EDITOR'S NOTE: The Mining Journal, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in building America. Before the advent of the railroad, wagons provided the most ...
Today in History: May 26, the World War II Dunkirk evacuation begins By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2026. There are 219 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day. Today in history: On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western counties ...
SIDNAW — The Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment has conducted their 10th annual free, hands-on, field off-road-vehicle/all-terrain-vehicle (ORV/ATV) training of 6th grade students at Camp Nesbit, managed by the Ottawa National Forest, located near ...