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IM accepts Five Star’s bid for water service line project

IRON MOUNTAIN — A Wisconsin contractor has been selected to perform a water service line project starting this fall in Iron Mountain — possibly the final piece in meeting a state requirement to replace all lines that contain lead. The city council Wednesday accepted an engineer’s ...

Half of deer ticks tested by Wisconsin researchers had Lyme-causing bacteria

A project studying ticks collected from across the state found that just over half of the tested deer ticks had the bacteria causing Lyme disease. Over the past two years, people have mailed in nearly 12,500 ticks from Wisconsin and the surrounding region to Marshfield Clinic Research ...

Property tax elimination proposal fails to make Michigan ballot — again

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — AxMITax, a group seeking to abolish all property taxes in Michigan, once again does not have enough valid voter signatures to ...

Suspect dead after opening fire near White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month. The law ...

No Daily News on Monday holiday

IRON MOUNTAIN — With no postal delivery on the Memorial Day holiday, The Daily News will not publish a newspaper Monday. Monday’s comics, crossword puzzle and horoscopes are on page A-6 of today’s edition. The Daily News office in downtown Iron Mountain will not be open Monday and ...

A case against grape jelly ‘For the Birds’

Another year has brought another online debate — and warnings — about providing grape jelly for the orioles. But there’s a new wrinkle I recently learned that I feel compelled to pass along. In the past I’ve reprinted information about feeding jelly from an interview I had in 2019 ...