“Where the coffee’s hot, the lakes are cold, and all the children are above average.” — Serving the Chain since 1897.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · June 30 Edition · 3 story item(s) in this section.
Library
Ruth Aune has stopped improvising. The reading ladder is laminated now, the tiers run up to Elk, and what lies above Elk she declines, “on the advice of experience,” to say.
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Schools
A science teacher from away, plus a band director and an elementary teacher who graduated from the Pike — which Superintendent Dale Brandt calls “the entire point.”
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County Fair
Entry books are out early this year. The new “lake crafts” category is undefined on purpose, and the giant-pumpkin rivalry remains, by tradition, a two-family cold war conducted entirely in the dark.
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