Solon Springs News

NYT public editor Clark Hoyt on word usage at the Gray Lady. A LINGUISTIC shift took place in this newspaper as it reported the details of how the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to strip Al Qaeda prisoners naked, bash them against walls, keep them awake for up to 11 straight days, sometimes with their arms chained to the ceiling, confine ...

Members of the Solon Springs exercise club follow along to a exercise video in the choir room at Solon Springs School.

Danielle Deming is building sweat equity at Solon Springs School. The long-term substitute teacher launched a new fitness club in February to encourage fitness and boost community health.

It was business as usual in the Douglas County District Attorney's office Wednesday.

The University of Wisconsin-Superior is canceling classes after 3 p.m. today. St. Louis County Historical Society annual dinner and meeting, including the board of governors meeting scheduled for today has been canceled.

For nearly two years a group of citizens has been working to devise a plan to guide Douglas Countya s future.

Bernie Hughes, Ed.D., is a retired educator who resides in Superior. People save different things.

A theft charge against a Solon Springs woman accused of taking as much as $71,000 from the bank accounts of an elderly couple who granted her power of attorney was dismissed this week.

President Barack Obama tossed out a challenge to American teens Tuesday during his address to Congress.

Scammers using the "grandson" ploy targeted two Douglas County residents last week, according to Sheriff's Department reports.

A jack-knifed semi truck is blocking traffic along the Eastbound lanes of Highway A near 3rd Street East near Solon Springs, Wisconsin.

The following is another "Have Fun or Get Out of the Way" column by Don Leighton and Mike Granlund and their alter egos, Lance Boyle and Billy Pirkola, which runs occasionally in The Superior Telegram.

The Solon Springs Eagles girls basketball team got off to a rough start and never could quite recover, falling to Butternut/Glidden 54-22 in Solon Springs on Friday night.

For nearly a century, trumpeter swans were absent from Wisconsin. The majestic white birds were reintroduced to the state in the 1980s and today are thriving.

Scott M. Roske, 46, of South Range died suddenly Dec. 12, 2008 in Cloquet, Minn.

Kay Karras is a poet. Now everyone will know it. The 90-year-old Bennett woman released her first full-length book of poetry, "Bits of Birch," last week.