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The four buildings, for which Ho-Chunk paid a little more than $3.2 million, are home to bars, restaurants and retail outlets, and a number of apartments, some occupied, others uninhabited

This will be Prestige Marketplace’s first in Queens, joining additional locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan

Ho-Chunk buying historic buildings in Sioux City MASON DOCKTER, Sioux City Journal March 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A division of Ho-Chunk Inc. announced last week it has acquired a set of historic structures on the 1000 block of Sioux City’s Historic Fourth Street from the Aalfs family. Ho-Chunk Capital’s purchases include the landmark building that housed Aalfs Manufacturing’s corporate offices for much of the 20th century. Built in 1890, the five-story bri...

Times Past: Feb. 23, 2021 Published: 2/24/2021 2:42:28 PM Modified: 2/24/2021 2:42:26 PM 1996 Washington’s Birthday is renowned in the area for the hatchet hunt sponsored by the Athol Fire Department and the Athol Area YMCA. More than 350 area youth with many parents ventured into the Bearsden Woods in search of 50 prizes, the most coveted of which were two engraved hatchets. Winners of the hatchets in the 74th hunt were Adam Richard, 13, of Phillipston, who found the Washington Hatchet and ...