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Cemetery Walk set for Thursday in Marquette

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Regional History Center will host the 21st-annual Cemetery Walk on Thursday, featuring “WWII Memories,” where they will recognize both military and civilian heroes buried at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. At 1 p.m. Eastern time, attendees can take a self-guided ...

Hours for Bay buildings changed for summer

ESCANABA/IRON MOUNTAIN — Bay College building hours have been modified for the summer. Bay College employees will work from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. local time Monday through Thursday. The college’s building hours during the summer through July 26, will be Monday through Thursday from 7 ...

Norway’s ‘Living Wax Museum’ to spotlight local sports legends

NORWAY — History and hometown pride will come alive Thursday at the Jake Menghini Museum in Norway, as fourth-grade students from Norway Elementary School transform into some of Dickinson County’s most memorable figures for the fifth-annual “Living Wax Museum.” This year, the Partners ...

At least 1 dead, 9 others missing at pulp and paper mill

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said. Another nine ...

‘All aboard!’

(Editor’s note: The Daily News, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in building America. For this week’s “America at 250” story, see page ...