9/17/2024

IRONWOOD - The team that has run ABR Trails in Erwin Township has announced that the operation will soon be transferred to the Anderson Bluffs and River Trails Foundation, a 501C charity by the spring of 2025. Eric Anderson and Angela Santini have run a full-service ski touring center for cross country enthusiasts for the past couple of decades. At a recent meeting of the Ironwood City Commission, Scott Anderson, an ABR board member and Eric’s brother outlined the tremendous contributions his brother and Angela Santini have made to community through the trails and the benefit the transfer to the foundation will hold, emphasizing that the board wants to expand on the local history of Nordic skiing and expand the area economy by encouraging year-round tourism.

9/17/2024

N. WISCONSIN - Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers was in Hurley yesterday.  First Evers visited the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus on Monday welcoming back students and promoting his plan to increase funding to state colleges and universities.  Evers wants to increase funding to state colleges and universities by a record $850 million.  After Evers visit to Superior, he came across US-2 to Hurley where he visited and took pictures with students and staff at the Hurley K-12 school.

9/17/2024

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will stay on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin.  Kennedy sued to get his name off Wisconsin's ballot on Sept. 3 but Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke ruled yesterday that he'll stay on it. Wisconsin law doesn't allow independent candidates to be removed from the ballot after they've submitted nomination papers unless they die.