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Police: Menominee Township motorcycle crash could be result of impaired driving

MENOMINEE — According to a Tuesday press release from the Menominee County Sheriff’s Office, US Highway 41 near Willow Road #3.5 in Menominee Township was the site of a serious motorcycle crash on Sunday. “The crash involved a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle carrying two occupants,” said the release. “Both occupants of the motorcycle sustained major injuries and were transported to Aurora Bay Area Medical Center for treatment. “The driver of the passenger vehicle was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving in connection with the crash.” The investigation remains ...

North Words and Music Fall Phantoms Show at PWPL

MARQUETTE — It’s time again for North Words and Music. Yes, more good folksy words and music are coming once again to the Peter White Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22 for a Fall Phantoms show. Join regulars B.G. Bradley, author of the just released “North Words: A Year in Poetry” and part I of the Gothic noire anthology, “Shadows of the North;” two time Upper Peninsula poet laureate and author of “A Bigfoot Beastiary and Other Wonders,” Marty Achatz; the NWAM Players: actress Jacque Love; Public Radio 90’s Nicole Walton; Jim Edwards of the Upper Peninsula ...

MI-TRALE to install nine additional trail counters with Yamaha grant

WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA — Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment is moving forward with plans to install nine additional trail counters throughout the western Upper Peninsula, thanks to a $7,500 grant from Yamaha’s Outdoor Access Initiative Program. MI-TRALE ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

60 years ago MARQUETTE — Twenty-year terms in federal penitentiaries were meted out here today to three men who robbed the Bark River State Bank last June 27. Sentences were imposed by Judge W. Walace Kent in U.S. District Court here this morning to Robert Wayne Ross, 35, Reed City, and Roy Edwin Waldo, 25, and his brother, Clarence Elmon Waldo, 32, both of Baldwin. The three men had pleaded guilty to the charge when they were arraigned in federal court here a week ago. They admitted taking about $33,000 in a daring daylight holdup of the bank. Ross was arrested Aug. 12, in Panama ...

Between the Columns

With autumn being arguably the best time to get outside in the U.P., here are some new nature-focused additions to Peter White Public Library’s Adult Services Non-Fiction collection. Book descriptions are adapted from publisher and library catalog materials. “Backyard Birds of North ...

Guindon Moving & Storage takes top monthly honor

MARQUETTE — Guindon Moving & Storage, an interstate agent for national van line Wheaton World Wide Moving as well as partner with Bekins Van Line, has earned another national honor, being named Wheaton World Wide Moving’s Agent of the Month for September. The recognition marks the ...