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Can you spot yourself in our archive school photos from the 1990s? THE bell is ringing and it's time to line up for another slice of school nostalgia. As promised, we're returning to Colchester Royal Grammar School for the second of three spreads featuring archive pictures from the 1990s. Today's selection features quizmasters, Oxbridge candidates, a reunion of old boys and former headmaster Stewart Francis. Reliving the past - this reunion of Grammar School ‘old boys’ took place in December 1991 Hopefully they bring back fond memories for some of our readers. If so, make sure y...

CADILLAC — The eyes of past and present 28th Circuit Court judges watched as Lindsey Meier gave her closing arguments of a murder trial.

Heather Berklund never envisioned herself as the Chief State Forester. She had worked for the DNR forestry division for two decades in the Northwoods, but didn’t have her mind set on the top job. “I would say it was never on my radar that I would ever be talking to you in this role or be in this position,” Berklund said on a recent interview, conducted while snowshoeing through the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest near Woodruff. But hard work and dedication paid off, and the DNR put her on top of the Rhinelander-based state division of forestry last October.

AleSocci/GreenPixel Seventy teams from across New Zealand will head to Rotorua this March for the 2021 GODZone event. File photo. It piqued the interest of a group of Waikato farmers and a former Auckland rugby player 18 months ago, and they’ve been training since. Hailing from the Matamata-Piako District, Steve Borkin, Rose Carnachan, Kieran Landley and Ben Meyer say they are “more than ready” after the GODZone’s 2019 challenge was postponed due to Covid-19. “It’s been a long time coming,” Borkin told Stuff. “We don’t really know what we’ve got ourselves into.” Th...

But in March 2020, they were forced to close as COVID-19 swept the state. That meant hundreds of millions of dollars for tribal health care, education, and social services evaporated as casino revenues slowed or stopped. Casinos in our area are mostly open again, but things aren’t like they were before. And it could be years before revenues recover. Table games at Mole Lake Casino remain closed for safety. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Many casinos were at least partially open again by June 2020, but Mole Lake Casino, run by the Sokaogon Chippewa tribe, held out. “We could have opened back in Jun...