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Sunday: Our Youth

GETTING INVOLVED

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University student Gwen Feamster, a political science major from downstate Linden has been selected to serve on the Michigan Department of State’s Collegiate Student Advisory Task Force, NMU announced. She is among 25 undergraduates chosen from more than 200 ...

Hitting the trails

BARAGA — Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment, MI-TRALE, provided hands-on training in addition to one day of classroom study for the students of Ontonagon, Ewen Trout Creek, Lake Linden, and Dollar Bay Schools. There were a total of around 130 students ...

8-18 Media: Releasing my first novel

Over the course of my life up to this point, I have worked on a wide variety of projects. However, none of them has been as significant as the creation of my first novel, Forsaken City. This has been a multi-year project that started before the COVID-19 pandemic began and is now coming to an ...

Sailing Superior

HOUGHTON — Sea Change Expeditions stopped in Houghton this week as part of a Lake Superior voyage to raise awareness of environmental issues affecting the lake. Directors Mark and Katya Gordon make the trip each year in their 40-foot steelboat with a fresh crew of young adult volunteers from ...

Long COVID: My experience with an invisible disease

As of April 2022, over 514 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with Covid-19, with over 6.23 million deaths reported, according to the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Many people who are diagnosed with Covid-19 may not become severely ill and will often get better within ...

A ‘smooth’ way to enjoy spring

MARQUETTE — Mixing berries and fruits to make healthy drinks was one way parents and their kids could celebrate spring, even though the weather hasn’t exactly been springlike lately. “Celebrate Spring with Smoothies!” took place on Tuesday at the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum in ...