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Michigan to again offer children free summer food programs

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan children will continue to benefit from free, healthy and nutritious meals during the summer months in 2026, the Michigan Department of Education announced. MDE will offer meals through two programs that are part of the Summer Food Service Program. The first is ...

Meeting Tuesday of the Menominee County Dems

MENOMINEE — Menominee County Democratic Party will meet from 5:30 to 6:50 p.m. Tuesday in the ground-floor meeting room behind the front desk at Spies Public Library, 940 First St. in Menominee. Hors d’oeuvres and socializing will take place starting at 5 p.m. Those who wish to attend ...

Marquette road to be closed for salamander migration

MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette will close a portion of Peter White Drive in Presque Isle Park starting Sunday to facilitate the safe migration of the blue-spotted salamander. The closure occurs in cooperation with the Superior Watershed Partnership and the Northern Michigan University ...

Dickinson road millage renewal to be placed on Aug. 4 ballot

IRON MOUNTAIN — Dickinson County voters will be asked in August to renew a road millage that was first levied in 2012 and last put up for a vote in the March 2020 presidential primary. The county board Monday approved ballot language for a Dickinson County Road Commission property tax levy ...

Enbridge, Line 5 foes argue tunnel plan before Michigan Supreme Court

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) In a packed courtroom in Lansing, lawyers for Enbridge Energy and its critics debated before Michigan’s highest court Wednesday about whether the ...

Marshfield Clinic Foundation chosen to receive local 100-Plus donation

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson County 100-Plus Women Who Care group has selected the Marshfield Clinic Foundation to receive its donation from its first meeting of 2026. The donation, which should be about $17,000, will go toward training at the Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson Regional ...