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Trap set atop standings
2024 SPORTS HOLLOW SUMMER TRAP LEAGUE J.J. Gregerson of Ray’s Auto holds onto the top spot among individual shooters after week 16 post, while teammate Jens Gregerson and Scared Hitless’ Matt Hypponen are still in hot pursuit. Powered by the Gregersons, Ray’s Auto also sits tied with a balanced 4 Season Air for first place among teams. Individual Standings ...
Man pleads not guilty to substantial battery of former romantic partner, other charges
A Gordon man accused of beating up his former romantic partner, strangling her and threatening to kill her pleaded not guilty on Aug. 19. James L. Peet, 61, is charged with substantial battery, strangulation and suffocation, intimidation of a victim, false imprisonment and disorderly conduct. Peet faces a maximum of more than 19 years in prison if convicted on all charges. ...
Revival next year
The Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association (CAMBA) Festival of Trails Revival, which annually welcomes mountain bike enthusiasts from across the Northwoods and beyond, has rescheduled this signature event into 2025. The cancellation, though a sure disappointment to riders, hardly represents a lone offering by CAMBA, which supports races, events and instructional courses every calendar year. CAMBA also works to maintain the following trails, part of a system which covers two counties and nearly a million acres of forest, to promote mountain biking in the greater Bay Area: ...
No cool down for Northland hockey team
The mounting heat to build winning athletic programs at Northland College continued with the hiring of Jake Bobrowski as the new Head Coach for the Northland College women’s hockey team on Aug. 14. Bobrowski becomes the fourth head coach in program history, and athletic director Dan Schumacher emphasized the consistent success Bobrowski brings with him to the program. “Northland Women’s Hockey is excited for a new era, with new leadership in Jake Bobrowski,” Schumacher said. “He has coaching experience at all levels and we are...
JD Vance touts law and order during Milwaukee campaign visit
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance painted himself and former President Donald Trump as law and order candidates during a visit to the office of Milwaukee’s police union Friday. Vance was back in Wisconsin for the second time since he was tapped by Trump to be his running mate during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. He spoke to a small crowd of supporters at the Milwaukee Police Association headquarters in front of several “Back the Blue” signs. ...
Nearly 1K students died at federal Indian boarding schools. At least 11 of those schools were in Wisconsin.
The U.S. Department of the Interior was created in 1849 to “assimilate Indigenous peoples,” according to its current secretary Deb Haaland. Last month, Haaland’s department concluded an investigation into the trauma inflicted upon Native Americans by the federal Indian boarding school system. Haaland said the investigation’s reports are “historic” in a statement she made after the second and final volume of the report was published. “This is the first time...
Court orders 4 Milwaukee men to stand trial in killing of man outside hotel lobby
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four Milwaukee hotel workers accused of killing a man in June by pinning him to the ground must stand trial on murder charges, a court official ordered Monday. Hyatt Hotel security guards Todd Erickson and Brandon Turner along with bellhop Herbert Williamson and front desk worker Devin Johnson-Carson each face one count of being a party to felony murder in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death. Each could face...
Brewers optimistic that Christian Yelich will be ready for start of 2025 season
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold said the back surgery that Christian Yelich underwent Friday should enable the 2018 NL MVP to be ready for the start of the 2025 season. “By doing this sooner, it does allow him to hopefully be ready for opening day next year,” Arnold said before the Brewers faced the Cleveland Guardians. Arnold was asked about the possibility the three-time...
Wisconsin woman who said she legally killed sex trafficker gets 11 years in prison
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who said she was legally allowed to a kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced count of reckless homicide. A Kenosha County judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer to 11 years of initial confinement followed by 5 years of extended supervision in the 2018 death of Randall Volar, 34. She was given credit for 570 days, about one and a half years, of time...
Some chippiness seeps through even as Packers and Broncos try to keep joint practice fight-free
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur hankered for a fight-free joint practice as the Packers and Denver Broncos were warming up Friday. He and Broncos coach Sean Payton agreed to no 1-on-1 drills pitting wide receivers and cornerbacks or linebackers against running backs and that even the pass-rush drills during 7-on-7s would be truncated and tame. “We just want a good, competitive practice and we want to...
Brewers overcoming all sorts of adversity to build biggest division lead of any MLB team
This was expected to be the season the Milwaukee Brewers finally took a step back after making five playoff appearances over the last six years in Major League Baseball’s smallest market. It hasn’t happened. After losing manager Craig Counsell to the rival Chicago Cubs and trading 2021 Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles, the Brewers have withstood numerous injuries to build the largest division lead of...
Corps of Engineers extends comment period on its draft Wisconsin Line 5 combined decision document
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is extending the public comment period on its draft Line 5 combined decision document to Aug. 30. The Corps in a news release announced it is extending the comment period to ensure the public has sufficient time to review updated information on the Corps’ website and provide comments regarding the Corps’ federal action. This comes after the Corps held a public...
