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Range Financial Corporation and Range Bank announce board member changes

MARQUETTE — Range Financial Corporation — the holding company for Range Bank — and Range Bank announces the retirement of Janet Kuru and the appointment of Kurt Voss to both organizations’ board of directors. Kuru retired from the board after a 55-year career with Range Financial ...

Despite supply issues and omicron variant, holiday sales rise 8.5%

Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure. Mastercard Spending Pulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including ...

Postal hike doesn’t stop catalogers from stuffing consumer mailboxes

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A big postal rate increase over the summer hasn’t stopped catalog retailers from stuffing mailboxes this holiday season. The U.S. Postal Service says more than 300 million catalogs flooded into people’s mailboxes last month, and the overall number of catalogs has ...

Epps Apothecary moves to new, larger location

MARQUETTE — The Lake Superior Community Partnership recently assisted Epps Apothecary with a ribbon cutting to celebrate its move to a new, larger location at 110 N. Third Street in Marquette. “I opened Epps Apothecary last year, in between the lockdowns, because I wanted to do ...