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Area veterans get holiday food baskets

ESCANABA — The Community Foundation for Delta County has been distributing holiday food baskets to needy Delta County Veterans for years and collaborated with the Seventh Day Adventist Food Pantry this year to be able to serve more Delta County veterans with holiday food baskets. “I was excited when the Community Foundation for Delta County called me regarding collaborating to help distribute veteran holiday food baskets. They have always showed how much they care about veterans, and the community in a whole, and I had no doubt this was going to be a great thing,” said ...

An evening with the ARTIST

NORWAY — The Jake Menghini Museum of Norway will present “World War II Memoirs and An Evening with the Artist” on Saturday. The fundraiser for the museum’s Oral History Project will run from 7 to 9 p.m. at the museum at 105 Odill Drive, just off U.S. 2 in Norway. Local renowned ...

DNR offers best practices for firearm season

From Escanaba Daily Press staff LANSING — Firearm deer hunting season is right around the corner, and many hunters are busy scouting land, watching trail cameras and preparing equipment for opening day. To ensure a safe season, Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers are sharing best practices and tips to avoid the most common violations and mistakes they see every year. Here are 10 best practices for hunters to remember: ≤ Properly tag your deer Before field-dressing or moving a deer, kill tags must be filled out (including the month and date the deer ...

Elephant 6 co-founder, MTU prof shares story at 41 North

HOUGHTON — The poster for “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.” lists a few key bands from the indie rock collective — Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power and Of Montreal. But alongside them, there’s also a “Sgt. Pepper”-ish gallery of dozens ...

It’s all ‘Wright’

HOUGHTON — A new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw pays tribute to the artist behind a series of large-scale community art projects in the Copper Country and beyond. Friends from the community shared stories about Mary Biekkola Wright at a reception for the new exhibit Thursday night. Some of the materials were on loan from the Beaumier Center of Northern Michigan University, which held a retrospective of her work over the summer. The Carnegie exhibit, retitled “Mary Wright in the Keweenaw,” adds pieces from some of the many projects Wright did locally, whether on ...

Group: Gladstone library needs more funding

GLADSTONE — Friends of the Gladstone Library are kicking off their 2023 Membership and Donation Drive. The service area of the library includes Brampton Township, the city of Gladstone, Escanaba Township, and Masonville Township. This year’s drive is especially imperative as the library is facing some tough decisions because of funding shortages. The Gladstone Library was established in 1913 and became a school district public library in 1923 when the city book collection and the school book collection were combined. Since then, the library has been and remains an integral part of ...