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Free tax assistance offered at the Dickinson County Library

IRON MOUNTAIN — AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free tax assistance and preparation service, will offer services at the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain. Registration is required; those interested can call 906-970-9222. The program offers free tax preparation help to anyone, especially those who are 50 or older and are of low to middle income. Membership in AARP is not required. An instruction sheet on the process, as well as a list of documents necessary to prepare the tax return, may be picked up at the library. Volunteers will begin doing taxes the ...

Strength training program offered for area adults

FLORENCE, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension in Florence County, in partnership with the Florence County Aging and Disability Resource Center and the Florence County Health Department, is offering the Strong Bodies Program — a free, in-person strength training class for adults. Classes are from 10 to 11:15 a.m., every Monday and Wednesday through Feb. 25 at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, 2030 Calvary Drive, Aurora, Wis. Strong Bodies is a research-based exercise program designed for middle-aged and older adults. Each 60-minute class includes ...

Senatori celebrates 101st birthday Monday

KINGSFORD — Betty Senatori will celebrate her 101th birthday Monday. Betty was born in East Kingsford, where she raised her five children, Sherry, Dennis, Pete, Lori and John. She worked as a welder during World War II in Milwaukee, while the love of her life, Fred, served overseas in ...

How aging affects our ability to remember things

NIAGARA, Wis. — I met with my study group today, and we had a conversation about memory and how we sometimes felt that we were losing it as we aged. We cited how we sometimes walk into a room and forget why we had come there. Were we going to get something? If so, what was it? I shared ...

Venditti of Stag Farms speaks at Golden K

By JUDY SIELAFF For The Daily News Kingsford — Winter has a way of slowing life down just enough for us to catch our breath. The world gets quieter, the nights get longer, and there’s something undeniably magical about watching snow fall outside your window while you’re wrapped in a ...

Striving for more years on this Earth

NIAGARA, Wis. — It is no secret that as we age, we begin to notice many changes in our minds and bodies. Our thoughts may become scattered. I have noticed that if I have something I want to tell my husband, I had better tell him as soon as the thought enters my head. If something happens to ...