Letters should be kept as brief as possible — ideally no more than 250 words — but can be up to about 500 words. The letter must include the writer’s full, legal name, address and telephone number. Letters are to be signed with a single name. Potentially libelous statements and personal ...

If you have been saving the tabs, you can start turning them in. Please look at what you are turning in and no large tabs; they are not aluminum. Ronald McDonald House had two tab tosses this spring. With the tabs they collected — double the price of aluminum on those days — plus the ...

Dickinson County residents had no choice when the Michigan State University Extension and 4-H, both more-than-100-year-old programs, were stripped away by the four new Dickinson County Board members in their very first meeting in January. Since that meeting, county residents have ...

As the son of a Purdue University County Extension Agent and a former member of 4-H, I have more than a passing interest in the $81,000 defunding of the Michigan State University Extension and the 4-H coordinator after Dickinson County Board Chair Dan Harrington called 4-H "a woke, crazy ...

On Tuesday, Dickinson County voters will have the opportunity to renew the Bay College Iron Mountain Campus millage — a renewal, not a new tax — that has supported local students, families and businesses for nearly 20 years. Bay College is more than a campus; it’s an economic engine and ...

Why is there this continuous assault on education? It is being applied at all levels, with President Donald Trump attacking Harvard and Columbia universities, Congress clawing back money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and our own Dickinson Country Board defunding the MSU Extension ...