GLADSTONE — Firefighters were dispatched to the corner of Dakota Avenue and 17th Street in Gladstone on Thursday where smoke was seen coming from the eaves of a residence. No one was home at the time of the incident, but the tenant believed a dog was indoors. Though a cause and exact point ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Enbridge’s contentious plan to reroute an aging pipeline around a northern Wisconsin tribal reservation moved closer to reality Thursday after the company won its first permits from state regulators. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials announced they have issued construction permits for the Line 5 reroute around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation. The energy company still needs discharge permits from the DNR as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project has generated fierce opposition. The tribe wants the ...
ESCANABA — The Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District (DSISD) is upgrading its welding program with a new building. The new facility will open in 2025. The DSISD was working with Escanaba High School to use its welding lab. However, DSISD Superintendent Doug Leisenring said his campus will soon have a state-of-the-art welding lab, allowing welding students to stay at the DSISD rather than go to the high school. “We’re putting a 3 million dollar expansion on the back of the building. It’s a brand new welding center with a classroom, and then it’s all going to be some ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man apparently faked his own drowning this summer so he could abandon his family and flee to eastern Europe, investigators say. Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said in a news release Friday that the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office informed his agency on Aug. 12 that Ryan Borgwardt of Watertown had gone missing after he went kayaking on Green Lake. Borgwardt’s wife said that he texted her at 10:49 p.m. on Aug. 11 saying he was heading to shore. Deputies located Borgwardt’s vehicle and trailer near the lake. They also found his overturned ...
GLADSTONE — The City of Gladstone will have to deal with not only the aftermath of the recent election, in which citizens voted to do away with special assessments, but also the possibility of further changes to the charter — either by the City Commission’s doing or yet more citizen petitions. On Monday evening’s regular commission meeting, the topic was broached, but solutions were not discussed; City Manager Eric Buckman said that he and City Clerk Kim Berry had yet to meet with Attorney Steve Mann on how to proceed with amending the charter. Mike O’Connor — the man ...
ESCANABA — Veterans Day ceremonies were held across the nation on Monday to honor and thank American military service members. The one organized by the Delta County Veterans Council, the Vet Center and the Upper Peninsula Military Museum took place at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of ...
