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Crews battle wildfire
March 17, 2010
IRON MOUNTAIN — Firefighters have been called to a wildfire west of M-95 and just south of the Marquette County-Dickinson County line.
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Houghton 5th grader wins U.P. Spell Off
March 17, 2010
KINGSFORD — Noah Gershenson of Chassell is very excited to be going to Washington, D.C. after spelling ‘nominee’ correctly in the Upper Peninsula Community Education Association Spelling Bee Finals on Wednesday.
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Fatal train-car crash in Menominee County
March 17, 2010
STEPHENSON — A Green Bay, Wis. man is dead following a train-passenger vehicle accident in Daggett on Wednesday morning.
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Crystal Falls man drowns
March 17, 2010
CRYSTAL FALLS — Authorities have recovered the body of a Crystal Falls man whose off-road vehicle (ORV) fell through the ice Monday evening at the Michigamme Reservoir in Mansfield Township.
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Wildfires in northern Dickinson County
March 17, 2010
IRON MOUNTAIN— Two wildfires occurred in the northern portion of Dickinson County on Tuesday afternoon.
North Breitung Fire Department and the Felch Fire Department responded.
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Florence seeking stimulus funding
March 17, 2010
FLORENCE, Wis. — The Florence County Board of Supervisors has adopted a resolution to designate the county as a recovery zone for purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Unhealthy spending
Wed, March 17, 2010 @ 3:59PM
A recent article in Newsweek (“This won’t hurt a bit,” March 15) touches on one of the most under-discussed factors in rising health care costs — dubious treatments. Newsweek’s Sharon Begley reports that at least $500 billion a year goes towards tests and treatments that do not benefit patients. If accurate, that represents nearly one-fourth of all health care spending. One example cited is spinal fusions — 351,000 procedures in 2007 at a cost of $26 billion. Critics claim they are helpful only in rare cases where back pain is caused by a fracture or tumor. “At $75,000 per spinal-fusion procedure, medical-device makers, hospitals, and surgeons have every reason to keep the gravy train rolling,” Begley writes. If such treatments are sometimes unwarranted, what’s the solution? Insurers, Begley suggests, are “battle-weary” — more willing to raise premiums than to refuse coverage.
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City Park tennis will miss Ruby
Thu, March 4, 2010 @ 6:24PM
City Park tennis won’t be the same. Ruby, a sweetheart of a yellow Lab that attended every tennis day with her owner Jack, left us in February. Ruby’s ritual was to sniff around the courts for a few minutes, head to the car for a nap and let out a few yips when she pleased. Ruby followed that routine except for one day this past summer. She got out of the car — door’s always open with water available — and planted herself on the tennis court. In dog lingo, she told Jack, John, Phyllis and Chuck, Cathy, Connie, Mary and yours truly that “you’ve played enough. You’re not playing that great. Let’s go home.” We all looked at other, agreed with Ruby and left City Park. Ruby, you’ll be missed ..
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9-1-1 adventure
Thu, March 4, 2010 @ 5:30PM
Tuesday evening, which started out to be like any typically week night, turned into being quit eventful and also a little embarrassing. I started supper with the help of my 15-month-old daughter, Tessa. Yes, she thinks she’s helping when she is taking out spatulas, wooden spoons, pans, or emptying out the dish towel drawer. Dinner was in the oven and we moved to the living room for her to play with something more age appropriate. Then came the big mistake, leaving her in the living room by herself while I checked on dinner. As I was shutting the oven door I could her the buttons on the telephone dialing so I raced in the other room and grabbed the phone from her hands. I quickly pressed off button, but it was too late the dialed number had gone through. Yes she did, she dialed 9-1-1.
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Poor Carlie pup
Fri, March 12, 2010 @ 10:32AM
During the past several weeks our two-and-a-half year old son Jake has developed a bad habit of hitting or pinching our dog Carlie for no apparent reason. Carlie, a sweet five year old boxer mix, has exercised nothing but patience with Jake, but we can tell she is growing weary. She can be on the floor napping and Jake will just walk right up to her and smack her. Since our kids were born, we’ve never left them in a room alone with the dog, but we’re now paying even closer attention. Carlie, to her credit, will mostly just look up at me when Jake hits her with a “what did I do wrong” or “are you going to do something about this” look. She has on occasion given a little snarl back to Jake, which usually gets him laughing rather than running. But it’s more than enough of a warning for us to keep the two of them separated. We’ve tried a few different methods of discipline on Jake, but no luck. I’m hoping persistence will pay off in the discipline department, but we’ll.
