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Can’t keep everyone happy for the holidays

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for six years, and every holiday now feels less like a celebration and more like a negotiation. My family lives about an hour away. My parents host a big Thanksgiving and Christmas every year with my siblings, nieces, nephews and all the ...

Upcoming events at Crystal Falls library

CRYSTAL FALLS — For the entire month of October, the Crystal Falls District Community Library will offer fee amnesty to all card holders. Any patron who has any overdue fees with the library will be forgiven. The library will also accept canned goods in payment for lost items. Library officials hope to encourage patrons to visit the library and feel welcome to participate in all it has to offer. Along with forgiving fees, the library will be permanently adjusting borrowing allowance times on items checked out from the library. Books, audiobooks and CDs will now be due one ...

Today's Birthdays

Oct. 13, 2026 Sue Champeau, Niagara, Wis. Becky Corey, Iron Mountain Nikki Sanicki, Niagara

Store gummy vitamins upside down

Dear Heloise: Do your gummy vitamins, supplements and the like stick to the bottom of their jars? Is it hard to dig them out? Let their stickiness and gravity work for you by storing the jars upside down! My wife and I faithfully read your column in the Ventura County Star. — George V., in ...

Post 50 to host cribbage tournament Saturday

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Uren-Cooper-Johnson American Legion Post 50 of Iron Mountain will host a monthly cribbage tournament starting at 1 p.m. Saturday at the hall. Cost is $20 per team, or 25 cents for a 19 hand. The post plans to have cribbage tournaments every third Saturday of each month. The post is at 916 River Ave. in Iron Mountain.

Kingsford High School Class of 1968 celebrates its 58th reunion

KINGSFORD — The Kingsford High School Class of 1968 celebrated its 58th reunion on Sept 11-12. A class mixer on Friday night in the Antoine Room at Recreation Lanes began with Pam King welcoming all and thanking them for joining in this special time together and noted those will be missed ...