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Realtor Lisa Alsteen shows off the features of a century-old four-bedroom house near the courthouse in Rhinelander.
Painted blue on the outside, it has wood floors, a sunny living room, and an inviting porch in front.
Alsteen listed the home, located at 133 North Oneida Avenue, on Monday.
By midday Tuesday, several potential buyers had already been though for showings. She expected an offer wouldn’t take long.
That’s typical these days.
Last spring, the demand for Northwoods homes shot skyward, like nothing Alsteen has seen in her 18 years in realty.
“All of a sudden, it was just like, everyone wanted to be up here. That’s when our market started to really take off,” she said.
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“Things took off,” said Mitch Mode, the owner of Mel s Trading Post in Downtown Rhinelander. “We didn’t run a smarter business, we got luckier.”
Mitch Mode stands near a row of 11 bicycles - a fraction of what he typically has in stock.
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Mel’s Trading Post sells all kinds of outdoor equipment – from bikes and kayaks to snowshoes and skis.
Mode said these items have always been popular.
“But in the year of COVID became increasingly strong to the point where it’s no secret in the world that that bicycles were difficult to find on a good day, impossible the rest of the time,” he said.
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Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Only “trace amounts” of PFAS were found in liquid discharged from the long-closed City of Rhinelander landfill, new testing shows.
The testing was part of an effort to identify sources of PFAS contamination in Rhinelander-area water. High levels of PFAS forced the city to shut down two of its five municipal drinking water wells in 2019.
“I am pleased to report that our first round of analytical samples of five samples from the City of Rhinelander Legacy Landfill contained relatively low-levels of PFAS, as might be expected for a common municipal solid waste landfill,” said Dr. James Tinjum, who the city hired to consult on PFAS issues.