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School, township, county meetings set this week

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The Iron Mountain Planning Commission will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. Iron Mountain Tree Board will meet at 4 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. Florence County Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. today in room 259 of Florence County High School, Florence, Wis. The agenda includes the 2026-27 preliminary budget and a discussion and possible action on high school football. Iron Mountain School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in conference room B117 at 300 W. B St., Iron Mountain. The regular board meeting will be preceded by a finance meeting at 4:45 ...

Niagara man looks to expand his flooring work in region

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NIAGARA, Wis. — Scott Winicki has had a long career in the flooring business in Milwaukee but now is looking to get a better foothold in the northern counties. Winicki owns Bayview Wood Floors LLC, a licensed, bonded and insured floor installation and refinishing company. He has worked ...

Missing man found ‘alive and alert’ on Isle Royale

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ISLE ROYALE – Authorities say a 70-year-old hiker is “alive and alert ” after being found Saturday on Isle Royale, nearly a week after family reported him missing. According to the Isle Royale National Park Facebook page, searchers were able to locate Craig Berg of downstate Royal Oak ...

Plan to repeal national forest ‘roadless rule’ under scrutiny

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The Trump administration announced a proposal last month to remove a Forest Service rule that protects millions of acres of National Forest land throughout the United States from commercial logging and road building. Put in place in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule applies to land ...

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US to lift whiskey tariff DOONBEG, Ireland (AP) — President Donald Trump says he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said Sunday during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he'd been asked about the issue by everyone, including some of the golfers. He said, "Everybody's been bugging me" to do it. "And I said, 'On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off'" of Irish whiskey. Irish whiskey currently faces the standard tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15% to 10% in ...