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Robert Rue Parsonage and Ruth Lull with sons at Northland College 1980s

Embracing the North

A cross country move, thirty-three years in the making.

Storm drain stencil

Stencil project teaches care for environment

The Chequamegon Water Collaborative (CWC), a Northland College student initiative, collaborated with Ashland Elementary School first graders Thursday, stenciling “Keep Our Bay Clean” artwork near storm drains in the city. The Collaborative has been working with regional schools to raise awareness about storm drains—that everything that flows into the drain,…

Fish Creek flowing into Chequamegon Bay

Researchers Prep region for Climate Change

…Professor of Sustainable Regional Development at Northland College in Ashland. He explained that precipitation estimates for the Bayfield Peninsula developed decades ago are inaccurate because they don’t take into account the unique local weather situation caused by geography and Lake Superior. “As we’ve learned more about how weather patterns set…

Survey Says: Citizens Love It Here

…so there is an investment opportunity for initiatives and programs to strengthen social ties for these two age groups,” Hofstedt said. Data was collected between August of 2014 and June of 2015. The survey was sent to randomly selected households across the region including the city of Ashland, city of…

Northland College student in the snow

4th Wall Resurrected

To Premiere Almost Maine Nov 11

…4th Wall member, Alyx Simon. “There are a lot of small businesses from Ashland brought up in Almost, Maine.” 4th Wall’s production takes some liberties with the play, subverting the intended gender roles in most of the vignettes. In the script, each vignette—save one—depict a man and a woman in…

Northland College alumnus Simeon Rossi standing behind bar full of lemons

From Ornithology to Loonshine

A STORY OF MODERN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

…prairies in southern Minnesota, and studied birds in Austin, Texas. But, before he left for that Austin job in January 2011, he brewed ten gallons of coffee liqueur—a refined recipe from his college years—for his own going away party. Why? “It’s like the difference between store bought cookies and the…