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Ashland Daily Press

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Bay Area conservation projects share more than $310,000 in coastal grants

A 132-acre forest once owned by Northland College, a riverfront parcel next to Big Rock County Park, and a new trail at Lost Creek Falls are among the Bayfield, Ashland, and Douglas county projects sharing more than $310,000 in Wisconsin Coastal Management grants. Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld presented the awards Oct. 28 on the banks of the Sioux River at Big Rock County Park, just outside Washburn. “Every year we award a million dollars in grants to help our coastal communities to enhance public access, education, community planning and support to preserve our wonderful waterways, both for ourselves and for generations to come,” Blumenfeld said. The largest grant, $180,774, will help buy the Maxwell Forest property from Northland College. The purchase will protect and expand public access to 132 acres of undeveloped forest, shoreland, and river bluffs in the White River watershed, which straddles Ashland and Bayfield counties. “This is an amazing opportunity,” said Erica Hannickel, an Ashland County grant writer. “I am so grateful for the Coastal Management program for being able to fund this project. It really was a partnership to be able to protect this land, 132 acres and to work with Landmark Conservancy

Bayfield County, WI · 16h

We Are Minnesconsin

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Parts Of Northern Wisconsin Could See 3 Inches Of Snow This Week

Northern Wisconsin could see its first accumulating snowfall of the season, with up to 3 inches possible in parts of Iron and Ashland counties.

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IRON RIVER, Wis.- The Community Center is hosting their annual Fall Harvest Vendor Show this weekend. That will kick off at 9a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14. The event will host over 30 local vendors all under one roof. Guests can shop from artwork, crafts, gifts and more. There will also be prizes given away throughout the day. The fall harvest vendor show wraps up at 2p.m. that day.

Duluth, MN · 5h
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Ashland Daily Press

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WVCB-LP brings community radio back to the Bay Area

After more than nine years without one, the Chequamegon Bay area has a community radio station again. WVCB-LP, which calls itself “The Voice of Chequamegon Bay,” went on the air Nov. 7 at 97.7 FM. The nonprofit, low-power station broadcasts with 100 watts from the Ashland transmitter site of Wisconsin Public Radio, and its signal can be heard in most of the Bay Area. “Our programming–music, news, documentary, and discussion–strengthens our sense of place and connection among communities along the South Shore of Lake Superior,” the station’s website, wvcb.org, says. WVCB board member and finance director Tim Pavlish said the idea for a new community station took shape shortly after Northland College’s campus station, WRNC-LP, went off the air in May 2017, a victim of budget cuts. “It sort of felt that we’d never get to the finish line,” Pavlish said. “It’s super exciting, and I am so glad that we have been able to build this out for the community. At this point it is now in the hands of the community to make the station what they want to make of it, to make shows that discuss things that are happening in the area or play their favorite

Ashland, WI · 16h