Trail access questionable
in the Snomo Capital?

Eagle River, a city which carries as one of its trademarks the theme “Snowmobile Capital of the World,” shouldn’t be having such difficulty trying to develop a responsible, effective ordinance for allowing its residents to use most city streets in order to access a designated snowmobile route.

While we don’t expect the city council will go so far as to allow snowmobiles to run at will on Wall Street, Railroad Street, the Pine Street bypass or even much of Main Street, the bulk of city’s streets should be open for the sole purpose of convenient trail access.

Besides city residents and property owners, that trail access privilege should be

Letter to the Editor:

As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. Apparently it also flies when your air is clean. It may be hard to believe, but Wisconsin’s landmark smoke-free workplace law is turning three years old July 5.

Today, many take it for granted that smoking isn’t allowed in Wisconsin bars and restaurants, but it wasn’t that long ago that you had to choose between no smoking and smoking sections or avoid places all together because they were simply too smoky.

Now, because of the smoke-free air law, Wisconsin’s workers are healthier, and everyone in Vilas County is able to enjoy a night out with family and friends without risking exposure to secondhand smoke.

However, the benefits of the smoke-free law are not limited

Letter to the Editor:

Earlier this spring, Vilas County Sheriff Frank Tomlanovich, along with a few other county sheriffs from the North Woods, offered up some of his valuable time to sit on a panel that focused on questions surrounding the constitutional powers of the office that he holds.

Held in Iron Mountain, Mich., the open meeting saw more than 200 interested citizens in attendance who had come to hear law enforcement officials openly and honestly answer a variety of questions focused on constitutional law enforcement practices and on their feelings about further restrictions on Americans’ rights under the Second Amendment.

As one of several Vilas County residents who attended,

Letter to the Editor:

I have the belief that Obama has done nothing to help our country, and in fact, has done everything he can to subjugate us. He has preached these ideals for decades now, is close friends with those who push these beliefs and even included them in his book. Yet he was re-elected.

He has taken freedoms away from us. He has put us deeper into debt. Our dollar is growing poorer as are we. He has given away trillions to useless entities.  Now we, our children and our grandchildren are stuck with the bill and less freedom. How can this be so? How can the American people re-elect someone who does this? Well it

Dear Editor:

After reading the article in last week’s paper about Cloverland’s public hearing on the sex-offender ordinance, I?felt I?needed to let the public know what was not written about and why we were all so upset.

To us, a school bus stop is a child-safety zone. It does not matter how many children wait at a bus stop. In fact, it is actually more dangerous when there are only a few children at a bus stop versus several children. If a town hall and boat landings are considered child-safety zones, why then is a bus stop not considered a child-safety zone?

We have been requesting the Cloverland Town Board and Plan Commission