Livin’ a dream

Without looking, Charlie Clark pointed across the street from his Clear Lake, WI home and said, “That’s where Burleigh lived.” Suddenly, he seemed to be transported into another world —…

Read More

Fighting an unseen enemy

  The sign on a church in Grantsburg indicated there would be no services on Sunday. It’s just one indicator of how local people are reacting to the pandemic known…

Read More

Return-Rest-Renew

Many veterans return home to lives filled with fear and peril — and they’re haunted by the wars and skirmishes they thought they’d left behind. Vietnam veteran Rodney Wilson, a…

Read More

Kid builders

Maybe the only thing Roy Ward loves more than teaching the kids a trade or guiding them through Webster Tech’s advanced machine shop is doing it himself. Give him a…

Read More

A dream come true

It all started when Greg Peer drove through the Crex Meadows north of Grantsburg, WI and saw signs pointing to “handicapped blinds,” created by Ducks Unlimited. “I thought, the state…

Read More

Jordan Buck may rise again

Ballad of the Jordan Buck Up in Burnett County where the land is fair, Wild animals wander ‘round everywhere. They say it’s hunters’ heaven and I know it’s true —…

Read More

‘Tracker’ sniffs out the bad guys

Who’s the most popular dog in Burnett County? Mitch Olson has the answer — “Tracker”, of-course. County Deputy Olson is prejudiced because he and tracker are a team, and together…

Read More

DNR tower proudly served for 88 years

Grantsburg losing a landmark, but it’s being preserved for posterity Dorene Snyder blew on her hands in the bitter cold, then reached out and grabbed the next available girder as…

Read More

What’s happening?

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! As temperatures dipped down into some potentially disaster-laden figures, folks across Western Wisconsin are trying to warm their hearts and those of their significant others with Valentine…

Read More

Super Fan is down, but not out

Russ Erickson walked into the Grantsburg gymnasium, eyed his favorite place at the top of the bleachers at center court and plopped himself down. “I like to sit in the…

Read More