James Robert Hanson, who sold advertising for several Madison-area newspapers, died Friday, Feb. 12, at his home in Middleton. He was 86.

Hanson graduated from UW-Madison, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and met his future wife, Myrna. The couple settled in the Madison area, where Hanson went on to sell ads for the Wisconsin State Journal, The Capital Times and the Middleton Times-Tribune, among others.

Dean Norman Jensen, who served as the Milwaukee Sentinel art critic and later opened his own gallery, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Milwaukee. He was 82.

Jensen started his journalism career with newspapers in Manitowoc and Sheboygan before joining the Sentinel news staff in 1967. He started as a general assignment reporter and eventually became the newspaper’s art critic.

In 1987, Jensen left the Sentinel to open the Dean Jensen Gallery in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward. The art gallery, which later moved to Water Street in downtown Milwaukee, had a nearly 30-year run before closing in 2016.

Mary Therese McLoone, who co-founded Lake Country Publications with her husband Jim McLoone, died Thursday, Feb. 4, at her home. She was 91.

The couple bought their first newspaper in Stewartville, Minn., and in 1960 relocated to Hartland, Wis., where they founded the Lake Country Reporter and its parent company, Lake Country Publications. The company went on to include four weeklies, one semi-monthly and two shoppers before they sold it in 1990. 

Their son, John McLoone, publishes the Pierce County Journal in Prescott and the Stanley Republican.