Donna Nickel, the Sawyer County Record‘s lake columnist for the Spider Lake News, has penned her last column the newspaper.
Nickel, a Cleveland native, has been writing the column — “leaving her unique stamp of whimsy, humor and insight on a column devoted to community news, stories, events, weather, anniversaries and birthdays” — since Jan. 8, 2014. During the last eight years, it has developed a devoted following, writes the Record‘s Kathy Hanson.
“Donna is a day-brightener — for me and for her readers, especially,” Dan Peterson, a copy editor at the newspaper said. “She never missed a deadline or a column. If her computer or internet went down, she would drive the column into the office. She’s a trooper.”
