Category Archives: News
Upper Peninsula Roadside Parks Closing For Season October 27
All roadside parks operated by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in the Upper Peninsula will be closed for the season on Thursday, Oct. 27. MDOT maintains 32 roadside parks in the U.P. ...
Jack Hall Oct 19, 2022
Highline Broadband Helps To Pay for Children's Snack Bags
Highline has partnered with the Escanaba Recreation Department to give away snack bags to the kids registered with the After School Program. The snack bags will be given out prior to the Thanksgiving ...
Jack Hall Oct 19, 2022
Alpena Men Charged With Murdering Women Who Vanished Last Year
Two Alpena area men have been charged in the deaths of two local women who disappeared over a year ago, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski announced t...
Jack Hall Oct 19, 2022
Public Health Offering Free COVID-19 Testing Event Next Wednesday
As the weather becomes less reliable, the final free COVID-19 testing event at the Delta County Chamber of Commerce parking lot will be on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Public Health, Delta & Menom...
Jack Hall Oct 19, 2022
Peters' Bill Requiring Energy-Efficient Lights Signed By Biden
Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that would help save taxpayer dollars by directing the General Services A...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
Update On Menominee Warehouse Fire Clean-Up, Aftermath
City, state, and federal officials on Tuesday (10/18/2022) released an update on response activities for the warehouse fire at the Resolute Forest Products in Menominee, which started back on October ...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
NMU-Funded Study On Alaskan Brown Bears Published
Northern Michigan University researchers were involved in a recent collaborative study of the gut microbiome of Alaskan brown bears, which shows that the microbial life in bears' guts allows them to a...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
Iron Mountain VA Center Shares World War II Survival Story
Story courtesy of the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center In November of 1943, as a stock clerk at the Peterson Boat Works in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., John Moddie signed his name and enlisted in the U.S. Ar...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
Downstate Man Gets Prison Time For Counterfeit Baseball Cards
U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sentenced Bryan Kennert, 57, of Norton Shores, to 30 months in prison after selling $43,354.94 of antique baseba...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
Nearly 433,000 Michigan Absentee Ballots Already Returned
With three weeks to go before the Nov. 8 general election, absentee ballot numbers continue to grow -with 1.7 million already sent to voters who requested them and 432,960 returned. Three weeks ahead ...
Jack Hall Oct 18, 2022
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