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Happy Halloween! Despite the chilly temps, kids and adults hit the streets Tuesday night for some good old fashioned Trick-OrTreating. Above, Star Wars was the name of the game for this bunch at T-Dawg’s annual Trunk or Treat event.
GRANTSBURG— The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources concluded “Nuisance Bear Hunting Season” earlier this month. Hunters were allowed to apply for permits for hunting bears in Grantsburg on their own private land. The DNR two-year pilot program has ended with 14 bears harvested last year and another nine this year. The hunt went from Sept. 13 through Oct. 10. Steve Hoffman, Crex Meadows Wildlife Area Supervisor said the nuisance calls from 2016 through 2017 have dropped off significantly. The quota for both years was 24 bears – with 23 bears harvested over two years, the program was deemed a success. Private land owners eligible for permits have to own at least five acres of land and it had to be within 1.5 miles of
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BURNETTCOUNTY—Remember to set your clocks back one hour before retiring Saturday evening, and enjoy an extra hour of sleep. Daylight Savings Time officially ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. Wikipedia®, the online encyclopedia, calls the event “Daylight Saving Time,” though most people in the Midwest say “savings,” plural. Whichever you prefer, it always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, with the time change taking place at exactly 2 a.m. With a word play referring to seasons, clocks “spring forward, fall back” – that is, in springtime the clocks are moved forward from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. and in fall they are moved back from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. Daylight Saving Time goes back to 1918 and has been lengthened so it now lasts a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the year.
SIREN— Gage Holmes, sophomore at Siren High School is an important part of the varsity football team. The sidelines were ecstatic earlier this season when he rushed for 100 yards and scored a touchdown in a game against Winter at the Lakeland Jamboree. Holmes wears two cochlear implants because he was born deaf. His teammates, coaches, and teachers agree – he is like everybody else on the football field. “After he scored the entire team did the sign language for clapping,” Gage Holmes said Holmes’ teacher Lisa Seaman. “It was so cool looking at the sideline and seeing everyone with their hands up congratulating Gage.”
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Wood River corridor “We’d get calls saying there’s a bear drinking out of our swimming pool and from the ground you would have no idea why the bear is coming through here,” said Hoffman. “But you look at it from above or a map you can easily see this corridor is what bear, deer, and other wildlife follow.” Hoffman said the bear population is larger in Grantsburg when looking at overall state population. The black bear density is about two bear every square mile based on population estimates.
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Four charged in ‘strongarm robbery’ MUDHEN LAKE—Four Burnett County residents are charged in Burnett County District Court as “parties to a crime” in what Sheriff Ron Wilhelm calls “a strongarm robbery.” Charged are Jeremy Rader, 26 and Andrea Arcand, 24, both of Grantsburg, and Preston Mason, 28 and Holly Graves, 37, both of Siren. The four are charged with the same three counts: • Armed Robbery as a Party to a Crime, a Class C felony; • Theft as a Party to Crime, a Class A misdemeanor; and • Battery as a Party to Crime, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, the felony count carries a maximum fine of up to $100,000 and up to 40 years in prison.
village limits. This year up to 100 permits were to be given out. In the end a total of 84 permits were issued for the hunt this year, In 2016 there were a total of 75 permits issued for the hunt.
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