“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1903.
City Council
Three appointed to study the corner at Birch and Second; the fourth seat goes begging after Bunde declines “on principle.”
MISQUAH — The City Council on Monday appointed three members to the new subcommittee charged with studying a proposed fourth stop sign at Birch Street and Second Avenue, leaving the panel one seat short of the four it had, after some discussion, decided it ought to have.
Named were Alderman Pete Hagen, the sign’s longtime champion; City Clerk Donna Skoglund, serving ex officio and, she noted for the minutes, “against my own advice”; and resident Harold Aas, the retired postmaster, who said he had “nothing pressing until the fishing picks back up.”
The fourth seat went unfilled. Mayor Gloria Vik had proposed a four-member panel “for balance,” a structure that immediately raised the prospect of tie votes. Asked how the subcommittee would break a 2–2 deadlock, Vik said it could “cross that bridge if it ever builds one.”
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Looking Ahead
The Independence Day committee met Thursday at the Legion and finalized plans for the Fourth of July celebration, which will, the committee is pleased to report, closely resemble the celebration held last year, and the year before, and for as long as anyone can reliably remember. More →
Around Town
A black bear that has developed an interest in the dumpster behind the Daybreak Café returned for a third consecutive night Sunday, prompting the café to secure the lid with a bungee cord, a length of chain, and what owner Marge Tollefson described as “a stern note the bear has not, so far, acknowledged.” More →
Public Works
The water department completed its annual hydrant flushing across town last week, restoring clear water to the east side by Thursday and generating, by the department’s own tally, three telephone calls to City Clerk Donna Skoglund — exactly the number the department had predicted, and, it noted, “down one from last year.” More →
The Fishing Report
The walleye have gone a little sullen at midday on the Chain, as they tend to once the water climbs past sixty-five, but the evening bite on Big Pelican remains, in the considered judgment of the cleaning station behind Tim’s, “honest.” More →
On the Water
The first loon chicks of the season were sighted on Big Pelican over the weekend — two of them, riding low on their mother’s back near the Loon Ridge shoreline — prompting the Chain’s loon-count volunteers to revise their tally upward and the resort, once again, to ask its guests to slow down. More →
Summer Rec League
The Lakeside Pike improved to 2–0 in the Northwoods Recreation League on Saturday, beating the visiting Two Rivers Loggers 9–5 in a game notable, after last week, mainly for what it lacked: any argument whatsoever about the left-field fence. More →
Legion Baseball
The Misquah Post 162 Legion baseball team picked up its first win of the season Wednesday, beating Birchard 5–3 at the Legion field under a single working light tower that, manager Sonny Dahl reported afterward, “held, on account of nobody leaning on the panel.” More →
The Library
Brynn Solberg has cleared the wolves. More →
Editorial · Our View
The town now has a subcommittee to study the corner of Birch and Second, and the subcommittee, as of Monday, has three members and an empty fourth chair. More →
Living · Eunice’s Kitchen
There is too much rhubarb. More →
Obituary
Doris Eleanor Knutson, 93, of Misquah, died peacefully on Wednesday, June 11, 2026, at the Lakeview care home in Pinedale, with her family near. More →
