MARQUETTE — Two Books Two Communities of Marquette and Alger counties has named this year’s book selections: “The Lightkeeper’s Daughters,” an adult novel, and “Me and You and the Red Canoe,” a children’s book, both by award-winning Canadian author Jean E. Pendziwol. “The ...

MARQUETTE — A Northern Michigan University alumna and her NMU faculty mentor contributed to a published paper on a recent study of Alaskan brown bears that found significant variations in their gut microbiomes, depending on where they live. The finding advances scientific understanding of ...

MARQUETTE — Listening to bullfrogs in the summertime is like listening to a chorus of guitars being plucked. There’s nothing better than sitting on my parents’ deck in the summer, overlooking our pond and listening to the ensemble of amphibian voices while fireflies dance around my ...

Via Escanaba Daily Press ESCANABA — Bay College has honored Amy Anderson, full-time EMT and paramedic instructor, as one of its recipients of the Outstanding Educator Award sponsored by the Don Johnson Agency/MEEMIC Insurance. To receive consideration for the award, faculty were nominated ...

By Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m looking for some answers or some advice, please. I’m crying out for help, and no one seems to care. Doctors just look at you like you’re crazy, but I feel like our lives are in danger. I have a parasite. My sister has had a parasite in her for a ...

MARQUETTE — The ski lift is one of the only socially acceptable places to talk to strangers. The 10-minute conversations while sitting on freezing metal seats swinging 15 feet above rocky cliffs are my favorite part of the sport. With goggles and scarves covering faces, identities are a ...