For 20 years, Shawn Sitar has studied a part of Lake Superior he has never seen. Sitar, a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, studies fish at the deepest spot on the largest freshwater lake on earth. It’s an area known as Superior Maximus, with ...
KINGSFORD — There will be little change in the millage rate to support city government under a budget approved this week by Kingsford City Council. The operating millage will dip to 17.8 mills, or $17.80 cents per $1,000 of taxable value, down 20 cents from the current 18 mills. The fire ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Street closures for Iron Mountain’s Gus Macker tournament will depart slightly from previous years as the Dream Court will move off Carpenter Avenue to Hughitt Street just north of the Imagination Factory Community Center. As approved by the city council earlier, Carpenter ...
The watch continues on whether Six Mile Lake’s loon pair will successfully hatch chicks this summer. A loon was still on nest Friday, roughly two weeks since I’d spotted one among the tall grasses and other vegetation in a narrow side pool where the lake flows into Six Mile Creek. While ...
(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — A split Michigan Senate on Wednesday passed legislation requiring the state Treasury to create automatic retirement savings plans for ...
MARQUETTE — Two upcoming American Red Cross blood drives have been set for Kingsford, with others in Florence, Wis., and Powers. The first will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church, 395 Hamilton Ave., and the second will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at ...