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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 ...

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 ...

Munising man killed in Delta County crash

MASONVILLE — A Munising man is dead after a two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon in Masonville Township. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Gladstone Post were called about 3:55 p.m. to County Road 511, where a preliminary investigation indicated a commercial delivery truck had stopped at ...

English art projects

KINGSFORD — Colleen Driscoll’s ninth-grade English classes at Kingsford High School incorporate art into the curriculum, since art and literature/analysis are both creative processes. Art completed during the first quarter included a Welcome One-Pager, maps of the island from the short ...

Police: Driver who struck Escanaba mall died on site

ESCANABA — The driver of a pickup truck that crashed into the rear side of Dunham's Sports at the Delta Plaza Mall on Sunday died on site, Escanaba Public Safety revealed Wednesday. The single-vehicle accident happened about 2:46 p.m. Eastern time east of the entrance to L&M Fleet Supply ...

Marquette Regional History Center presents Holiday Open House

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Regional History Center is hosting a gathering of greetings at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at145 W. Spring St., Marquette. This year there will be a reading of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Bruce Closser. Known to most as the poem, “‘Twas ...