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Engineering OK’d for IM lead service line replacements

IRON MOUNTAIN — A local firm will be contracted at a cost not to exceed $638,865 to provide engineering services for a $5 million project set to begin next year to replace about 400 lead service lines in Iron Mountain. A proposal from Coleman Engineering was approved Monday by the city ...

Kingsford trims engineering fees on water project

KINGSFORD — Kingsford will save some money on a planned water service line replacement project. The city has negotiated with GEI Consultants for a savings of $97,998 by having qualified city public works employees do daily required inspections. This would bring GEI Consultants’ ...

Bay graduates eight new medical first responders

ESCANABA – Eight students recently graduated from the Emergency Medical Responder class that took place from Sept. 3 to Nov. 1 at the Escanaba Campus. Emergency Medical Responders, known as Medical First Responders in Michigan, have been around for many years. The purpose of MFRs is to ...

Michigan gun hunters have taken more than 50K deer

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Michigan hunters have already passed the 150,000 deer mark this fall, including more than 50,000 taken since opening weekend of the regular ...

Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in lake

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Wednesday that archaeologists have mapped the ...