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Get ready to go fishing

By the Michigan Department of Natural Resources It’s time to dust off your fishing gear and get ready to put that new fishing license to good use: trout and the Lower Peninsula inland walleye and northern pike seasons open Saturday. Make plans with your fishing buddies or bring someone new ...

Veterans advocates worry about VA staffing cuts

MARQUETTE — Officials and experts in veteran services say they’re concerned about how staffing cuts in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will affect Michigan veterans, especially those living in rural areas. If the VA proceeds in the next 60 days with its recently announced ...

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There are a total of 83 counties in the state of Michigan. There are only 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula and all but four of them are on Eastern Standard Time, along with the rest of the state. The four counties in the U.P. that are on the Central Time Zone (Wisconsin Time) are Dickinson, Iron, Gogebic, and Menominee. These are the four counties in the Upper Peninsula with their borders directly in contact with the State of Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula has about 30 percent of the total land mass of the State of Michigan, and the population of the U.P. is about 300,000 people, and ...

Health matters

Pain is a common sensation, experienced by most of us at some point in our lives. When the discomfort lasts more than 12 weeks, it is classified as chronic, experienced by about 20 percent of the population. 50 million US citizens live with it…..but how much do we really know about chronic pain? The answer may lie in how well we (don’t) deal with it. Most people when asked will say pain is an undesirable sensation, which is an understandable sentiment. Yet, this is not always the case: pain has numerous functions in the human body. The pain experienced from trauma to our skin is ...