This year has been a challenge for everyone, but something that has been especially challenging for many students is online schooling. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, school districts worldwide are working to keep students and staff safe while providing quality education. Specific ...
COLUMBUS, Miss.— Sam Shmulsky likes rock — Led Zeppelin, Bush, Oasis and a host of others. The Starkville High senior has been playing guitar since he was 9. When the opportunity to make his own electric guitar recently opened up, the 17-year-old jumped at it. “I love guitar,” he said. “It’s really an escape; it relieves a ton of stress. I love music.” Sam and eight others who think a lot like him gathered last week for the first of three guitar-building sessions at The Idea Shop in downtown Starkville. They are just the type of enthusiasts Jeffrey Rupp and the ...
ESCANABA — Bay College was recently awarded a $1.7 million five-year TRIO Student Support Services grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which will fund the staff and services that make up the TRIO SSS Program at the college. Bay College's TRIO SSS Program is a student-support ...
LUDINGTON, Mich. — The “Great Pumpkin” visited Mason County last Saturday, to the delight of several local kids, and their parents and families, too. Mark and Sandi Williams welcomed family and friends to their 30-acre property in Summit Township to see a massive, prize-winning gourd during a scavenger hunt and pumpkin-carving event to celebrate the season. The gourd — weighing in at 1,412 pounds — was the largest in Michigan at the time of the St. John's Michigan Pumpkin Contest on Sept. 26. Mark and Sandi brought it to the area to make sure the children of their friends ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part three of a three-part series. Part one ran on page 16A in the Oct. 10-11 weekend edition of The Mining Journal, while part two ran on page 16A of the Oct. 17-18 edition. The next day was the last day of the leadership camp I attended in Maryland (to read ...
MARQUETTE — People can help local 4-H through an online fundraiser now underway. Liana Pepin, the 4-H educator in Marquette County, said the purpose of the fundraiser is to raise money to support local programming. “Right now, we are not meeting in person, so all of our work is done ...
