IRON MOUNTAIN — Members and friends of the Iron Mountain area Raja Ryhma Finnish American organization enjoyed an afternoon of St. Urho’s Day festivities on March 11, at the Recreation Lanes Antoine Room in Iron Mountain. The colors of royal purple and green dominated the scene and ...
NIAGARA, Wis. — Children’s author Stacey Lantagne of Florence, Wis. will visit Niagara Public Library at 10 a.m. on Tuesday for an Author Talk program in conjunction with storytime. She will read from her “Coping Crew Series” of books — a series that numbers 19-plus books. Each ...
Dear Annie: Let me start off by saying I got married at 19 and divorced at 24. My ex-husband and I had three kids during this time, two females and one male. I got remarried at 26 and had a son. My second husband already had three girls from previous relationships. One of his girls I have never ...
Dear Annie: I am the adult child of divorced parents who divorced 25-plus years ago and both remarried 20 years ago. I have three siblings and three stepsiblings. My mom and her husband are retired, very comfortable moneywise and own several investment properties and “toys.” My dad and ...
Island Resort & Casino Harris (1-877-ISL-SHOW) Headlining at the Island Showroom: Friday and Saturday — Cooper Alan, $33 April 21-22 — 38 Special, $40 May 12 — Free Beer & Hot Wings, $25 per show for $40 for both. May 13 — 1981: The Concert/Simon & Garfunkel ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Maxx Entertainment Complex, 2022 Aragon St., Iron Mountain on Saturday hosts Hip Hop Night featuring The Midwest Playaz, along with Diamond The Kidd and The Young Authors Crew. Music starts at 8 p.m. On Tuesday there will be a Jam Session featuring variety music, ...
NORWAY — The Knight Owl Sports Bar and Grill in Norway will host its annual St. Patty’s Day celebration Saturday with Money 2 Burn. The local classic and modern rock and country band will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Other local entertainment: Blackstone, Iron Mountain — Today, St. ...
ESCANABA — Bay College continues to support local artists in the 2023 concert series, including performances by the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, Phil Lynch, The Slamming Doors, and Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. The next concert is “U.P. Love Letter:” An Evening with Phil Lynch, at 7 ...
NIAGARA, Wis. — We recently returned from a visit to our son’s new home in Queen Creek, Ariz. We had last visited him for Thanksgiving, and this was to be our first escape from our northern winter weather. Little did we know that this first venture from a frosty February in Wisconsin would ...
By JOAN JOUPPI For The Daily News KINGSFORD — Looking over a white landscape that has surrounded us for months, rumor has it that green grass is trying desperately to peek through. Could it be spring? The calendar says it should be. Birds are flocking to feeders, the sun is incrementally ...
By JOAN JOUPPI For The Daily News Kingsford — There was no tornado, hurricane or flood — just snow, snow and more snow. Snow can be shoveled away without too many aftereffects. Sore backs and tired arms will ease up in time. The snow eventually melts away and the sun arrives to shine ...
NIAGARA, Wis. — In keeping with this month’s spring ahead into daylight savings mode, it seems a good time to discuss our dreams and what they may be telling us. While dream analysis and interpretation is an imperfect science, paying attention to those dreams that occur frequently may give ...
It is with great pride that Timothy and Lynn Gussert of Kingsford and Paul and Fonda Larson of Appleton, Wis., announce the upcoming wedding of their children, Katelyn Gussert and Spencer Larson. Spencer was born and raised in Appleton. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, ...
SAGOLA — Samantha Berdinner and Nicholas Harvath were united in marriage on Sept. 3, 2022, at Nick’s grandparents’ home, Gary and Karolyn Gardner, with Don Koerner, brother-in-law of the couple, officiating. A reception followed the ceremony at Keyes Peak Lodge in Florence, Wis., ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Many of the cast members from “The Last Alaskans” reality television series will attend the National Trappers Association Convention at the U.P. State Fairgrounds in Escanaba this summer, organizers announced. Also expected are Marty Meierotto and his family from ...
NORWAY — American Legion Post 145 will serve an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. The menu will include scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes, French toast, hashbrown potatoes, toast, coffee, milk, juice and fruit salad. Cost is $9 per person, with children ages ...
Norway High School Leo Club created homemade valentines for the Upper Peninsula Kids With Cancer to brighten their day. The club, under adviser Tami Slagle, is the student division of the Vulcan-Norway-Loretto Lions Club. Displaying cards, from left, are Sarah Tinkey, Sage Groeneveld, Tonye ...
SAGOLA — Sagola Township Sportsmen’s Club will host a gun and knife show Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Sawyer Lake clubhouse north of Channing. Tables are available for rent at $25 each. Contact Tony Erickson at 906-396-1119 or tonyerickson26@msn.com. Hours are 3 p.m. ...
NORWAY — Each Friday, Grace United Methodist Church of Norway provides 62 local students with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food for the weekend. Grace United Lunch Packs, or GULP, was established in 2018 by Norma Raboin, following a TV story about the 31 Backpacks program in Houghton. She ...
NORWAY — Nativity scenes are a common sight during the holidays — as they symbolize the reason for the celebration. These sets of figures, depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph, can be found in all shapes, sizes and materials. Grace United Methodist Church of Norway is now working to ...
On Dec. 11, Immaculate Conception Parish had its ninth Community Fellowship Breakfast and Christmas Bake Sale, with proceeds donated to the Iron Mountain St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry. Shown is Anthony Carobine, chair, presenting a $4,824.42 donation to Mary Gagala, president of the Iron ...
KINGSFORD — National recording artist Cloverton will be performing a Christmas Concert at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Kingsford at 7 p.m. on Friday. The Manhattan, Kan.-based band propelled onto the Christmas music scene in 2011 as the first ever “Rock the Camp” contest winners ...
Zoologist Bill Schutt and archaeologist J. R. Finch have written the final chapter in their trilogy, beginning with “The Himalayan Codex” and “Hell’s Gate” closing with the exciting finale “The Darwin Strain.” (William Morrow, 412 pages) Set in the post-World War II era, ...
Gabriel Allon, Israel’s own version of master spy James Bond, has another daring mission in Daniel Silva’s latest spy thriller “The New Girl.” (Harper/475 pages) A young girl who had been attending the exclusive International School of Geneva is kidnapped. But the 12-year-old child is ...
Edgar Award-nominated author Alison Gaylin has a twisted tale of deadly family secrets in “Never Look Back.” (William Morrow, 339 pages) In the 1970s, a teenage couple, April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy, went on a killing spree in Southern California similar to the murders committed by ...
The team of Margaret Murphy and Helen Pepper, writing as Ashley Dyer, have their second crime novel - “The Cutting Room.” (William Morrow, 436 pages). Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver are back after their debut in "Splinter in the Blood." British television viewers are captivated ...