As we approach the 103rd Armistice/Remembrance Day (despite opposition it was re-named Veterans Day in the 1950s) we are reminded daily of our…
Climate change threatens the basic conditions required for human thriving and disproportionately affects the world’s poorest nations and their…
Don’t read this unless you are over 60. I don’t want you wishing you were a senior citizen if you aren’t old enough.
Even John Wayne would not believe this. Vigilante justice returns to Texas with every citizen now an invited bounty hunter. First they come fo…
It was recently written in the Sawyer County Record and Spooner Advocate papers that the Vatican, like everyone, “turned a blind eye on the Ho…
Have you ever been fired from a job? If so, you probably knew why. Your employer probably had evaluation meetings with you to discuss your str…
Many news stories lately have included record heat, drought, and wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada (who hasn’t noticed the smoke smell,…
This week the calendar page flips to September. Labor Day Weekend is here. But really, it seems like the subtle changes of the season have bee…
I’ve struggled to find much history at all about the Hayward Indian School as I research the possibility of unmarked graves on its old property.
Democracy is at stake. Our freedoms start with the right to vote. Restrictive voting is a tactic of authoritarians and is used to hold on to p…
What an incredible weekend it was in Spooner as the 67th Heart of the North Spooner Rodeo galloped full speed back into the area after a year …
Washburn County officially ended the 2020-21 school year last week.
When I was a child I was helping my uncle, a veteran of World War II, move some belongings, including an old trunk. In that trunk, neatly fold…
It was a middle-of-May afternoon a number of years ago, and we were having ice cream out on the porch, kicking back and lazing through the war…
Don’t you just love this time of the year? Our growing season is ending, days are shorter, and there’s a crispness in the air, all clues leadi…
Law enforcement officers and emergency responders are often the first to help on Wisconsin highways, but stepping out on the side of the road …
October is known and recognized as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior used to establish an…
October days are upon us. Once more the calendar page has flipped. Out in the hills somewhere this week an old hunter checks his tree stand, a…
It was one of those man on the street interviews. I couldn’t believe it. This man said he didn’t care for Lawrence Welk because his music is c…
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