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Warm winter, early start has not hurt area maple syrup producers

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IRON MOUNTAIN — Producers say this year’s maple syrup season got off to a very early start, with some tapping trees in the last week in January. Maple sap rises as trees warm up and begin to emerge from their dormant winter state. That happened up to five weeks earlier than normal this ...

Five candidates on ballot for Miss Niagara

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NIAGARA, Wis. — A new Miss Niagara will be chosen when voters go to the polls for local elections April 2. Niagara High School students, along with City and Town of Niagara voters, will choose from among five students selected as finalists by their high school peers. Started and ...

IR man to get new trial

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A new trial has been ordered for an Iron River man serving a 30- to 50-year prison sentence for a first-degree criminal sexual conduct conviction involving a 10-year-old boy in July 2021. Albert Lawrence Shumate is entitled to a new trial because the prosecutor in Iron County Circuit Court ...

Fatal vehicle fire in Marquette Twp

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MARQUETTE — One person is dead after a vehicle fire Friday night, according to the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched at 9:50 p.m. to County Road 492 near Everly Way and found a vehicle engulfed in flames in a wooded area off the highway. The fire was quickly ...

Wisconsin to vote on banning private money to help elections

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters are set to decide next month whether to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer state elections, one of two Republican-backed ballot measures that Democrats say are meant to make it harder to conduct elections in the ...