Essentia Health Holding Virtual Advance Care Planning Classes
Essentia Health is hosting a series of free advance care planning (ACP) classes in the coming months. ACP is a process that helps you think and talk about your choices for health care in the future. It’s important for every adult to have an advance directive, also known as a living will or health care directive. The classes will be offered on the following […]
Fourth Annual Northland Peeps® Art Contest
Call for Entries The Superior Council for the Arts invites entries to the Fourth Annual Northland Peeps® Art Contest. Everyone is welcome to enter. All artwork must be made primarily of marshmallow Peeps. Entries are $5 and fun prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Individual, Children under 12, Family/Group, and Peeple’s Choice. Entries […]
Stephen Douglas and the Dream of Superior
A Frontier Vision on the Edge of Lake Superior In most American history books, Stephen A. Douglas appears as the fiery Illinois senator who debated Abraham Lincoln, authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and ran — unsuccessfully — for president in 1860. But along the far western shore of Lake Superior, in the young city that would […]
14th Annual Craft Beer & Wine Tasting Event Returns to Barker’s Island Inn
Rotary Club of Superior Sponsors Event for Local Organizations The Rotary Club of Superior is excited to host its 14th annual Craft Beer and Wine Tasting event atBarker’s Island Inn on March 25th at 5:30 p.m. Guests may purchase tickets from a Rotary member, at the door, or online. The night of fun will include […]
Strategic Planning
Emergency Services and Economic Development Teams Brace for the Blatnik Bridge Closure Even though naming of the general contractor is still a year away and the bridge closure itself isn’t scheduled until early 2027, there’s already been a good deal of brain power applied to considering all the contingencies that could affect quality of life […]
A Salute to the Manufacturing Month of October
And the Coolest Thing Made In Wisconsin Two Superior companies were among 148 vying for the title of Coolest Thing Made In Wisconsin. Fraser Shipyards entered a state-of-the-art car ferry into the annual contest and Epicurean entered their durable, knife-friendly composite-material cutting boards. Although winning the title is a giant honor, the contest began 10 […]
Meeting Yoga Clients Where They Are
Runa Yoga Offers Wellness, Adventure and Peace Poplar resident Madeline Fisher first got involved with yoga when she was pregnant with her first child seven years ago. “Prenatal yoga was very helpful to me all through my pregnancy and postpartum,” she said. “It had been a dream of mine to open my own yoga studio,” […]
UW-Superior to host family friendly Ojibwe Storytelling Night
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will host a family friendly Ojibwe Storytelling Night featuring Niigaanibinesiikwe Hannah Orie on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. in the Yellowjacket Union Shippar Family Atrium. Sponsored by UW-Superior’s Indigenous Cultures Resource Center and Student Support and Engagement, this event is free and open to the community. Orie, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) […]
Everything Old Is New Again
Dee Morales Is Cooking Again in the Town of Superior After spending a little more than two years operating Bucktales Cantina & Grill at 1015 Tower Ave. in downtown Superior, last July owners Dee and Mary Ellen Morales shut the doors and put an end to the legacy of Bucktales. “I was putting a lot […]
The Beautiful Mystery of Mushrooms
Wes Anderson Turned a Job Layoff Into a Business Selling Foraged Functional Fungi Back around the turn of the century, Betty Salisbury suffered a head injury that damaged her left occipital nerve. “For more than 20 years, I had chronic head pain,” said the Burnsville, Minn., resident. “I went to so many doctors in the […]