News Staff The Ackley Fires in Ashland on Monday closed part of Highway 2 for a time. Those fires burned roughly 23 acres of land east of Ashland. Nearly a five mile stretch of Highway 2 by Ackley Road had swamp grass and cattails on fire. There were several different starting points of the fires in the … Read more
The Bayfield City Council has the task of filling an important city position now that Mayor Ted Dougherty has resigned for health reasons. TheDailyPress reports City Council President Lyn Cornelius will serve as acting mayor while the city weighs the options for filling the roughly one year remaining in Dougherty’s term. A new mayor can … Read more
The owner of Lakeland Disposal has applied and been granted a conditional use permit from Vilas County to build a sold water transfer station in Arbor Vitae. TheLakelandTimes reports Chad Metzger has planned for the facility of be on just over five acres on Justin Street, which is a private road that crosses Airport Road. … Read more
Tamarack Health Ashland, Ashland County Health and Human Services and the BRICK Ministries are the home of a new program in Ashland. TheDailyPress reports Daniel Compton, a certified peer support specialist with Tamarack has helped to introduce a free, walk-in Narcan training program. Before becoming a peer support specialist, Compton can relate, Narcan has saved … Read more
Gogebic Community College has learned that it will only receive about a 1.5% increase in funding for the next year, but says it will still continue to educate students. The The state Senate Higher Education and Community College Appropriations Subcommittee proposed the increase, which would be the smallest increase given to Gogebic in the last … Read more
A request by the owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company, Kirk Bangstad to have his currently revoked county conditional use permit reinstated has been denied by a federal judge. TheLakelandTimes reports Bangstad made the request in order to open an outdoor beer garden at the Brewing Company. Federal district Judge James Peterson said in an … Read more
After a petition by attorney Aaron Nelson and Bayfield County DA Kimberly Lawton, Judge John Anderson agreed and ruled that the murder case of 16-year-old Daniel Wilber should be heard in juvenile court. TheDailyPress reports if Wilber were to be found guilty of first degree homocide in an adult course, the only sentence available would … Read more
At the most recent meeting of the Wakefield City Council, the board approved rebuilding a segment of public road if Highland Copper pays for it. TheDailyGlobe reports the Canadian company continues to work towards opening the Copperwood Mine in Wakefiled and Ironwood. City Manager Robert Brown Jr. said that most of the mile segment of … Read more
At the most recent meeting of the Wakefield City Council, the board approved rebuilding a segment of public road if Highland Copper pays for it. TheDailyGlobe reports the Canadian company continues to work towards opening the Copperwood Mine in Wakefiled and Ironwood. City Manager Robert Brown Jr. said that most of the mile segment of … Read more
After a petition by attorney Aaron Nelson and Bayfield County DA Kimberly Lawton, Judge John Anderson agreed and ruled that the murder case of 16-year-old Daniel Wilber should be heard in juvenile court. TheDailyPress reports if Wilber were to be found guilty of first degree homocide in an adult course, the only sentence available would … Read more