IRON MOUNTAIN — Senior Crafting Connections is partnering with the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center for a special Cards of Hope event from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Dickinson County Library. The event will bring people of all ages together to create handmade cards with messages of ...
KINGSFORD — Richard Berlinski, Alvin “Dutch” Cummings and Debbie Poulson will be the third class of inductees into the Breitung Township Schools Achievement Hall of Fame, district officials announced. They will be inducted during a luncheon Friday, Oct. 9, with a social time beginning at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at noon at Pine Grove Country Club in Iron Mountain. Reservations are due by Friday. To reserve a ticket, contact the school. Cost is $15 to cover the lunch.
MENOMINEE — The Communities that Care Coalition of Marinette and Menominee Counties, under the Menominee County Intermediate School District Prevention Services, has been selected to receive a $125,000 federal grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. This award marks the coalition’s sixth year of DFC funding, after experiencing a lapse in funding last fiscal year after ONDCP required a recompete of all awards to ensure applicant compliance with the administration’s executive orders and priorities. This ...
IRON RIVER — The Iron River area will have two events Saturday for the public to enjoy: the Apple Festival & Craft and Flea Market at Beechwood Hall, followed by Harvest & Haunt in downtown Iron River. The 14th-annual Apple Festival & Craft and Flea Market will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...
KINGSFORD — A change in the user’s agreement at Commemorative Field will allow groups that reserve the soccer complex to pay with “sweat equity” instead of a $50 fee. As approved Monday by the Kingsford City Council, the sweat equity could be applied at Commemorative Field or at a ...
MENOMINEE — An Iron Mountain man has been sentenced to prison after being convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under 13 years old. Blaine William Smeester, 28, was sentenced to eight to 15 years in prison Sept. 4 in the Menominee County 41st Circuit Court ...
