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Practice safe holiday decorating

The holidays are supposed to be a time for joy, but they can quickly turn to tragedy without the right precautions. Candles and Christmas lights can start fires. Artificial snow sprays can irritate your lungs. A man in California just died hanging Christmas lights when he threw the lights over a live power line. It’s important to practice safe holiday decorating to make sure your holidays stay merry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission offers the following tips: ∫ If using a real tree, make sure it’s fresh, because dry trees are extremely flammable. If using an artificial ...

Nobody does Christmas like Superiorland

The holiday season is truly and fully in swing. Enough time has passed where we’ve recovered from the Thanksgiving overeating and while our bank accounts may not be as healthy as they were before Black Friday, many of us are enjoying the holiday shopping season. There is much about winter in the Upper Peninsula that isn’t always pleasant: icy roads, driveways that need constant work and car batteries that die at the most inopportune time. While those aspects of winter can spread us Yoopers thin, it is worth it to enjoy the winter wonderland that is Superiorland in Christmastime. ...

Negaunee’s Tinseltown a great family event

One of the Marquette area’s most beloved holiday events, the Tinseltown 2024 holiday celebration, will return to downtown Negaunee from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. This family friendly event will officially kick off the holiday season with activities including a Christmas parade, tree-lighting ceremony, downtown holiday caroling, music, wine tasting at the VFW, hay rides, a craft show, Santa at the Elks and miniature horse rides. Also, this year will feature the all-new Gingerbread Lane attraction — a lighting and gingerbread village display along Rail Street, according to the ...

Long-ago sacrifices helped build nation, must be recalled

Today marks the 83rd anniversary of what is arguably the 20th century’s single-most most significant event, at least as far as the United States is concerned. It was 83 years ago this morning that more than 350 carrier-based warplanes of the Empire of Japan paid an unannounced visit to the U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Several hours later, four battleships had been sunk, four others damaged and an array of other ships damaged or destroyed. More than 2,300 service personnel were killed and another 1,300 wounded. The event plunged America head long into World ...

No easy answers when it comes to social media

Is social media harmful to our youth? Australia sure seems to think so. It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16. Australia’s new law, approved by its Parliament last week, is an attempt to swim against many tides of modern life — formidable forces like technology, marketing, globalization and, of course, the iron will of a teenager. And like efforts of the past to ...

Christmas is coming but still time to shop local merchants

Christmas is about three weeks away and we know there are quite a few people who haven’t yet finished checking off all the names on their holiday shopping lists. We encourage everyone to consider buying local rather than from a faraway online e-shop with express shipping. Those dollars spent locally are a huge boost to the community, giving return in keeping these local shops open and helping to keep your neighbors employed. A study from Michigan State University reports that $73 of every $100 at a local business stays in the community compared to $43 remaining in the area when ...