old Prescott Journal building that is under consideration as a possible new police department location.

Moshou’s counter offers were presented to the council during last Monday’s meeting.

Mayor Richman told the council that Moshou had rejected their offer and proposed two options as counter offers.

The first was that the city pay $60,000 in cash and give him the 2.458 acre lot to the east of city hall. According to Richman, the lot in question is on the market for $43,000, making the total payment $103,000 Moshou’s second proposal was that the city simply pay $95,000 cash for the building. Council member Greg Harris pointed out that in order the use the building the city would have to run additional water and sewer to it at an estimated cost of $17,000.

Including the necessary remodeling, the council estimated that the total cost of purchasing and converting the old Journal building into a new police department would be $252,000.

“I don’t think that shell is worth $95,000,” said council member Joe O’Brien.

Bub Harris, who was in the audience, had several questions about the building.

“We need this police station for certain, but do we need it on the side of a hill?” Harris asked.

“It sounds like you could put up a new building for approximately the same price,” said Harris. “There must be another piece of land someplace.”

“I think we need to look at more,” said council member Diane House.

“I don’t think we’ve done enough research” (story continues).

Prescott Library News An “Open Book” from the director of the library by Julie Green, Prescott Library A wise old sixth century sage said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” This seems to be a word of wisdom for us here at the Prescott Public Library. We have begun our thousand-mile hike with great pleasure as we can look back to see the things that have ben accomplished, and look down the road to many more good things to come.

Automation seems to be in the line of things. The card catalog is online, as are two IBM computers full of great programs such as Page Maker for desktop publishing. Make-a-Booklet programs and, of course, the almighty Microsoft Dinosaurs, just to name a few.

Some of the other services now offered at the library are the capabilities to do simple bindings of documents, archival preservation of those special rare documents, color printing for signs and banners, and an additional 230 audio books on tape for all you commuters. We also have the Internet access and are able to do searches.

Along with these added services and items to meet your informational needs comes the need for more staff people. We are going to begin the search for a part-time children’s librarian and technical services person. This will greatly enhance the programs for children that we will be able to offer. Children are our future and we must provide a library ready to meet them in every way.

35 Years Ago THE PRESCOTT JOURNAL January 9,1986 Glenwood woman is 1 st traffic death The first traffic fatality of the new year was recorded Saturday, Jan. 4, 1986 when a Glenwood City woman died at the scene of an accident in Spring Valley.

Gretchen L. Narum, 34, of Rt. 1, Glenwood City, died in a two vehicle accident at 2:06 p.m., and was pronounced dead at the scene by Pierce County Coroner Dr. E. R. Jonas.

55 Years Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL January 6,1966 UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST TO OBSERVE DEDICATION OF SANCTUARY ON SUNDAY The United Church of Christ in Prescott will observe the 50th anniversary of the dedication of its sanctuary Sunday afternoon, January 9th. The church organization is 114 years old, but the present sanctuary was built in 1915.