WASHINGTON — With the memory of the pandemic’s toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people. Advocates hope the estimated $12.7 billion will ...
MARQUETTE — In the course of a single lifetime, we have gone from one of the most age-integrated nations on earth to one defined by generational separation. Then, the vital social distancing of the past year severed the few cross-generational interactions that remained. A project conceived ...
LANSING — With the recent introduction of a health care bill in the Legislature and a continued national discussion, the concept of “Medicare for All” remains promoted by progressives as a way to deal with a health system that some believe is inherently flawed. The term “Medicare for ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Regional History Center presents the Special Exhibit: “The Story Behind Their Clothes” starting April 26 and continuing to Jan. 8. What do Yoopers wear? Yoopers have been pioneers, Victorian businessmen, farming women, immigrant families, Northern students and more. These clothes represent some of the many ordinary people who helped shape our community over the last 170 years. This exhibit draws from the MRHC’s extensive collection of clothing and accessories from the fashionable to the everyday. Items seldom displayed include handmade deerskin ...
MARQUETTE — Trained mediators can volunteer at the Marquette Alger Resolution Services, the local community dispute resolution service. MARS provides peaceful dispute resolution for all types of matters in Marquette and Alger counties. Many of the disputes we help with are parenting time, neighborhood disputes, general civil, child protection, guardianship of children and adults, relationships and school-related issues. Volunteers provide mediation and community dispute resolution regardless of income level. Mediation services are an accessible program for everyone. Goals include ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — For 35 years, Dee Dee Hawk was solving unusual mysteries, like whether a captured grizzly bear was guilty of attacking a human. Sometimes using only scraps of evidence, she helped put bad guys behind bars and unraveled wildlife-related whodunits when there were no ...
