Check out what PWPL book groups have been reading over the last year. Book descriptions in this article are adapted from publishers’ summaries and library catalog records. All Booked Up: “God of the Woods” by Liz Moore (FIC MOORE) —in the early morning, August 1975: a camp ...
WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters rallied Friday on the National Mall in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that civil rights groups have condemned as detrimental to Black ...
IRONWOOD — The advocacy group Protect the Porkies has made a statement regarding the $50 million grant Highland Copper recently received from the Michigan Strategic Fund: “On (Tuesday), the Michigan Strategic Fund — a board of unelected businesspeople — voted to approve the use of 50 million taxpayer dollars to advance the Copperwood Mine,” read their statement. “The funding had been three times denied through plain old democracy, so this fourth time the MSF employed a deceptive backdoor strategy to bypass votes from elected officials by allocating left-over funds from ...
MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter has announced the date for its 21st annual Strut Your Mutt fundraiser. The walk will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3 at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette, with registration beginning at 9 a.m. The cost to register is $20 per ...
Today is Saturday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2026. There are 124 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in southeast Louisiana, breaching levees and spurring floods that devastated New Orleans. Katrina caused nearly 1,400 ...
