ESCANABA — Escanaba Junior and Senior High School art teacher Cathy Uhazie has been leading her students through muraling projects for 18 years. Over the past three years, Uhazie’s students have painted nine murals throughout the school. Mural topics relate to school activities, groups and ...
LANSING — Michigan Department of Transportation snowplows now will have a special and personal touch on the department’s interactive Mi Drive map. Inspired in part by TrafficScotland.org, MDOT has started giving snowplows unique and creative names on the Mi Drive map. Current names include Plowasaurus Rex, Sir Salts-A-Lot and Snowboni, and were chosen from hundreds of public offerings. Yes, Plowy McPlowface is on the list. Among the submissions were three special names: Tiger, Chill Bill and Frosty, all from Roxane Gilbert’s fifth-grade students at Fair Plain East Elementary ...
Broken icicle fragments were scattered across the frozen ground, glinting in the winter sunshine. The remaining ice on my roof was melting, falling almost rhythmically into a pool near the icicle fragments. This moment seemed to sum up the unusually gentle weather that’s taken place this month. It’s been so unlike my past experiences of the Upper Peninsula in January. There’s been a near absence of howling winds, sub-zero temperatures and massive snowbanks this month. It’s mainly been gentle, mild days in the 30-degree range, melting snow and ice, light winds, and even some ...
MUNISING — Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has a new trail for snowshoe users. The trail has been a year in the making, and travels through a variety of habitats of beech, maple and conifer forests. The trail offers visitors a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the quiet and solitude of the ...
MARQUETTE — For those who want to get outdoors and enjoy a little history on the way, “A Walk on the Snow and Back in Time” will be offered at 6 p.m. Wednesday by the Marquette Regional History Center. The public is invited to join in a snowshoe hike with Dr. Jacquie Medina, professor ...
Dysania: The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. “On Mondays, my dysania can cause me to reach for the snooze alarm upward of five times.” This little-used word and fitting usage example resonated with me as soon as I read it on the Wayne State University Word Warriors’ list of the top 10 forgotten words that we should bring back in 2021. It didn’t hurt that I was reading through the list on the first Monday morning of this year as I sipped my coffee and hoped I’d eventually feel a little bit more awake. Dysania is a word you don’t hear often. But ...
