MADISON — Retired longtime Purity Spring Resort/King Pine Ski Area General Manager Bob Hoyt died from complications from cancer Tuesday night. He was 71.
The Hoyt family — which has owned and operated the property since the late 1800s — posted the following statement on Facebook:
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