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$135M to expand before-school, after-school, summer learning

MARQUETTE – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential has announced $135 million in available funding—nearly double the previous year’s investment—for the 2026-27 Out-of-School Time Grant Program and launched a series of statewide information sessions to help eligible organizations learn about the grant opportunity and prepare to apply. Michigan’s OST Grant provides support for high-quality before-school, after-school and summer learning opportunities for children and youth in grades K-12. During the 2025-26 grant cycle, MiLEAP awarded more ...

WIC participants now able to use benefits online at Meijer stores

MARQUETTE – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has announced that families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children are now able to shop with their WIC benefits online at Meijer stores. “WIC beneficiaries were already able to use their WIC cards for in-store shopping at Meijer and offering online shopping will make it even easier for families to buy healthy foods,” said Amy Epkey, MDHHS acting director. “MDHHS is committed to helping residents put food on the table for their families.” Online shopping ...

UP Notable Book Club presents Q&A with Mikel B. Classen

CRYSTAL FALLS — The Upper Peninsula Notable Book Club: The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 61st event via Zoom is with Mikel B. Classen, "The Yooper History Hunter," "Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates" contains dozens of stories of robbery, kidnapping, and mayhem. Each story is well documented by newspaper accounts, meticulously restored photos and lithographs, and gripping first-person diaries recorded a hundred ...

Negaunee City Band to play final concert of summer season

NEGAUNEE — For the final concert of the summer, the Negaunee City Band will reprise the most popular numbers played during the season, as selected by the audience and the band. The concert is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Outdoor Performing Arts Center at the east end of Iron Street. Everyone likes medleys, from Broadway shows, movies, and popular groups such as Journey. Leading the way is “The Best of Journey,” a vital part of the music scene in the 1980s, with songs such as “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” “Open Arms,” ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE — City employees and labor sympathizers marched around city hall Monday, protesting an apparently bitter contract dispute between city management and three employee bargaining units. Between 300 and 400 picketers ringed the block around city hall and the police station. Labor and management are far apart on several issues, including the size of wage increase, the benefits package and contract language, said Larry Linna, an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees spokesman. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — Students attending the 1967 summer ...

At 103, retired MDOTer Bauer looks back

SENEY — Driving along what’s considered one of the most boring roads in Michigan, you might speed right past a roadside landmark dedicated to a very interesting man. Near the east end of the 25-mile arrow-straight section of M-28 in the middle of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known as the ...