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No longer at Post

FELCH TOWNSHIP — For more than four decades, Nordic Trading Post made sure the coffee was on at 5 a.m. and the griddle going an hour later. Its oven offered fresh bread and muffins, homemade pasties. Even more, the small restaurant on M-69 provided a place where loggers, truckers, students ...

Cooking Wild Seasonings: A 906 venture

HERMANSVILLE — Cooking Wild Seasonings, an enterprise from 906 Outdoors, creates products meant to accompany the flavors of wild game and freshly-caught fish. Founder Brian Whitens has had a journey with a series of businesses — though they could be viewed as different iterations of the ...

US 2 projects slated by MDOT

Motorists should expect single-lane closures with temporary traffic signals on U.S. 2 as resurfacing projects begin soon in Iron, Dickinson and Menominee counties, the Michigan Department of Transportation said. MDOT is investing about $9.5 million to resurface about 2 miles of U.S. 2 from ...

Michigan Democrats pass budget, omit Whitmer’s sin tax hike

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — The Michigan Senate this week finalized an $88 billion budget plan that failed to include nearly $800 million in “sin taxes” ...

Township and city meetings this week

The Norway Township Planning Commission will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Township Hall in Vulcan. A public hearing has been set on a conditional use permit application. Iron Mountain City Council will meet at 6 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. The agenda includes the budget for a ...

‘Radium Girls’ to be performed at IMHS

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Iron Mountain High School Drama Club will present “Radium Girls” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, in the auditorium. This powerful, moving drama tells the true story of the “shining girls” of the 1920s — young factory workers who fought for justice in ...