Come for dinner and dancing! The Ashland High School Jazz Band and the Northland College Communi-versity Jazz Band will play jazz standards and big band tunes. You can also participate in a silent raffle and help raise funds for the Ashland High School Music Department. It’s sure to be a…
…in the annual Golf Classic. Kay LaPean is cochair of the President’s Club and has been an active supporter of Northland events including the Golf Classic and President’s Club dinner. “Gary and Kay LaPean have been longtime friends and supporters of Northland College and have made countless contributions to the…
…adults. Presentations and session topics will explore ways for educators to integrate environmental ideas through reading and language arts. Featuring authors, and educators, the conference will focus on literature and the natural world. Activities will also help educators meet state common core standards. Register now Conference Highlights: • Keynote presentations:…
…nights it would be packed! An empty barstool or coveted booth was hard to find. I think I remember that tap beer was ten cents a glass. Heineken beer or “green beetles” as we called them were probably fifty cents. The beer was always very cold. I remember that you…
…important factor nevertheless. “For a long time, businesses were basically courted by areas, in order to draw them to the area,” he said. “They were offered tax incentives, big subsidies and breaks to get them to locate in their areas, particularly industries involving natural resource extraction and manufacturing. “That is…
Thomas Whiting attended Ashland High School, where he played basketball. The 6’8” Northland College senior had not considered Northland College in his hometown of Ashland until Coach Scott Sorensen approached him. “I’m glad he did,” Thomas said. “The academics are top-notch and the cost is cut down due to scholarships.”…
…continued partnership between the College and the Ashland community will remain vital in both advancing wildlife conservation and boosting the local economy. A Benefit for the Chequamegon Bay Area Beyond its scientific significance, the Great Lakes Wolf Symposium also brought an economic boost to the Ashland community. Over 150 attendees,…
…hour,” Jorgenson said. “Manufacturing has been going overseas in that 50-year time period. It hasn’t been moving into Ashland.” The League, along with Northland College and Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, is sponsoring community events such as a talk this week by Sarah McKinley from the Washington think tank Democracy Collaborative….
…and landed one of the only teaching positions in the entire metro area—in the middle of a school year when a teacher abruptly quit at a high school in Charles County, Maryland, “a relatively new school that had been built to replace and combine the two segregated high schools in…
