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Scholarship to support skilled trades students

ESCANABA — The Bay College Foundation has established the Don Mlostek Memorial Scholarship, created to honor the life, service and community commitment of Donald “Don” Mlostek. The scholarship will be awarded annually, beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year, to a Bay College student ...

USDA Rural Development event Tuesday in Marquette

MARQUETTE — U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Michigan State Director Dom Restuccia and U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement Senior Advisor Jason Allen will attend a community engagement event Tuesday in Marquette. The Upper Peninsula ...

Reaching deepest Superior for the first time in 40 years

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 tax rate to stay flat for 2026

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 ...

Street closures OK’d for IM Gus Macker

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 ...

Sault Ste. Marie shooting incident leaves one dead

SAULT STE. MARIE — An apparent domestic dispute in Sault Ste. Marie on Thursday left one person dead and a second injured from flying glass, police said. Officers were called about 1:40 p.m. Thursday to a residence on Young Street on reports of multiple gunshots fired, according to the Sault ...