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Upcoming activities at your library

These are activities scheduled at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette through Thursday: • Art with Ella — 1-3 p.m. today, at the library’s Great Room. Join NMU art education major Ella and create art! Kids of all ages are welcome; techniques used will be adaptable for kids of ...

State police in U.P. have origins in World War I, miners’ unrest

The caption under a photo that appeared in The Mining Journal recently of the Michigan State Police caught my eye.  Several state police troopers stand with their patrol car on a rural Upper Peninsula road. This picture was actually taken at the west end of Iron Street in Negaunee, where ...

MSU, Glanbia collaborate to protect environment at dairy processor

ST. JOHNS — Processing billions of pounds of milk each year leaves little margin for error. At MWC, a state-of-the-art cheese and whey protein manufacturing facility in St. Johns, even minor disruptions in wastewater treatment can threaten production, environmental compliance and the ...

NASA clears Artemis for launch to moon in April

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA cleared its moon rocket on Thursday for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. The 322-foot rocket will roll out of the hangar and back to the pad next week at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, leading to a launch attempt ...

The long and winding roads to Alaska, part 2

Picking up on last week’s part of my family’s trip to Alaska: Finally, we came into the city, that being Minneapolis. We pulled up to our hotel. It was pretty easy to picture in your brain. It had four or five floors. It was a Hampton Inn Suites. We unloaded the car and headed over to ...

Study: Spacecraft impact changed asteroid’s orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday. It's the first time that a celestial body's orbit ...