IRON MOUNTAIN — Dust off the polka shoes, brush up on your German and get ready to prost. The Iron Mountain Downtown Development Authority will host its 12th-annual Oktoberfest from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the downtown stage parking lot at the intersection of Iron Mountain ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Iron Mountain School Board has authorized applying to start a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps — JROTC — program at Iron Mountain. Superintendent Jerry Sardina said one of the teachers approached him with the idea. The program would be offered as an elective for credits at a future date. JROTC is a federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces. Classes are taught at secondary schools by retired military officers and non-commissioned officers, with half the salary for an instructor paid by military. The military would also provide all ...
LANSING – Pending legislation would allow gray wolf hunting and trapping if the federal government takes the animals off the Endangered Species List. The possibility raises concerns among environmentalists that removing wolves from federal protection could set the species back and ...
(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Michigan’s workforce training program spent over $59 million to reimburse employers for on-the-job training, rather than fund education to ...
Voting in Wisconsin’s midterm elections has officially begun. Local clerks across the state were required to send absentee ballots to voters with valid requests already on file by Thursday. Data from the Wisconsin Elections Commission shows that 299,849 absentee ballots have already ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Lace up, hit the course and celebrate at one of the Upper Peninsula’s most scenic and community-driven races. The 14th-annual Run Iron Mountain returns Saturday, Sept. 26, taking runners from downtown Iron Mountain through the scenic roads and trails of Dickinson ...
