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Washburn Lions club launches promotion to support local businesses during road construction
As construction continues on the main drag through Washburn, a local club wants to help businesses impacted by the project. To encourage people to support Washburn businesses, the Washburn Lions Club has launched a bingo-type game for shoppers to play while out and about downtown. To play, people buy a card and obtain stamps by shopping at the more than 30 businesses throughout Washburn, said club member Tutti Wiatr. ...
What’s under there? Marengo sexton launches project to search for graves with no markers
Before Jennifer Stevens and her husband retired in Marengo, she didn’t know what a sexton was. But in an effort to stay busy, she quickly got involved in town activities. Last year the board asked her if she could digitize all of the records related to Maple Grove Cemetery. Though there have bee many sextons over the last 110 years, she said the records are “amazingly complete and detailed.” But...
Engines started
A full night of racing took place on June 27 at ABC Raceways in the third annual Farm Stock Special. Nearly 100 cars competed for enhanced purses offered to the Fuhrman Design WISSOTA Modifieds, Superior Floral WISSOTA Super Stocks and Lightning Storm Graphics WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, with feature wins secured by Jody Bellefeuille and Shane Kisling. Engines will fire up again for a second “Six-Cylinder Slam,” presented by the Safari Bar in Ashland, on July 6. As a reminder, fans are encouraged to submit their own photos with permission to use to Paul Barnes at pressnews@ashlanddailypress.net. Photos will be credited...
Tending Peggy
All our sheep have personalities on the farm, but some of them stand out more than others. We have many great memories of one of the first members of our flock—Edelweiss—who was a triplet that was rejected by her mother, living on the farm of Kara’s mentor. She was in a dire condition when we got the phone call, a plea of essentially take this thing and see what you can do, or it’s going to die here. The fragile, injured lamb came home with...
Ashland County sheriff's report
6/17 Caller reports there’s a truck in the ditch on its side on Highway 169 near Mellen. Caller reports a vehicle struck the basketball pole at Glidden School and then left the scene. Caller reports hearing multiple gunshots on Plantation Road near Ashland. It turned out to be fireworks. ...
Wisconsin Bankers Association Recognizes Iron River Banker Greg Ogren for Board Service
Greg Ogren, president and CEO of Security Bank Shares, Inc. of Iron River, was recently recognized by the Wisconsin Bankers Association for his service to the industry. Ogren joined the WBA Board of Directors in 2021 and served a three-year term. “On behalf of our Association, I would like to thank Greg for his dedication to Wisconsin’s banking industry,” said Rose Oswald Poels, WBA president and CEO, in a release. “His service on the WBA Board has helped foster growth and positive change not only...
Ashland Through History
1854 Asaph Whittlsey and George Kilgore arrived at the Ashland site and felled a tree used in the first house built by white men. 1884 Electric lights were turned on for the Superior Lumber Mill—there may be street lights in the future ...
Local committees set to meet
The Bay Area community is invited to attend these upcoming meetings occurring jointly on July 9 between 12:30-2 p.m. •Ashland County Local Comprehensive Community Services Coordination Committee • Bayfield County Local Comprehensive Community Services Coordination Committee ·Regional Comprehensive Community Services Coordination Committee of Ashland and Bayfield Counties The meetings can be attended virtually via Zoom at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83927913052?pwd=0V3NfMKgvfXYb4ieLGbL5cYoWnZjGn.1.The meeting ID is 839 2791 305 and the Passcode is 133331. The number to dial in via phone is 1-312-626-6799 US (Chicago). To attend the meeting in person, it will take place at the Oredock Conference Room at the Ashland County Health & Human Services Office at 630 Sanborn Ave., Ashland.
Return of the Canada gang
Hello friends, Back in 1982, I was 21 and my brother Mike was 25. Along with my dad, the late Robert Walters, and a family friend, we flew by float plane to Shultz lake which is 55 air miles northwest of Red Lake and absolutely kicked butt on walleye and northern pike. Forty-two years later Chimo Lodge and Outposts, formally owned by my good friends Pete and Elizabeth Hagedorn is owned by Chris and Tammy Leblanc and I am ...
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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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