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KHS scholarship checks available

KINGSFORD — Kingsford High School has set the schedule for scholarship recipients to pick up their checks at the high school. Scholarship checks can be picked up during these days/hours — — Monday through Thursday: 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2:30 p.m. (Offices are closed at noon for ...

Hydraulic Falls Road reopened to traffic

IRON MOUNTAIN — Hydraulic Falls Road is now open to traffic, according to the Dickinson County Road Commission. A road closure was needed for guardrail installation.

Record-breaking scholarship season for M&M Foundation

MENOMINEE — The M&M Area Community Foundation has completed its 2025–2026 scholarship season, awarding 79 scholarships totaling $195,045 to students attending 14 schools across Marinette, Menominee and Oconto counties — the foundation’s most successful scholarship year to date, and ...

Western Pa. developed practices that revolutionized US energy extraction

(Editor’s note: America would not be the nation it is today without its vast stores of natural resources. But those resources would have done us little good without individuals and companies willing to take risks. Much of that happened in Western Pennsylvania, where leading developments in ...

Michigan prisons leader defends oversight after three women die

The embattled director of the Michigan Department of Corrections is defending conditions inside the state prisons. Heidi Washington, who is facing calls for removal over treatment of female prisoners, on Thursday wrote a letter to U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell claiming that her department “has ...