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Jodi Summit BREITUNG TOWNSHIP- It was the end of an era as master booyah chef Nick Tekautz was honored for his 32 years, or perhaps it was 36 years, of chef service for the annual Vermilion Range Old Settlers Picnic on Saturday. Tekautz has now trained in a younger generation of Tekautzes and Tormas to take over the supervision of the hundreds of gallons of meat-and-vegetable stew prepared each year. Tekautz wasn’t quite sure how many years he had been in charge, after being asked by his father-in-law Herb Lamppa to take over for “just one year” when the committee needed a new head cook...

Marshall Helmberger TOWER—A tiny father-son company that’s operated for three generations in Tower has won a U.S. patent on a device that is completely transforming what the world long believed about the burning of wood. For generations, burning wood for heat has been associated with dirty emissions, that used to create environmental and public health impacts in many small and mid-sized cities where wood-burning was common. That’s why many cities began restricting the use of wood-burning devices by the 1990s and why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eventually began to regulate...

Marshall Helmberger TOWER—A tiny father-son company that’s operated for three generations in Tower has won a U.S. patent on a device that is completely transforming what the world long believed about the burning of wood. For generations, burning wood for heat has been associated with dirty emissions, that used to create environmental and public health impacts in many small and mid-sized cities where wood-burning was common. That’s why many cities began restricting the use of wood-burning devices by the 1990s and why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eventually began to regulate...