GLADSTONE — The Delta County Regional Inclusive Community Coalition (RICC) visited Jones Elementary School to teach the youth about respectability disability awareness. The two-day event included all five third-grade classes at Jones, totaling roughly 125 students. “Respectability is our ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Engineering for $19.3 million in planned Iron Mountain water and sewer improvements will carry a $2.17 million price tag under a proposal the city council approved Monday. Most of the work awarded to Coleman Engineering of Iron Mountain is for designing and bidding a $13.3 ...

HOUGHTON — Bay Ambulance has come close to becoming fully staffed with five local residents of the Baraga and L’Anse completing their paramedic course through the Upper Peninsula Health System’s School of EMT on October 19 to qualify for a state written test. Brandt Tembreull, Samantha ...

LANSING — On Monday, in the 54A District Court in Lansing, Judge Kristen Simmons bound over Heather Lombardini, 47, of Okemos, to stand trial in the 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Lombardini, who was charged in February, was bound over ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton County is starting the search for a new administrator. Ben Larson informed the county board after last week’s meeting he will be leaving the county to take a position with another company. Larson had served as administrator since April 2023. This marked his second ...

ESCANABA — Local School Resource Officers (SROs) want students to feel safe not only in school but also around law enforcement. The schools and county have been preparing should an active shooting occur in any of the county’s schools. Most recently, Gladstone High School served as the ...