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6/11 Caller reports her neighbor on Gordon Road in Bayfield mowed the lawn without permission. Caller from the Washburn Roads Department reports a downed tree on Highway 13 in Washburn. Caller at a business in Ashland on Highway reports that a customer owes several hundred dollars. ...
Bay City Campground on the Mississippi
Hello friends, This week I headed over to Bay City in Pierce County and had a plan of camping on a Mississippi River island and paddle trolling my canoe for walleye and also fishing from shore. My 8-year-old golden retriever Ruby would be my companion. Saturday, June 8, 2024 High 77, low 54 ...
Northland College Notes
Bookish ballersTwenty-nine Northland College student-athletes were selected to the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference team on June 12. In all, 754 student-athletes across the UMAC were honored; setting a new conference record. Over the year, 1,312 athletes were named All-Conference surpassing the record set last year. To be eligible the athlete must finish the semester with a 3.5 or higher grade point average while competing in their sport. Baseball ...
Skaters get in line for marathon
Let the skating begin. Inline skaters at both elite and recreational levels will line up on Madeline Island on June 15 to speed more than once around an 8.7 mile course for the Apostle Islands Inline Marathon and Half-Marathon, an event the Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce has promoted as the nation’s destination vacation inline marathon. Chamber executive director Mary McPhetridge is proud of the race, which is expected to draw some 350 participants, and cautions fans and volunteers alike that once the marathon and half-marathon start, both at 8:30 a.m., it will go by fast. ...
Ashland County sheriff’s report
6/3 Caller on North Third Street in Butternut requests to speak with law enforcement about missing the deed and keys for her house. Caller said she believes her neighbor has said items. Caller reports a tree is down on Highway GG near Butternut that’s blocking both lanes. Caller on East Tyler Avenue in Mellen reports...
Racing in earnest
Dylan Nelson of Merrifield, MN, took control late in the 30-lap FastLane Motorsports Northland Super Stock Series feature and collected his first career feature win at the ABC Raceway on June 8. The night of racing, presented by SuperOne Foods, included 104 entries and, marked the sixtieth opening night of stock car racing at the historic red clay oval. Further results: ResultsFurhman Designs WISSOTA Modifieds Feature: 1-10: Mike Anderson, Jim...
Boy struck by vehicle while riding bike
A 12-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle Thursday while riding his bike. Authorities say the boy was struck at about 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Highway C and Van De Bruggen Road in Marengo. The child was transported from the scene due to injury from the crash, and later life flighted. The vehicle operator was released without injury, according to a news release from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office. The crash remains under investigation. More details will be provided as they are released.
All that preparation for such a short show
Even among the fullness and greenness of early June, even on blades of lush grasses along the river, the tiny damselfly stood out. Dressed in iridescent metallic hues—teal greens and blues—the sleek damselfly landed atop the arc of a blade of long grass. It was midday, and my way took me along the Hay River in southern Barron County. It was not the right time of day, or light, for photos of deer in fields, or of great blue herons as stalking statuettes. ...
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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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