Letter to the Editor:

Traveling from your home to the closest trail by snowmobile seems to be a big issue with the city.

I recently received a ticket from Eagle River Police Department for $200.50 for operating a snowmobile on any highway. I was not on a highway, I was on Silver Lake Road. My snowmobile  was parked off the side of the road out of fuel, not running, with no one on it. I walked my sled home (very dangerous not being able

Letter to the Editor:

It sure looks like the Republicans don’t care about the environment as they pass the new mining bill. They only revised it slightly to please the Democrats, but it doesn’t go far enough to protect our lakes, streams and wetlands.

They say it will create 70 new jobs, but at the expense of our beautiful God’s country up north. I guess the governor doesn’t care about clean water because he probably drinks bottled water like Marco Rubio.

And now he is turning down federal money again

Letter to the Editor:

I’d like to offer a suggestion to the Eagle River City Council.

Now that the Seyfert family has consolidated its auto service business to Highway 17

Dear Editor:

This letter is in regard to last week’s headline concerning all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).

One can only hope that the members of the Vilas County Board will not “Three Lakes”

Cart put before the horse
with town’s ATV decision

The Three Lakes Town Board made a bold statement last week in favor of all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use on just about any town road, but the endorsement will do little to help the tourism industry or a struggling local economy if the town and ATV club can’t secure an east-west corridor that gives riders access to other counties.

In what many opponents will label as a railroad job that was done quickly in the dead of winter, the town board’s shocking split vote on a highly polarizing issue comes just one month after a formal proposal and map were released to the public in mid-January.