Student Art Exhibit On Display At Marquette's Peter White Public Library
Deo Gallery's May exhibit features over one hundred local student artists from Marquette Senior High School (Instructor Jake Fether), Negaunee High School (Instructor Kimberly Schefchik), Ishpeming High School (Instructor Alexandra Trotter), and Gwin...
May 07, 2024
Bay College Honors Outstanding Student Employee On Iron Mountain Campus
Bay College honored its 2024 Outstanding Student Employee during a ceremony held at the Iron Mountain Campus. Each year, Bay College honors an Outstanding Student Employee. Any Bay College employee, Board Member, student, alumni, or community member ...
May 07, 2024
Michigan Senator Presses VA During Hearing On Veteran Apprenticeships
During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis R. McDonough, U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) received an update on the VA's efforts to promote apprenticeship opportunities that are available to veterans throug...
May 07, 2024
Superior Watershed Partnership Buys 1,800 Acres Of Land Near Covington
The Superior Watershed Partnership (SWP) Land Conservancy in cooperation with Baraga County are pleased to announce the purchase and protection of 1,184 acres of wild Northwoods forest including over 4 miles of river frontage on the Sturgeon River (C...
May 03, 2024
More han 200 Graduate From Hospitality Training Course; Seven From U.P.
Statewide, 238 Michigan residents have graduated from the first 2024 cohort of the Hospitality Training Institute of Michigan's Business Management course. This 12-week course taught students business and leadership skills that will help them establi...
May 03, 2024
Rose, Korhonen Earn Bay College Outstanding Staff Awards
Bay College honored its 2024 Outstanding Staff during an awards banquet held on April 16. Any Bay College employee, Board Member, student, alumni, or community member may nominate a full-time or regular part-time exempt or non-exempt employee for the...
May 03, 2024
U.S. Senate Passes Peters Legislation Protecting Veterans Burial Rights
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed U.S. Senator Gary Peters' (MI) bipartisan legislation to ensure military families can continue to be laid to rest together in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries. Under current law, in the tr...
May 03, 2024
Bergman Bill To Delist Gray Wolf As Endangered Species Passes U.S. House
This week, the Trust the Science Act, a bill that Upper Peninsula Representative Jack Bergman cosponsored, passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states, return control of wolf conse...
May 03, 2024
Michigan National Guard To Help Improve Wilderness State Park
A series of construction projects, executed in partnership between the Michigan Army National Guard and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, will occur at Wilderness State Park from May 3 to May 13. In the last four years, MIARNG members hav...
May 03, 2024
Escanaba To Hold Informational Meeting On Water, Wastewater Projects
Informational meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of every month at Escanaba City Hall. City Staff, C2AE Engineering Staff, and Contractors will be providing information and be available for questions regarding projects. May's meeting will f...
May 01, 2024
One Man Dead, Two People 'Severely Injured' In Crash Near Escanaba
On April 29, 2024, at approximately 3:50 p.m., troopers from the Michigan State Police Gladstone Post, responded to US-2/41 Hwy. near E & K Auto Repair in Wells Twp. for a report of a crash involving two pickup trucks. After further investigation...
Apr 30, 2024
Whitmer Wants 5,000 New Infrastructure Workers Trained, Placed In Needed Jobs
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Directive 2024-1 to help train 5,000 new infrastructure workers, who will each earn an industry-recognized certificate or credential or receive on-the-job training. The Michigan Department of Labor and Eco...
Apr 30, 2024