With a heavy heart I have to tell readers that longtime community columnist Amy Barker is going to stop writing her column at the end of the month.
As I look out on Chequamegon Bay this morning from my typical writing spot at The Sandbar in Ashland, I see a gray day mirrored by a gray Bay.…
We are getting into the middle of August now and for we crowd-watchers the signs we pay attention to are telling us something is up. Here in R…
Last week, I watched the movie “Thirteen Lives,” which is the recently released dramatization of the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer c…
You have to give state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos credit.
In this place, we are We. We are part of each other, a current beneath the waves of visitors. We are a bright stream of humanity upon the edge…
Several years ago, when I was the opinion page editor at another newspaper, I wrote a column about the surging success of American female athletes.
We are getting into the latter part of summer now and some of us are thinking of coming up for air. Those of we oldsters – the grey-haired one…
So, here’s my idea: ready? During the month of August find a time to make like a tourist … and sit. Just sit. Find somewhere in the hustly-bus…
Last Saturday night – and then Sunday as well – dinner consisted of tomato sandwiches, sweet corn and chilled honeydew melon for dessert.
Talk about some strange bedfellows.
This morning I enjoyed a bowl of fresh-picked red raspberries with a pouring of cold milk and a light sprinkling of sugar. Yes, local berries,…
This week I had a crash course in planned obsolescence when our refrigerator stopped working. I consider our refrigerator to be brand new. Aft…
In 2019, a Mason man went around traffic stopped at a construction barricade, drove along the shoulder of Highway 112 near Highway 2 and then …
This day in our Northland, this is what I see: A perfect sandcastle. A perfect smile on an 11-year-old face. A perfect blue sky. A perfect 80-…
This morning when on our regular outing my daughter’s two dogs and I stepped into a nice, cool woods. We took our usual pause at the start for…
Nine days before Christmas in 1911, a young Ashland mother asked a friend to take care of her 1-year-old daughter, then walked across town to …
In the past two issues of the Ashland Daily Press, if you were so inclined to have read the stories, you saw that I had the good fortune of co…
In 2020 I had the chance to build a home from scratch. Nothing fancy, my dream home is a simple two-bedroom 1,320-square-foot ranch on a slab …
I didn’t think it would be so difficult.
Why does the hourly news summary include the markets? Pick a cable news channel, a radio station, your digital media favorite. Every weekday, …
Prentice Park — been there? If so, great; if not, you should go.
Whole foods are foods that are as little processed or refined as possible and have no additives such as preservatives or artificial ingredient…
This week our backyard house wrens finally returned, so now we have the action and bird-chatter of their regular comings and goings for much o…
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently handed down a decision that will allow governments to continue to shroud their work in secrecy.
I was sitting in my office last week when one of the more unusual calls I’ve ever heard came across the police scanner.
One day, a few years ago when he was small, my youngest son gave me a flower. It wasn’t any ordinary flower-giving. It was a great effort insp…
As a lifelong pet owner, my heart aches a little bit every week when our two local animal-rescue organizations send me their pets of the week.
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