EAGLE RIVER — Keweenaw County was awarded $82,172 to support first responders from the $5 million First Responder Training and Grant Program. The grant program supports efforts of local governments to expand recruitment, improve training and provide additional professional development ...
Current statistics show that there are about 2 million farms found here in America, and approximately 98 percent of them are operated by families, by individuals, by family partnerships, or by family corporations. It is further reported that just one United States farm feeds about 166 ...
Let’s talk about toenails. Likely, it’s one of your favorite topics and then again, maybe not. If it were, the odds are good the discussion would be centered on the weird changes occurring to our nails, especially as we age. Most nail conditions have been studied and written up in the ...
On a sunny day in May with only slivers of snow still on the ground, I stopped at the grocery store and bought a pack of two Twinkies. It wasn’t a particularly brave act, I admit, but still an unusual one for me. I didn’t do it because of a sudden craving for a Twinkie, but rather as a ...
Everything is back to normal, isn’t it? More and more, it seems that way. During a recent day of shopping (more than one store), I noticed mask use was rare. Social distancing is clearly a thing of the past. Did we survive the pandemic? Did you know that is a Greek term, pan meaning ...
LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed May as Hepatitis Awareness Month and this Thursday as Hepatitis Testing Day in Michigan. In recognition, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is urging Michiganders to get tested for hepatitis B and C and highlighting one year of progress of the department’s We Treat Hep C Initiative. Launched on April 1, 2021, the initiative is designed to eliminate hepatitis C virus in Michigan by increasing access to hepatitis C treatment among Michigan Medicaid and Healthy Michigan Plan beneficiaries. Since April 1, 2021, nearly ...
