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Exploring State Natural Areas
Despite all the news about heat domes and following the warmest winter on record in Wisconsin, this summer so far has been mostly cool and wet, at least in the northern half of the state. Water levels around the Wisconsin River weren’t at flood stage this week, but they sure were high and fast for summer. Much of my camping trip in the Star Lake area was wet and dreary, but that’s pretty typical of late May. It wasn’t bad enough to keep me from...
Pet of the week
Hi Everyone, I’m Georgie! I’m a petite little lady who is curious, affectionate (I like to nibble), and playful. While I came from an outdoor cat colony, I’m liking the indoor life and all of the toys I have to play with. I’d do best in a home with another cat friend. Come meet me! 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.
A final serve
The Ashland Oredockers tennis program’s senior dynamic doubles team of Bodee Mikkonen and Austin Vyskocil, as has been previously reported, earned their second straight trip to state on May 30 where they dropped a tough 7-5, 6-3 decision in the opening round.The accomplishments of both athletes, who were named co-most valuable players for the 2024 season, were recognized by second year Head Coach Gary Stevens, who remarked that Vyskocil and Mikkonen displayed a rare chemistry on the court. “This doubles team had been working together...
Multi-faceted Dessa coming to Big Top
What do you say about a woman who has collaborated with the Minnesota Orchestra and Lin Manuel Miranda, writes for the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic Traveler, has published a memoir, and has served as a guest host for the NPR show “Science Friday?” You say: Come see this amazing performer rap, harmonize, offer up some performance poetry and put on a show unlike any other. Dessa, who...
Heartbreaking seconds: 'Dockers fall in sectional final
In what amounted to hardly more than the blink of an eye, the Ashland Oredockers girls soccer team’s stellar season, which included an unblemished HON Conference championship record, and a return trip to state came to a heartbreaking end in the final seconds of a 1-0 loss to the Rice Lake Warriors in the WIAA D3 Sectional Finals at Rice Lake on June 8. With just four ticks remaining in regulation after 80 minutes of action, rising Warriors freshman Audriana Schultz put the ball in the net to propel Rice Lake to the win and a berth at state for the first time since 2018. The Warriors enter the championship semifinals, to be played on June 14 at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee, with a 12-5-1 record. The Oredockers finish 19-3-1. Travis Nyhus of the Adams Press Group’s Rice Lake Chronotype contributed to this article.
Northland College Notes
‘Jacks net twoThe Northland College LumberJacks hockey team added two international athletes in Tristen Bear from Manitoba, Canada, and Jude Ayling from Longdon, England for the 2024-25 season. Both players bring with them considerable high level club hockey experience. Bear played with the Thunder Bay North Stars at juniors where he helped lead the team to the postseason with six points on two goals and one assist. Ayling is a goalie who played in 12 games with the Wisconsin Rapids Riverkings last year and boasted a .929 save percentage. Highlights from last season for him included helping lead the Riverkings to a USPHL division title while also being selected Player of the Week on two occasions. In the classroom, Ayling became the first student at his school to twice receive the Headmaster’s Award for leadership and impact in the school and local community. Both players remarked that Northland College was the “right fit” for them, with each expressing dual goals of excelling in hockey and academically.
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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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