MARQUETTE — Westwood High School business students will compete for national awards at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference, “Go Beyond Your Limits,” in Dallas from May 3–9. Seventeen WHS students competed, earning 13 awards at the recent State ...

ALPENA — Over 250 Thunder Bay Junior High School students went on an adventure recently without leaving the classroom. Randy Baker, a professional trained biologist and naturalist and owner of Naturalist Endeavors, led an interactive Lewis and Clark presentation for the eighth-grade ...

MARQUETTE — The travelogue “Points North” will be the subject of the next author event featuring authors included on the U.P. Notable Book List. The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association, announced that the ...

MARQUETTE — Critical race theory is a polarizing issue with, it appears, no easy answers on whether it belongs in schools and universities. To delve deeper into this issue, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University hosted a Feb. 17 forum at Jamrich Hall on CRT ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When news services reported that 33 members of Congress had signed a letter nominating 95-year-old Texas schoolteacher and activist Opal Lee for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, a Memphis woman had special reason to celebrate. “This is amazing to my soul,” said Alice Faye ...

MARQUETTE — Several local students are winners of the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association’s fifth annual Dandelion Cottage Award. The award recognizes what UPPAA called “U.P. student short story writers of excellence” in grades five through 12. Winning the senior ...