By Rick Olivo, Ashland Daily Press The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has received a great measure of bipartisan support since it was initiated in fiscal year 2010. From an initial funding of $475 million, the program has received an annual appropriation of $300 million in every year except fiscal year…
…The two have planted the new perennial foods garden by Memorial Hall, as well as planned and implemented a polycultural production garden behind the McLean Environmental Learning and Living Center. Look for Danny and Sam Saturday mornings 8 a.m. to noon at the Ashland Farmer’s market on Chapple Avenue. Danny…
…water is only going to come from more corners over the next several decades, as journalist Peter Annin explained in an Oct. 22, 2015 talk at Monona Terrace in Madison. Co-director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College in Ashland, he is the author of…
Then: Andrew East graduated in 2010 with a degree in natural resources. For his capstone, he surveyed small mammals to determine the prey availability and dynamics for northern shrikes in Ashland County. Through that project and several others in the natural resources department, he and others explored physiology, behavior, and…
…and pointed her finger right at Northland College. Then, she convinced her best friend Beverly Harris ’72 to join her. Together, in the fall of 1968, the two African-American women and their mothers rode the bus thirty-three hours from New York City to remote Ashland, Wisconsin. They arrived at midnight…
…Diane Vertin, president of LCOOCC, together with the sponsorship of Ashland Ford Chrysler and owner Mike Mikula, the program was delivered on the LCOOCC campus during evenings and weekends in 2016. All eight graduates of the program will participate in the May 27 commencement at Northland College. Pictured above from…
On the evening of July 11, a violent and torrential storm swept through northwest Wisconsin, saturating communities, farms and forests from Lake Superior in Ashland County south approximately 75 miles to the Hayward Lakes area. Twelve hours later, local residents woke to damage from rainfall totals ranging from five to…
…Hearts to End Hunger campaign in Ashland, which aims to bring awareness to the homelessness in the region. These initiatives and his involvement with the Northland College Student Association have him fired up for local politics. “It has instilled in me a passion for public interest and local community initiatives,”…
…fidelity to the broader evaluation model, and support partners’ efforts to meet project goals. The Northern Wisconsin Health Network consists of two critical access hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and Hayward Area Memorial Hospital, four County Health and Human Services Departments in Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer and Washburn counties, and NorthLakes Community…
Commencement 2015 BY Sara Chase, For the Ashland Daily Press “Commencement—it doesn’t sound like an ending it sounds like a beginning,” said Northland College President Dr. Michael A. Miller Saturday in his greeting at the college’s commencement for its 2014-15 graduates. The ceremony for Northland’s 112 graduates, their family and…
