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Keeping kids warm: Effort marks 13th year

By RANDY CROUCH Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — For the 13th winter in a row, local businesses, organizations and people throughout the community are working together to help families in need by ensuring that every child in the area has winter-ready clothing. Project Keep Kids Warm clothing collection is getting under way. The project, organized by Wesley United Methodist Church in Ishpeming, has been a wildly successful community project throughout the past decade plus. Last winter the work done by Project Keep Kids Warm resulted in more than 300 kids receiving winter jackets, ...

What’s Flying: Some birds do offer mysteries

“Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.” — Zeenat Aman By the middle of September, many who love the outdoors are asking, “What’s next?” Most of the local ruby-throated hummingbirds, swallows, ...

Crivitz fundraiser set for Saturday

CRIVITZ, Wis. — Communities that Care of Marinette & Menominee Counties and JW Ranch will host a brat fry and pony rides fundraiser from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Timberline Resort on Lake Noquebay, W6296 Circle Drive, Crivitz. They will be selling 50/50 raffle tickets and are also cooking, serving, and selling the brats at $4 each, while JW Ranch will be offering free pony rides. Proceeds raised will go towards youth drug and alcohol prevention efforts in Marinette and Menominee counties and will also help provide those that don’t have the ability or resources ...

Right to Life presentation Thursday in Iron Mountain

IRON MOUNTAIN — There will be a presentation by Corey Shankleton at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Iron Mountain Senior Center, 700 Crystal Lake Blvd. in Iron Mountain. He is director of Faith2Action in Michigan and former president of Heartbeat Coalition. Shankleton, a Right to Life advocate, will share his views on the “Reproductive Freedom For All” proposal that may be on the November ballot. Community members are also invited to stay and attend the regular meeting of the Dickinson County Republican Committee, which will begin at 7 p.m. in the same location. Under discussion ...

Cedar River State Harbor / boating access construction project begins this week

CEDAR RIVER — An improvement project at the Cedar River State Harbor and Boating Access Site in Menominee County started Tuesday. Though the harbor and site will stay open during the work – which includes repairing and replacing the sidewalk along the seawall, replacing the fuel dock and fuel pumps, and raising the three finger piers – the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said visitors should expect some disruptions, including fuel sales. Harbor slips 1-4, fuel sales and the pump-out station will close for the remaining 2022 season. In addition, the sidewalk leading ...

Hancock DDA Director Remembered

By GARRETT NEESE The Houghton Daily Mining Gazette HANCOCK — One of Deb Mann’s many contributions to Hancock was helping to grow the farmer’s market from a small, out-of-the-way event at Porvoo Park to a bustling happening in the heart of downtown. It was at the market on Quincy ...