MARQUETTE — Residents throughout Michigan are invited to join in reading and discussing “The Women of the Copper Country,” Mary Doria Russell’s account of 25-year-old Annie Clements as she stood up for the miners and their families during the 1913 copper strike. The book is ...

Reader Joe Marchisotta of Wetmore submitted this photo he took of the northern lights over Sand Point Beach in Munising around 11:30 p.m. March 13. Did you take a great shot of the sunset over Teal Lake? Or did you happen to snap a captivating image of wildlife? The Mining Journal is accepting ...

For the most part, you’re supposed to get better at some things as you age. The first time I rode a two-wheeled bicycle, I made my inaugural left-hand turn onto a neighbor’s driveway. It didn’t go well. I fell, and then I cried. Fortunately, I now can ride straight and make turns on a ...

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. — Langston Hughes A little bit of rain has come again to the Upper Peninsula, washing away more remnants of a Winter season hardly experienced. The moisture dampened the ...

This past year, I have written a lot about how much plans have changed and had to be re-molded because of the pandemic. On February 27th, I turned 16 -years- old. Words cannot explain how happy I was to no longer be 15, because less than three weeks after my 15th birthday, Covid hit, so this ...

“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” — Jim Rohn   Spring winds have begun delivering the gifts of the season to the Upper Peninsula. In an unusual spring prelude, parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and the Lower Peninsula have ...