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USPC not using TRICO as before

My name is Brian Brouillette and I am the board president (as an unpaid volunteer) of TRICO Opportunities in Kingsford. Our organization works with persons with disabilities within our local communities. We operate a paper and cardboard recycling center as part of our Skill Building Program to assist our program participants in developing work skills with the goal of obtaining jobs in the community. We collect and process recyclable material from local businesses and residents and sell the baled material to help fund our programs and services. For many years, TRICO collected ...

Camp Molinare now a non-profit

The Camp Molinare Board has received notice that its 501(c)(3) application has been approved. The board was surprised how quickly the approval came through. As stated on the letter from the IRS, the effective date of the 501(c)(3) is Dec. 19, 2023, and all donations are now tax deductible to the extent of the law. This is the first step for us to begin looking for donations and grants. Many of us spent memorable time at Camp Molinare. We hope to keep it alive for the next generation. It’s an asset to our community. If you would like to join us in working to save Camp Molinare, an ...

Few thoughts on ‘dictator for a day’

Hello again. I had just a quick thought I wanted to share and hope it makes some of you think long and hard. We have a man running for president who says that he plans to be a “dictator for a day.” Just the first day. I am not a historian but I have read a lot of history and cannot remember anyone who was a “dictator for a day.” But let me expand on that thought just a bit. If that were to happen, if there was a “dictator for a day,” YOU would no longer be self-governing. After nearly 250 years, the experiment of self-governance would be gone on that one day. You and the ...

Bergman blasts USPS for calling off public meeting late

Following the indefinite postponement by the United States Postal Service of the scheduled public input meeting for the mail processing facility review of the Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center in Kingsford, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman penned this letter to USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: “I write to share my deep discontent with the U.S. Postal Service’s recent decision to postpone the scheduled public input meeting on the agency’s mail processing facility review of the Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center, located in Kingsford, Mich. “In the weeks ...

Don’t be ashamed

If you are struggling mentally in life with depression, anxiety, etc. ... please do not be ashamed or afraid to speak about it. To be forthright, if people want to stoop so low to use your problems against you, let them lower themselves to that level. In all honesty, if people use your problems against you they have a lot more severe problem than you will ever have. I just read Elon Musk’s biography and he readily admits for 18 months he battled insanity. He would get so mentally down that he would lay on the floor in his office, and the only way his top administrator could ...

Call for public to speak out against USPS service changes

EDITOR: The United States Postal Service has made changes negatively impacting your mail service throughout the Upper Peninsula and adjoining Wisconsin communities. Your help is needed to demand that service be restored to previous levels. Prior to Jan. 8, 2024, mail from the 498-499 area zip codes was transported at the close of each business day to Kingsford’s Upper Peninsula Mail Processing Center to be processed, shipped to other facilities outside the 498-499 area (outgoing mail to Minnesota, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Lansing, Gaylord). Upper Peninsula mail (Newberry to Ironwood ...