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Swayze’s book details movie career
Thu, March 11, 2010 @ 12:05PM
I just finished reading “The Time of My Life” by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. (I read it in two sittings!) It was very interesting to read about their life — how they met and fell in love and spent their life together. Although they never had children, they had a rich life together from Patrick being a movie star, Lisa producing, directing and acting in movies, riding and showing horses together, dancing and producing songs, etc. They seemed to have enjoyed each other completely. Their book details all the movies Swayze starred in and how his character reflected his past or what he was going through at that time in his life. A little known fact is that he had been injured so many times in his life; while reading the book I couldn’t keep count of how many times he broke his legs dancing or from horse-riding accidents.
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Cultural changes
Wed, March 3, 2010 @ 2:39PM
Feeling old? Cultural changes make me feel even older. The Beloit College Mindset List, an annual study of cultural landmarks, emphasizes today’s generation gap. For today’s teens, rap music has always been mainstream, Mike Tyson has always been a felon, wars have always been broadcast live on TV, there has always been the Internet, flat-screen TVs, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and the KGB never officially existed. The older sports fans recall the great matchup between Irvin “Magic” Johnson of Michigan State University, and Larry Bird of Indiana State University. Today’s youth new Johnson was HIV positive before they even heard he had played for the Los Angeles Lakers. Today’s youth have never known a world without cable TV, HBO or the Cartoon Network. And they’ve never had the pleasure of using a card catalog. Today, everyone’s all about texting and BFF acronyms. It’s a nightmare for non-texters.
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No more secrets
Fri, March 5, 2010 @ 4:59PM
Is nothing secret anymore? Apparently, in this age of the Internet, cell phones and Youtube, it’s even hard to be a secret assassin. According to a story recently published by the Associated Press, a group of disguised assassins with fake passports were accused of killing an operative in Dubai. The hit team got into the Persian Gulf city undetected, pulled off the highly complex killing, and escaped unscathed: mission accomplished, or so they must have thought. But then the photos on their doctored passports were released by Dubai police and published worldwide. So were their 26 aliases, more than half of which turned out to belong to real-life dual nationals living in Israel. This lead to backlash by some of Israel’s allies and speculation from experts that the days of secret operatives are done. ‘‘The last assassination of its kind,’’ said a headline in the Israeli daily Haaretz. I hope that's not the case for all those spies out ther.
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Spring has sprung
Mon, March 15, 2010 @ 4:16PM
It sure was nice this past weekend to open up some windows and get outside in the sunshine. It makes you start feeling that winter is nearing its end and spring will come again. My husband is all geared up getting rid of snowbanks and ready to start with the yard cleanup. If I saw one, I saw 30 people of various ages biking by my house on Sunday. Everyone seemed to have that same feeling of hope as temperatures hit 60 degrees. I feel like a little kid every year when the snow melts. It brings back memories of playing marbles, skipping rope, roller skating and getting my bike wheels all pumped up. My all-time favorite bike was the one I got when I made my First Communion. My parents bought me a brand new blue banana bike with with a nifty flower basket on the front. I was the epitome of cool back them. That was my main means of transportation growing up — you either biked or walked. And my best friend lived on the other side of town about a mile away.
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Go Ahead Psychoanalyze Me
Thu, February 25, 2010 @ 3:34PM
So I had this dream...I have lots of dreams, but this one is still pretty vivid in my mind so I'm wondering what I am supposed to learn from it. I'm in my house, but it's not the house I live in now, It's much bigger, two stories, several large rooms filled with my family, friends, dogs, cats and I'm trying to accomplish something. Not sure what is it, but I'm having many distractions. My nephew wants to play, my niece is trying to show me something and the animals are running around the house. I go upstairs towards my room and in the stairwell I notice a big hole in the wall that leads to the attic. When I look into the attic I realize a large portion of the roof is missing. I can see blue skies and white clouds, birds flying around and suddenly a squirrel jumps down from the attic and runs through the house chasing the dogs and cats.
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"It only ends once..."
Thu, March 4, 2010 @ 3:24PM
I may be a relative newcomer to the hit ABC show “Lost,” but in less than a year, I’ve become a big fan. The show has multi-dimensional characters (and there certainly are a lot of them-something for everyone, I guess), believable dialogue, a complicated mythology (that has yet to be revealed), and a huge dose of suspense in every episode. All pluses in my book. After seeing the last half of season five as it aired last spring, I went back and watched every single episode in preparation for the big season six premiere on Feb. 2. All that “Lost” viewing transformed my interest into an obsession. I needed to know more... That’s how I got into spoilers. For some people, hearing spoilers about TV shows or movies can ruin their viewing experiences. It spoils the surprise. For me, spoilers only enhance my overall “Lost” experience. If I already know how something will turn out, I can concentrate on the other details. It’s a personal preference.
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