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Retired Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Tom Renz was presented earlier this month with the 2018 Passageways to Peace Award by the New Day…
Washburn’s coal dock rehabilitation project will begin Monday, Washburn Harbor Commission President Carl Broberg announced this week.
Our Pet of the Week this week is Iambic Pentameter, named for the meter (or rhythm) of several of the most famous kinds of poems and plays. He…
The Washburn School District, a Green and Healthy School since 2009, is not mandated to deliver a “green and healthy” education. It chooses to…
Greta Kochevar and Lori Filbert met in the Washburn High School cafeteria the week before classes started to talk about what’s growing in the …
BAYFIELD – A group of Norwegian settlers who sunk their roots in Bayfield in 1893 are being remembered 125 years later by the 60 families who …
Many decades ago, shortly after putting her young children to bed, Margaret Hahn was scrolling though the TV channels when she stumbled upon a…
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Outdoorsman Mark Parman will be at Redbery Books Aug. 30 from 6:30 mp.m. to 7:30 p.m. to sign copies of his latest book.
WASHBURN – Students in the Washburn School District will encounter some changes – some visible, some not – when they return to class this fal…
It’s a warm August Thursday at Farmstead. Pizzas are rolling from the wood-fired oven, the parking lot is crowded, and the hat full of prompts…
Executive Director of the Wisconsin River Alliance Raj Shukla will speak Aug. 23 in Cable on how to be a water champion. He will explore the w…
BAYFIELD – Apostle Islands Cruises has added a new vessel to its fleet that will allow it to expand tours around the islands on a ship that is…
A forty-five minute wait at 4:30pm? Hmm, what does this tell me? 1. I have chosen a good eating establishment. 2. I have chosen to arrive too …
After my spectacular hike up to the Harding Ice Field in Kenai Fjords National Park, I wanted to do more than just look down onto the complex …
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I must open with a correction. It is too late for the primary election; however, my readers should know for the November vote: You contact you…
WASHBURN – A two-year effort spearheaded by a grassroots group of local moms has transformed a neighborhood park into a modern play space for kids.
An art workshop for adults, Plein Air: Pastel Painting, will take place Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at CHARAC Art Center, 42790 Highway 63 …
Like many of his counterparts on the Great Frontier Bull Riding circuit, entertainer Dalton Morris has a passion for what he does.
With carnival rides, kids’ games, live music, grandstand shows and 4H, fun there was plenty to do at the Bayfield County Fair in Ironwood over…
I was headed south on Highway 13 this week when I stopped to get gasoline at a place called the Bear Crossing in Glidden.
Homicide charges were filed Wednesday against two men who are accused of killing an Odanah man last fall.
A power outage that left almost 5,000 people without electricity Thursday morning was caused by a tree that fell on a line.
Onboard the little schooner known as the Abbey Road, Lake Superior Tall Ships has taken more than 2,700 kids and adults from the area sailing …
It’s a shame that The Mavericks often are thrown into the catch-all bin of country music with such disparate artists as Willie Nelson and Reba…
From Great Frontier Bull Riding, an antique tractor pull and dirt dash to the Bear Hollow Wood Carvers and the Chicago Honey Bears Dancers, vi…
Bright sun poked through scattered clouds as I boarded a bus at the Denali Park Depot. Ever since my graduate advisor and then a classmate tol…
Two Washburn natives, Sorley Swanstrom-Arnold and Amanda Heglund, performed at the Shell Lake Arts Center’s final Show Choir performance Frida…
Sitting in my little back porch, the one with the tall screens, I am outdoors but not outside. The outside is in, but the bugs and rain are ou…