Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...
MARQUETTE — The Superior Health Foundation has announced a $65,000 allocation to support food pantries and hunger-relief programs across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This funding comes in response to the delay in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit distributions, which began ...
ESCANABA – Bay College announces, "The Wilding Hours," an exhibition in the Besse Gallery featuring artists Erin LaBonte and Don Krumpos. The reception and artist talk will take place in the Besse Gallery at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20. The gallery is free and open to the public. The ...
LANSING — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, "when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped shape its legacy. Atkins, now 86, was a news reporter in ...
ISHPEMING — The four Ishpeming Lutheran churches, Bethany, Bethel, Faith and Trinity, invite the public to attend their 10th Annual Cookie Walk from 9:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, Dec. 13, at Bethel Lutheran Church, 333 E. Ridge St. A variety of Christmas cookies and other sweet treats will be ...