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ELY- Some Ely high school athletes won well-deserved praise from Ely School Board Chair Ray Marsnik at the start of Monday’s board meeting. “The girls volleyball team should be …

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ELY – Two Ely High School softball players, senior Charly Flom and junior Kate Coughlin, earned All-Arrowhead Conference honors following the 2022 season.They were key contributors to a …

ELY – The Timberwolves softball team won two of three on the road late last week and brought their 6-1 record home this week where they lost to International Falls on Monday and beat …

ELY – The Ely High School softball team is playing a waiting game to get their spring season in gear as winter maintains a tight grip on the North Country. Like all other sports this spring, …

ELY – A small but determined group of Ely school district residents pushed the school board here Monday night to immediately lift the COVID-19 protective face-mask mandate that has been in …

David Colburn ELY – The Timberwolves softball team took the field here last Thursday for the first time in two years and opened a new season with a new coach, Cory Lassi, who is replacing longtime softball coach Tom McDonald. Lassi had stepped away as Ely football coach last fall, but he’s eager to be mentoring the young group of girls representing Ely this year. Nine of the 20 players on the roster are in seventh or eighth grade, with a relative handful of upper classmen filling out the r...

Keith Vandervort ELY – ISD 696 School Board members approved the 2021 property tax levy Monday night that shows a 32-percent increase over last year’s levy. The 2021 levy of $2,373,475 is an increase of $576,411 over the 2020 levy of $1,797,064. District voters approved a $10 million bond in August to help finance a $20 million school building renovation project. Construction is expected to start in the spring. No taxpayers participated in Monday’s truth-in-taxation public hearing that pr...