By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School’s environmental science class has been awarded a $2,000 grant to support a project that will bring more local food into the lunch room. U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Service Learning ...
PAW PAW, Mich. — On a windy December morning in rural southwest Michigan, an American flag flapped at half-staff outside Paw Paw Early Elementary School. A social worker with a miniature therapy dog named Trixie offered comfort at the entry doors. Children wearing face masks scampered off buses into the morning chill, some stooping to pet the shaggy pup before ambling inside. Like kids in so many cities and towns around the globe, the youngsters in Michigan’s Van Buren Intermediate School District have been through a lot these past few years. A relentless pandemic that continues ...
MARQUETTE — Pets can’t verbally express their gratitude for being adopted from a shelter to their new parents, but one local school has made that task a little easier. The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare shelter expressed its appreciation to a North Star Montessori Academy classroom via ...
JOHANNESBURG — The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus, and the Pfizer vaccine seems to offer less defense against infection from it but still good protection from hospitalization, according to an analysis of data from South Africa, where the new variant is driving a surge in infections. The findings released Tuesday are preliminary and have not been peer-reviewed — the gold standard in scientific research — but they line up with other early data about omicron’s behavior, including that it seems to be more easily ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University graduating senior Lynda “Lyndie” Unterkircher of downstate Sturgis finds herself in a position she never could have predicted when she first arrived on campus. The first-generation college student and self-described “quiet person” is the ...
MARQUETTE — Michigan schools fail to identify students with dyslexia and fail to provide them with services they need to succeed, critics say. The widespread genetic and often hereditary disability makes it harder to read or interpret new words and symbols. It has no impact on intelligence. Senate lawmakers are weighing legislation to mandate dyslexia screenings for every student from kindergarten to grade 3. It would require teachers to get training in dyslexia. Deon Butler of Detroit told lawmakers at a recent hearing that public schools failed him. Butler, who is dyslexic, ...
