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St. Vincent de Paul Pantry donation

The Dickinson County Democratic Party donated more than $1,800 to the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Iron Mountain earlier this month. St. Vincent de Paul serves all of Dickinson County. Mary Gagala, president of the St. Vincent de Paul, said 90 people applied for Thanksgiving meals last ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...