Dispatches from Douglas County: Road closures, literary stars, prep track and field and more

Apr. 14—SUPERIOR — We've gotten a ton of questions about this so I'm going to tackle it straight away: we didn't find out the locations of the Packers Tailgate Tour stops in Superior until late last week. A few of them were surprise stops, so we were sworn to secrecy about them. Watch for a story from Maria Lockwood and photos from Jed Carlson on our website soon.

In other news, volunteers have revived

the Gordon Good Neighbor Days planning committee,

and the annual event will be held July 1-2.

And the Superior City Council is set to consider several project requests when it meets on Tuesday, April 18:

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First step toward replacing the Barker's Island bridge

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Bid to replace Lift Station 3 in Billings Park

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Plan to stabilize shoreline erosion on Girls Scout Point

Here's are the rest of this week's headlines:

County and city officials are keeping their eyes on water levels near roadways and bridges

as snow continues to melt.

A portion of Wisconsin Highway 13 in Douglas County reopened, but the Bayfield stretch of the highway is closed from the border with Douglas County to Port Wing because of culvert failures.

In this month's episode of Archive Dive, local historian Teddie Meronek tells us about Gordon MacQuarrie (pictured above) and J.W. Beecroft,

two literary legends

who graduated in the same class from Superior Central High School.

The Superior boys track and field team took first at

the Packy Paquette indoor track meet

on April 6, while the girls took third.

Northwestern's boys team finished seventh in the 11-team field, while the Tiger girls team took sixth.

If you scroll down further, you'll also see results from the Solon Springs track and field team's performance at the Indianhead Conference indoor meet in Ashland.

* Emily Stone's column this week is

on spiders that glow and it is FASCINATING.

The photos alone are worth a look.

* The Superior School Board will

discuss school consolidation on Monday, April 17.

* Free landfill days are back!

Details here.

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