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11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Construction close to our door county driveway is FINISHED! Hallelujah!

Highway 57 between Baileys Harbor and Jacksonport is NOW OPEN!

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the multi-year construction project to replace culverts at Logan Creek, Lily Bay Creek and Geisel Creek and now Hibbard Creek is now completed.

The Hibbard Creek structure is the last structure replacement in the project.

11/05/2025

Every one of our endorsed candidates won last night! Join us in sending a congratulations to all.

05/27/2025

Alla Osipenko, a longtime star of Russia’s Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet, died on May 12 in her home city of St. Petersburg at age 92.

Born June 16, 1932, Osipenko entered the Vaganova Academy in 1941 and was among the last pupils of Agrippina Vaganova. She joined the Kirov Ballet in 1950, rising to principal dancer. In addition to dancing classic roles like Odette/Odile and the Lilac Fairy, she originated the Lady of the Copper Mountain role in Yuri Grigorovich’s “The Stone Flower,” and was a frequent partner of Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Yuri Soloviev. She thrilled audiences when she performed in Paris with the Stanislavsky-Nemirovich Danchenko troupe as a guest in 1956. But she was also outspoken in her defiance of Soviet norms, which led to friction with and suspicion from Kremlin authorities. She was denied international touring and other casting opportunities with the Kirov after Nureyev’s defection and her refusal to join the Communist Party.

Osipenko left the Kirov in 1971 and went on to dance with the more experimental companies of choreographers Leonid Yakobson and Boris Eifman, retiring in 1981. She moved to the U.S. in 1995, working with the Hartford Ballet for five years. Osipenko returned to St. Petersburg in 2000, working with Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov and acting as a coach for the Mikhailovsky Ballet. ”She was always a legend,” wrote Asiya Lukmanova, head of Russian Masters Ballet, on social media. “When she entered the studio, we felt her, even if you were standing with your back to the door. It was the magnetic aura of the greatest dancer.”



📸: Photo by Nina Alovert, Courtesy Nina Alovert

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(1) A black and white image of Alla Osipenko standing en pointe with her right leg extended and her right arm in an arc above her head. Her gaze is downward. Text reads: Alla Osipenko 1932-2025
(2) A black and white image of Alla Osipenko performing in “The Stone Flower.” Her left leg is lifted in attitude, and her right arm reaches back toward it. Her chest is open to the ceiling.

05/27/2025

02/21/2025

09/04/2023

Check out the creepy trailer for Baby Ruby, an upcoming movie starring Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, and Meredith Hagner. Baby Ruby tells the story of Jo, ...

09/03/2023

Once in a BLUE MOON around our precious and endangered planet.

A rare blue supermoon — the closest full moon of the year — dazzled stargazers Wednesday night. Saturn joined the celestial spectacle, visible alongside the moon, at least where skies were clear.

09/03/2023

God Eternity and POETRY.