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Artists sought to create mural at Bates Hall

BATES TOWNSHIP — The Bates Hall Preservation Society is conducting a contest to select an Iron County resident artist to paint an original mural highlighting the township’s farming, logging and mining history. The painting will be about 28-by-5-feet on the north inside wall at 3070 E. ...

Protests intensify in LA after National Guard deployment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire as law enforcement used ...

Mass timber used to construct DNR building

By BUD SARGENT Mining Journal Managing Editor MARQUETTE — A bit of history was made recently east of Marquette in the Luce County village of Newberry. In April, the people responsible for designing and constructing the building that houses the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...

Boy, 12, dies after being struck by vehicle in Florence County

AURORA, Wis. – A 12-year-old boy died Monday evening after being struck by a vehicle that also hit a utility pole, causing a power outage in the Town of Aurora in eastern Florence County. Florence County Dispatch received multiple 911 calls at 6:16 p.m. Monday that a vehicle had collided ...

IR Knights clean up

he Iron River Knights Of Columbus, Council 2300 recently completed their spring annual roadside cleanup. They began working at the Ice Lake/U.S. 2 intersection and ended at the Bates-Amasa/U.S. 2 intersection. Many bags of trash were collected. From left, volunteering were future Knight Jim ...

Second measles case in Marquette County, third in UP reported

MARQUETTE — A second case of measles has been reported in Marquette County, making it the third overall in the Upper Peninsula, according to the Marquette County Health Department. The infected person was at these Marquette locations where potentially others were infected, the health ...