Like hundreds of Sawyer County area residents, I spent much of last week volunteering for the Birkie. I am sure this paper will have many stor…
Kara Larson and Bryan Ince of Spooner announce their engagement to be married.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Chippewa Falls woman has pleaded guilty to soliciting a hitman to kill her daughter's father.
Friday Youth 20-21
Two area students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire were awarded degrees in December. Elizabeth Trude of Stone Lake graduated with a b…
Hayward Community Credit Union (HCCU) has stepped up to ease partial or full remote learning in the wake of COVID-19 by sponsoring more than 8…
The Hayward-based Couderay Waters Regional Land Trust has become part of Landmark Conservancy.
Online Poll
Would you support higher property taxes to pay for resources to address drug addiction in Sawyer County?
On the night, Feb. 18, the Sawyer County Board of Supervisors approved an $8 million bond to build a second courtroom, Supervisor Dawn Petit said the county also needed to make an investment in treating those with drug addiction. Would you support raising your property taxes to pay for treatment resources, such as an in-person treatment center, to address drug addiction in Sawyer County? Please take the poll.
U.S. Ski Team member Johnny Hagenbuch of Ketchum, Idaho, won the men’s elite skate race at the in-person 47th American Birkebeiner Saturday, F…
About 45 people tuned in and had the opportunity to comment on Sawyer County’s past and future fishing scenarios during the 2021 Sawyer County…
Wisconsin trout, not as closely related as you might think
Two Hayward Hurricane girls and one Hurricane boy received honorable mention on the 2020-21 Heart O’ North All-Conference basketball teams tha…
The Wisconsin Nordic Ski League will host the postponed 2021 state high school and middle school distance championships at the Birkebeiner Sta…
Ian “the Torch” Torchia of Rochester, Minnesota, was the winner of the 47th Slumberland American Birkebeiner classic race, held Sunday, Feb. 2…
When Ernie St. Germaine, 73, typically kicks off an American Birkebeiner marathon classic Nordic ski race from Telemark to Hayward, it’s on a …
The Birkie Adaptive Ski is an important part of the Slumberland American Birkebeiner cross-country ski events every year.
Hunters killed nearly 100 more wolves than allowed under quota as part of the state’s first wolf hunt this week in six years.
“Are you kidding me?”
Many of us are looking for menu items that don’t contain meat and a simple, economical way to do that is using pasta, of course. I wish more p…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress begins debate this week on sweeping voting and ethics legislation, Democrats and Republicans can agree on one th…
There’s a space kid inside almost every one of us. That fact is made clear to me by the nation’s giddy response to NASA’s most recent accompli…
This year’s famous Birkie will certainly be different, but the legend lives on and many of us will likely still celebrate in some fashion. Vir…
Fresh powder snow covers the ground, nestling in the branches of the pines and frosting the tops of the haybales and roofs. The plow hasn’t ar…
WASHINGTON — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm that recent gains against the coronavirus may be…
Hunters killed nearly 100 more wolves than allowed under quota as part of the state’s first wolf hunt this week in six years.
The director of the Teal Lake Weather Station has a weather report that is, simply, out of this world. He says that on Feb. 20, the high tempe…
Perspective: 25 degrees seems warm, doesn’t it? After our week of subzero, one can be grateful for anything above zero. I was surprised when m…
As I am writing this on Sunday afternoon while we are getting some light snow, perhaps about one inch with more to come. This past week Rob Sp…
Delivery of meth
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