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The night at Mandalay Bay SEAN DEVLIN EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM
LAS VEGAS—“It sounded like a snare drum solo,” said Grantsburg native Mark Bergman of the treacherous gunfire that brought Las Vegas and the rest of the United States to its knees on Oct. 1. Bergman graduated from Grantsburg High School in 1997, attended UW-Stout, and eventually moved to Florida where he is an IT consultant. He also serves in the National Guard. He arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 1 for an IT conference. By 9:30 p.m. Bergman was in his eighth-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room. The shooting began less than 30 minutes later. He originally thought the sound of gunfire was an instrument. “It just kept going and going. That’s when I realized it was gunfire.” Mass shootings in the United States are news notifications on cell phones, or big, black, bold
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More ATV routes to open
Grantsburg Pirates head coach Adam Hale celebrates with his team after defeating the Unity Eagles 31-6 on Friday (Oct. 13) to win the North Lakeland Conference title. They made GHS history with their third straight undefeated regular season conference championship. See story and photos on page 18.
Couple plans microbrewery in downtown Grantsburg
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TOWN OF SWISS— The green light for ATVs has been shining bright for several months now. The domino affect began in the early summer when the County Board approved a five-mile stretch of County Road B from the Village of Siren limits to Immee Road. In early October, the Siren Village Board announced all village roads will be open to ATV travel. One of the main reasons for both of these initiatives stems from the understanding that Burnett County relies heavily on tourism income. As reported last week, Siren Village Board member Rick Engstrom announced at the monthly meeting, “There is tourism money to be had. That’s what we live on up here.” This sentiment was echoed during the latest Infrastructure committee meeting as the board motioned and approved the request for four routes in the Town of Swiss. The routes: County road H from State Road 77 to Cemetery Fire Lane; County Road H from State Road 35 to Burls Trail; County
BY STEVE BRIGGS SENTINEL
GRANTSBURG—Ben and Nicki Peterson, operators of one of Grantsburg area’s largest dairy farms, announced this week
they have purchased the Lions Club building on the west end of Madison Avenue (Main Street) in downtown Grantsburg. Among their plans for the building may be a microbrewery, a coffee shop and patio overlooking
Memory Lake Park. On a recent website posting, Nicki Peterson wrote, “Ben and I are excited to share that we recently purchased this cool old brick building from the Grantsburg Lions Club. The early 1900s building was originally a creamery and is across the street from Memory Lake Park in downtown Grantsburg.” Nicki Peterson is active in the SEE MICRO, PAGE 7
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New owners Ben and Nicki Peterson of Grantsburg have big 2018 plans for the old creamery building at the west end of Grantsburg’s main street, including an office for her marketing business ‘Spry Content,’ a microbrewery and possibly a coffee shop.
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