Great Lakes CHAMPS

June 28, 2023

LANSING — A new book about the Great Lakes is written to reflect that their problems, solutions and champions are interrelated, much like the ecosystem it portrays. “This whole thing of bringing stakeholders together, creating a vision, co-producing knowledge, co-innovating solutions is in the book,” author John Hartig said. “You don’t get that anywhere else.” Hartig’s “Great Lakes Champions: Grassroots Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Watersheds” (Michigan State University Press, $24.95) highlights 14 people who created programs and solutions to help communities that ...

NMU alumna honored with Page Turner Award

June 21, 2023

By KRISTI EVANS and JULIA SEITZ Northern Michigan University MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University alumna Jodie Cain Smith has garnered international recognition for her writing. The United Kingdom-based Page Turner Awards, dubbed the “Rolls Royce” of writing award programs, ...

Halls of Excellence

June 14, 2023

ISHPEMING — Ishpeming Public Schools is looking at special way to recognize notable graduates. The district is creating the Halls of Excellence, which will be used to honor the accomplishments of former IPS students as well as the staff who enabled their efforts and other people who have ...

Studying water

June 14, 2023

NASA’s new satellite is a huge upgrade for measuring Earth’s surface water that could help scientists. It’s like swapping out your old iPhone for a new model with a better camera, and it could help us better understand the Great Lakes. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography, SWOT for short, is about the size of an SUV and carries an array of instruments to measure surface water. The product of a more-than-20-year collaboration between NASA and France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the satellite was launched last December. It will measure surface currents and the ...

Venturing ‘North of Nelson’

June 7, 2023

MARQUETTE — Working in an animal kennel and as a factory worker, pipe welder, assistant manager of a lumber company and clinical social worker in the Michigan prison system is bound to give a person a wide variety of life experiences. The U.P. Notable Book Club’s next featured author in ...

Michigan’s list of birds at risk updated

June 7, 2023

LANSING — Michigan officials recently took six birds off of the states’ endangered and threatened species list. But it added seven other species. The last time the list was updated was in 2009. Among the species that newly receive threatened status are the Eastern whip-poor-will, ...