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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…
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…
(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…
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.…
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…
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.”…
•‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
O’Donnell hauled his junk art to Smithsonian Institute. FREDERIC–Ten years ago, Dennis O’Donnell had a few things lying around his yard. He had a drinking cup from the barn where…