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Funday event to celebrate and make final push on playground

IRON MOUNTAIN — In celebration of the progress made on its “Everyone Plays!” project, Lake Antoine Park Partners will host a Sunday Funday from 1 to 4 p.m. July 19 at the beachfront playground. “We want to recognize what we have accomplished with our awesome community,” said LAPP ...

Summer forecast is ‘normal’ as hottest days lie ahead

IRON MOUNTAIN — The National Weather Service has a neutral outlook on temperatures in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin for the rest of summer, but slightly favors below-normal rainfall. For the near term, extreme heat is expected next week, with highs into the upper 90s on ...

Isle Royale park closes campground due to wolves

Wolves that steal backpacks and enter tents have prompted officials at Isle Royale National Park to temporarily close one of the park’s 36 campgrounds. The park said in a news release Thursday that the closure will run through July 31. The closure affects individual tent and group campsites ...

Northwoods notebook: Life cycles through a too-fast summer

It’s already midsummer. One of the few drawbacks of living in the Northwoods is summer seems all too fleeting, the June frenzy of nesting and births quickly passing by July. Yet a few creatures still are looking to create another generation while the time is ripe. Some are on a second ...

Whitmer vetoes Democratic bills that Michigan House had blocked

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday vetoed nine long-stalled bills, just hours after a Michigan Supreme Court decision ...