Emily Stone’s Note: Kat is a writing major at Northland College who was recently my student in WRI 273: Writing the Environmental Essay. It wa…
What gardener wouldn’t want a professional to help him or her select the right flower and then demonstrate how to pot the flower properly and …
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To understand where the red quartzite originates, one has to go back 1.8 billion years or more when continental plates collided and the former…
Not until I became a parent myself did I fully appreciate what my mother did for her eight children.
Quick-fix insecticides threaten Northwoods ecology
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A story about a Milwaukee mansion reminded me this week to enjoy my life and not get so wound up.
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When Michael Heim, natural science professor at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College, does field trips he often points out that the tall, interr…
The Sherman & Ruth Weiss Community Library will observe Children’s Book Week May 10-14, a week later than the actual dates of May 3-9 , du…
Parents in the Hayward Community Schools are advised that if their children attend one of the Hayward public schools, LCO schools or St. Franc…
Monday, April 26
The Hayward Hurricanes boys golf team will host their 36-hole multi-team Scott Miller Invitational this Friday and Saturday, with 18 holes to …
After working four weeks to prepare for the Wisconsin Indian Head Country’s 55th annual Governor’s Opening Fishing Opener, I can finally say i…
Since my mom was rarely seen out of the kitchen, I have quite the stash of old hand-written, food-stained cards just begging to be revived.
For a very long time I have thought about writing a boomer column about cousins. Where to begin? Right at birth. Boomers know their cousins li…
Hannah Sake of Hayward, who is studying communication sciences and disorders at UW-Whitewater, presented research at the 19th annual UW System…
One of our son’s childhood books was a collection of poetry titled ”Bird Watch” by poet Jane Yolen with beautiful watercolor illustrations by …
Springtime on the farm means baby animal season. Peeping chicks are due to arrive at the Post Office this week (along with the requisite early…
Before I launch into anything else, I want to make two corrections relating to items in previous columns, First, the secret supreme potato sal…
Bonnie Shanley gets the prize for sending the first bear sighting report. The bear that came visiting seemed to only be checking things out. I…
They called them River Rats. They were all men who made their livings off the Mississippi River and its backwaters — mostly its backwaters.
Hello, music lovers. This is the second column coming off the hiatus and things are still slow, but there is some music out there.
Friday Afternoon Mixed
The Hayward Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes new member The Whistle Punk, a coffee and craft beer bistro in Stone Lake, with a ribbon cutting…
Hayward Middle School band and choir and Hayward High School choirs will present their spring concerts this week in the ADS auditorium.
The Hayward Hurricanes girls softball team opened its season with an excellent week as they defeated Chetek-Weyerhaeuser twice and Ashland in …
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