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Lake Superior Regional Indivisible to host informational election security event
SKANDIA — At 6 p.m. on May 20, Lake Superior Regional Indivisible will be hosting Promote the Vote’s Election Protection Director Mackenzie Walz at the Skandia Township Hall for a discussion about election security and federal, state and local governments’ roles in elections. “She'll ...
Callie Barr kicks off series of town hall meetings, addresses Bergman staffer controversy
MARQUETTE — On Monday evening, 1st Congressional District candidate Callie Barr, D-Michigan, made the first stop of her town hall series in Traverse City. Barr’s Marquette town hall will be held from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. on June 24 at the Northern Center at Northern Michigan University. ...
Producer prices shot up 6% from 2025, adding to pressure on companies to raise prices for customers
WASHINGTON — U.S. wholesale inflation came in hot last month. Producer prices rose 6% from a year earlier, the highest point in more than three years, as the Iran war pushes up energy prices and intensifies pressure on companies to pass along their rising costs to consumers. The Labor ...
Gallows built along M-28, generating controversy
MARQUETTE — Last week, Tom Pegenau, owner of Pegenau Builders, set up a wooden gallows structure with a noose outside of the Pegenau Builders business on M-28 in Chocolay Township, later painted with the words “bureaucrats,” “justice” and “freedom,” along with a banner reading ...
Search for Starla Goings fails to find her
MUNISING — This past Saturday, a search was held for Starla Goings, the 65-year-old Munising woman who went missing this past August. It apparently turned up nothing. The search began at the Au Train Fire Station, and was coordinated by the Alger County Sheriff’s Office alongside Nick ...