Ojibwe dubbed ‘Star Wars’ film brings new hope for language revitalization
The force is strong with Niigaanii-Animikii Inini Kalvin Hartwig. As a big fan of the Star Wars series, Hartwig got excited when he saw an opportunity to audition for a voice actor part in an Ojibwe version of Disney’s “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope.” “I’ve been a fan of Star Wars since I was a kid. When I saw this opportunity, I had to act,” he said. ...
Finley’s tail
Gotta love the dogs on the farm! Our beloved shadows of chore time, our English shepherds are an important part of operation since 2008, when we got adorable tri-colored Lena as a puppy. Her son Finlee is Kara’s barnyard buddy, a butterscotch and white variant bounding with energy. One day, Kara noticed that a lump had formed on the top of Finlee’s tail, near the base. He was scheduled for a tooth cleaning at Family and Farm Vet Clinic, and Mr. Haugen had agreed to...
One hit too few
Bay Area Upper 13 Baseball League teams traveled to all parts of the Northwoods from Aug. 9-11 to compete in various regionals for berths in the Wisconsin Baseball Association state playoffs. Falling first were the Ashland Merchants. The young team dropped two on Aug. 10, to more experienced teams in Plum City and Interwald. Mellen's Iron City Miners fell hard against Whittlesby on Aug. 9, then battled Bay City in a fireworks display 13-11 loss. Grand View took two big losses on Aug. 10 while Glidden split two games in its own regional, and Washburn missed making state by one...
The green flash
Do you have a second? More precisely, would you take the time to wait for a second of a natural phenomenon? What if that second meant seeing something you’ve never seen before, perhaps didn’t even know existed? Would you wait, in patience and focus, to see an amazing flash of light? That light is the green flash that sometimes throbs briefly at the moment of sunset and sunrise, a green ray visible above the upper rim of the sun’s disk. The burst normally lasts for...
Ashland through history
1884Ashland will be the railroad center of the South Shore according to locals and our building boom. 1924State auto fatalities in 1924 were the highest ever, totaling 333 for the year. Death by auto accident led all other causes of death by accident. 1924Charles Taylor, former Ashland baseball player, was killed in a baseball injury in Groveton, Texas. ...
Pet of the week
Like my brother, Banjo, I came from an outdoor life with our mom Bluebird. Luckily, someone found us and decided we deserved a better life. While I’m still a little skittish with new people, I’m curious and playful and building confidence every day. Please give me and my brother a chance! www.helpingpawswi.org Pet of the Week highlights an animal available at the Helping PAWS shelter in Washburn. To learn more about PAWS or view other pets available, visit helpingpawswi.org.
Green Bay for the good times
Hello friends, This week’s column is just pure crazy and fun, as usual, I am short on space. I love to fish Green Bay and do it in both my canoe and my 18.6 War Eagle. I generally can only fish it once a year because my schedule is full as a tick that’s been stuck in your backside for a week. This year’s plan was crazy, rain and wind changed my plan twice and the new plan would have me leaving my house at...
An Olympic original: A Q&A with another Bay Area Olympian Coke Lindsey
While South Shore's Megan Gustafson, who stood out for Spain in on their women's national basketball team, and Rice Lake's Kenny Bednarek, who claimed the silver medal in the 200 meter dash, did the Bay Area and Northwoods proud in the 2024 Olympics held in Paris, France, from July 26 to Aug. 11, there is another local legend who once claimed a bit of spotlight in Olympic play. Carol "Coke" Lindsey, a long-time Bay Area resident, was herself a stellar athlete who grew up in...
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The Ashland Daily Press can trace its beginnings to the summer of 1872, when Sam Fifield began printing the Weekly Press. The first edition of The Daily Press then came out on March 5, 1888. Fifield soon lost interest in the paper and sold the operation to Joe Chapple. The Daily Press business was soon left in to his brother, John C. Chapple, who had started working at the paper in 1890 at the age of 15. The paper was sold to J.T. Hooper in 1910, and then again to a Milwaukee businessman named Green. He, in turn, sold it back to Myrta Chapple, John’s wife, and John spent 56 years working every job from printer’s devil to publisher until his death in 1946. Myrta worked on the paper until the early 1950s and upon her death in 1973, she had one of the longest newspaper careers of any woman in the nation. Their son John B. Chapple worked as a newspaperman at The Daily Press for 75 years, from 1925 through his death in 1989, when he still was contributing stories. The Daily Press was sold to Morgan Murphy’s Superior Telegram in 1956, and in 1996, the paper became part of Murphy McGinnis Media. On Jan. 31, 2003, Superior Publishing — an affiliate of investment firm MCG Capital Corporation — purchased the firm. American Consolidated Media bought the newspaper in 2007. On March 14, 2014, The Daily Press was among the papers acquired from ACM by the Adams Publishing Group. As part of the APG Media of Wisconsin group, the Ashland Daily Press is part of six subscription newspapers and eight shoppers in that region.
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