MARQUETTE — Little hands can produce melodious sounds in one quick, easy workshop. That swift learning was on display Wednesday afternoon at the Peter White Public Library during the “Rock the Dulcimer” workshops held for youths ages 6-7, and 8 and up. There also was a morning workshop ...

What fictional place would you most like to go to?

ISHPEMING — They weren’t aiming to be Jimi Hendrix, or even Don Ho for that matter. They just wanted to learn a few notes and chords. And that they did Thursday afternoon at the Children’s Beginning Ukulele Workshop at the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library. Teaching the workshop ...

MARQUETTE — Most people won’t become professional chefs, but they still need to eat, and unless they have the means to eat out all the time, that means learning to cook. Discovering the basics of cooking was the goal of Thursday’s Culinary Cuisine camp, one of several Career ...

Anja mcbride, 13 Phil Niemisto was someone who had the very special ability to make everyone smile. I would be walking downtown with my mother and I would see him washing windows or tending to his garden in the pocket park, and I would say hello to him and we would stop and talk for a while. ...

MARQUETTE — Sally Davis, president of the Rotary Club of Marquette, was worried there wouldn’t be enough volunteers to spread the huge pile of wood chips at the Lions Field Recreation Area. She needn’t have worried. Members of that rotary club, as well as the Marquette West Rotary ...

By VALERIE WELLS Herald & Review AP Member Exchange DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — City librarian Rick Meyer is a self-described “numbers guy,” so when he came to the staff’s retirement gathering for children’s librarian Katie Gross, he came armed with a few statistics. “Because ...

If you could ask your pet one question, what would you ask it?

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN The deep flavor and creamy texture of Boston baked beans is the product of simple, yet judiciously chosen ingredients and slow_very slow_cooking. It seemed a natural recipe to adapt to the slow cooker and, given our location, we were under pressure to get this ...

MARQUETTE — Tuning forks and thunder machines can interest even very young kids, and that interest was on display Wednesday during the Peter White Public Library-sponsored event, “Sounds All Around.” The Michigan Science Center, located in Detroit, put on the program at the Westwood ...

If you could be any animal in the world, what would it be?

I recently moved to Marquette from Banner Elk, North Carolina. In North Carolina, I was with a group of kids who showed me skateboarding. After my friend gave me a skateboard, I started skating all the time. I started progressing every day I skated, but soon after that, I found out that our ...

MARQUETTE — Should a peacock grouper or unicornfish be used in an aquaponics project? That was a discussion that took place among several participants in a Tuesday session of the second Reimagine STEM Summer Youth Academy at Northern Michigan University. STEM stands for Science, ...

bodhi white, 13 I wrote a Lions’ season preview at the end of last summer, so now I will do a Lions’ season in review. In my column last year, I predicted the Lions would go 10-6 (they went 9-7), and then I predicted that the Lions would make the playoffs. They missed the playoffs by one ...

I am a community member and a sophomore at MSHS here in Marquette. I recently heard that there was a plan to build on the Noquemanon Trail Network’s South Trails. This was devastating news to hear. These trails have been such a big part of my family and my childhood. When I was younger my ...

MARQUETTE — Are all YMCAs in the state of Michigan the same? One father-and-son duo might be able to tell you soon. Alan Stokes, who lives with his son, Jonathan, 13, in Lansing, are visiting every YMCA in the state. The boy is autistic, but that didn’t keep him from frolicking around a ...

What are some small things that make your day better?

MARQUETTE — The long, convoluted tale of why the Upper Peninsula isn’t a part of Wisconsin is the focus of Grace Holmgren’s project for the National History Day Contest, which gets underway this week in Maryland. The eighth-grader attends Bayshore Community Academy in Oconto, ...

By ROB EARNSHAW The (Northwest Indiana) Times AP Member Exchange CEDAR LAKE, Ind. — What started with a pot of chili for a dozen homeless people on Lower Wacker Drive has mushroomed into an effort to feed more than 300, thanks to the generosity of a 10-year-old boy and his family. He ...

In ballet we work on our splits and I can do two types: right leg in front and center splits. I was able to do center splits awhile ago and now can go into oversplits. Oversplits is where you get into the splits and put something under your foot so one foot is raised and you are higher above ...