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The old custom of playing jokes on people on the first of April used to be more important than it is these days. I recall how we would try to …

I don’t think I’ve walked back from the mailbox in more than two months without coming back with a handful of ads telling me what a calamity i…

April 2 is Palm Sunday in the Christian tradition. Services across the world will include waving palm branches as they retell the story of Jes…

Maybe you’ve admired the beautifully decorated windows of the storefront across from the courthouse in Ashland and thought, “I should stop the…

There comes a time each winter up here in Ojibwe Country when the stillness of the season might begin to weigh on our minds just a little more…

Taxpayers invest in highways for safe, reliable infrastructure. County, local and state units of government protect this investment. Seasonal …

Perhaps we seasoned citizens — those of us a bit long in tooth — might be given some slack for muttering thoughts about having enough winter t…

Last night over dinner, my husband and I reminisced about the past restaurants of Ashland. “Do you remember the Golden Glow?” he asked. We bot…

Change is said to be a constant — something continually occurring. The Greek thinker, Heraclitus, noted this interesting paradox long, long, a…

In November 2022, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released a long-overdue draft wolf management plan reflecting the remarkable r…

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to get married on Christmas while it is also your graduation? No? Me neither. But I can now tel…

Legislators in Wisconsin recently blocked Gov. Tony Evers’ ban on conversion therapy. Conversion therapy tries to “straighten” people who are …

Here we are into our first weekend of March, the new month. Now winter’s cold grip is on the way out, and although we might be hit with a seri…

Our local chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and more than 400 other CCL chapters across the country have a principal goal of getting Congress…

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Chequamegon Humane Association Board members took action at their February board meeting to accept a bid from Jolma Electric to install a sola…

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When I was young, my friends and I played “war” with our toy guns. My heavy, silver pistol used paper rolls of caps that went off with a loud …

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A week or so ago the big brown truck dropped off a package at our door that turned out to be a huge new cookbook, a tutorial on the wonders of…

The headline on today’s front-page story about the Rychagov family, Глаза боятся, translates to “The eyes are afraid but the hands do it anyway.”

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It seems we never forget the excitement of high school sports: those times of watching our kids out there on the floor, ice, field, track, or …

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This morning a friend and I found ourselves peering out at Red Cliff’s Buffalo Bay. We were enjoying a great breakfast served in an eatery loc…

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