News Staff The 61st Annual Bayfield Festival of the Arts was this past Saturday and Sunday. The event showcased favorite and new creators from Bayfield and the surrounding area. Carol Fahrenkrog, executive director of the Bayfield Chamber of Commerce, says that many will come into Bayfield from across the region to see the new work of a … Read more
Businesses in downtown Ashland were open and several had signs out reminding shoppers to come on in as work began pouring new sidewalks on Bayfield Street. TheDailyPress reports the road is being rebuilt in two sections from the southern side of the city at Thompson Creek to Superior Street, near its northern boundary. Work on … Read more
An Ashland man has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage to property, one as party to a crime and one count of removing a vehicle’s major parts without consent. TheDailyPress reports Mason Schevlan, 24, had four additional charges of criminal damage to property that were dismissed as part of the plea. The charges … Read more
The Vilas County Board of Supervisors has voted to approve a resolution that would ask Vilas County Judge Daniel Overbey to resign from his elected position as the head of the District 2 Court. The board also decided that should Overbey choose not to resign, that the Governor and the State court system initiate the … Read more
The Michigan Department of Education has awarded close to $25 million in grants to 16 education agencies for math teaching and learning. The grant comes for the State School Aid Act. The Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District received $10.4 million. The money will be used to hire early math specialists, who will work with kids in … Read more
A protest of the Copperwood Mine is scheduled for next Saturday. RRN reports members from a number of tribes along with other allies will hold the Gichgaming Water Walk to highlight the environmental issues that come along with a fully operational mine, including the fact that the mine would be the closest metallic sulfide mine … Read more
A Portage woman died after being injured in an ATV crash in Vilas County over the holdiay weekend. The call to 911 came in late Saturday afternoon, reporting an accident on Monheim Road 15 minutes north of Eagle River in the Town of Conover. The caller said she’d been thrown from the vehicle and was … Read more
Their goal was just to finish…the undertaking of swimming the English Channel has foiled the strongest swimmers and has tested everyone with the audacity to think they could do it…but four ‘mermaids’ from Wisconsin did it. TheDailyPress reports the WisconSwim Mermaids, Pamela Toshner and Michelle DeYoung of Barnes, Lisa Weispfenning of Washburn, and Jennifer Titus … Read more
Public comments submitted to the Public Service Commision of Wisconsin have been taken into account when it comes to a proposed hike in Ashland’s city water rates. TheDailyPress reports the PSC had made the decision earlier in August to raise rates by 52% over two years, but after hearing some three dozen comments from residents, … Read more
Two have died and one remains hospitalized after a crash in Iron County over the holiday weekend. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened Sunday evening on Gibbs City Road near Iron Lake Road just before midnight. Deputies and Aspirus EMS arrived on scene to find a Honda Pilot rolled over in a … Read more