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When I started running five years ago, I would arrange my schedule around my sister’s so that we could run together. She had been running much longer, and, frankly, I…
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In Burnett County, Wisconsin, divulging the location of a wild blueberry patch ranks right up with mapping the directions to someone’s fishing hole: it’s a no-no. For the sake of…
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(Newspaper feature) County woman’s daughter hopes to be first woman to walk around the world. The mom’s moving sale will raise money for her daughter’s cause–breast cancer research. NEAR VOYAGER…
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With new, cleaner equipment, Peat Technologies can produce peat products at Siren site until Aug. 1. But it must make plans to move out and deal with neighbors’ dust complaints.…
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Officials seek disaster aid for place where three died and a mess remains. SIREN—Gov. Scott McCallum told a small crowd in Siren Tuesday that Burnett County’s storm showed him destruction…
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Two years in a row, the St. Croix Native American dance team took first place at Eskimo-Indian Olympics. FAIRBANKS, AK–This year can be considered reassurance for the “group from Wisconsin.”…
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•‘We got no place to stay, no place to stay.’ — Lawanda McMonagle of Siren SIREN—Lawanda McMonagle and her husband used to live behind the Pour House. Now they live…
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Tornadic winds beat down Siren’s new tourist industry. Homes of the locals, who lived there before the business boom, were ripped away, too. SIREN—In the last couple of years, Siren…
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HERTEL–Momma Wolf has traveled throughout the U.S. spreading the word about Native American gangs. She knows that gangs are becoming more mobile as members leave reservations, move to cities and…
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SIREN–A board that assembled to kick-off the first all-county alternative school has made a verbal agreement to rent a building on Siren’s Highway 35 main drag this fall. The building…
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WEBSTER–As they grew up, their father’s words stuck in the heads of twin sisters Betty and Barb Steeg: “If you want something bad enough, you can make it,” Lloyd Steeg of…