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Wildlife rehabilitator Phyllis Carlson of Quinnesec prepares to send Skadi a female snowy owl back into nature on Jan. 1. After several decades of volunteering, Carlson will be stepping away from wildlife rescue work.
(Theresa Proudfit/Daily News photo)
It might have all started with a baby blue jay.
When Phyllis Carlson was about 8 years old, a nest blew down in the yard at her home, spilling its occupants into the grass. Carlson said she collected the surviving chick and set it up in a box she placed outside her window.
She then watched the adult jays come in to feed its nestling.
Feb 5, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase that began in Florence, Wis., and ended with the driver barricaded in an Iron Mountain residence.
The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office was notified about 10:38 p.m. Tuesday that the Florence County sheriff’s deputies was pursuing a 2002 Jeep Liberty headed for the Michigan-Wisconsin border, according to a news release from the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office.
Iron Mountain deputies deployed stop sticks at the state line on U.S. 2 near the M-95 junction. The Jeep ran over the stop sticks and hit a patrol vehicle, damaging it enough it had to be towed, the release stated.
Feb 4, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase that began in Florence, Wis., and ended with the driver barricaded in an Iron Mountain residence.
The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office was notified about 10:38 p.m. Tuesday that the Florence County sheriff’s deputies was pursuing a 2002 Jeep Liberty headed for the Michigan-Wisconsin border, according to a news release from the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office.
Iron Mountain deputies deployed stop sticks at the state line on U.S. 2 near the M-95 junction. The Jeep ran over the stop sticks and hit a patrol vehicle, damaging it enough it had to be towed, the release stated.
IRON MOUNTAIN, MI A man who led police on a chase across the Wisconsin/Michigan border is in the Dickinson County Jail.
Tuesday around 10:38 p.m. Florence County Sheriff’s deputies alerted the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office they were pursuing a suspect on US-2 and he was headed to the border. Michigan officers deployed “stop sticks” on the highway near the M-95 junction. The suspect vehicle ran over the sticks and struck a patrol vehicle.
Dickinson County deputies took over pursuit of the vehicle, which slowly made its way into Iron Mountain on two tires. The suspect stopped at a residence on 5th Street and barricaded himself inside. He told police he had a child hostage and would kill the child if his demands weren’t met.
Parolee arrested in U.P. town after leading chase from Wisconsin on 2 wheels
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
IRON MOUNTAIN, MI – A man led authorities on a vehicle chase, at times on two wheels, that began in Wisconsin and ended at a home in the Upper Peninsula.
The incident began when the Florence County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin contacted the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office at 10:38 p.m. on Feb. 2 to inform deputies that a suspect was fleeing on U.S. 2 toward the Michigan-Wisconsin border in a 2002 Jeep Liberty.
Dickinson County deputies deployed “stop sticks” at the state line on U.S. 2 near M-95, which the Liberty struck, but the suspect continued to travel toward Iron Mountain on two wheels. A sheriff’s vehicle also sustained heavy damage at the border and needed to be towed from the scene.