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MDHHS announces new plan to address sickle cell disease

MARQUETTE – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announces the release of a new sickle cell disease strategic plan that continues more than a decade of work to improve care and services to individuals with SCD, with a heightened focus on reducing barriers for adults who live ...

Crews continue blizzard clean up

ESCANABA — Road crews have had a challenging week cleaning up from a blizzard the likes of which haven’t been seen in the banana belt in almost half a century. The snow that fell between Sunday the 15th and Tuesday the 17th dumped between 33 and 52 inches in Delta County. Those measurements ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE – Tuesday night Northern Michigan University President William Vandament went toe-to-toe in a “boxing match” against reigning U.S. champion Davarryl Williamson during a United States Olympic Education Center (USOEC) open house at NMU’s Hedgcock Fieldhouse here. ...

Austrian electroacoustic composer, sound artist Thomann to lecture, perform

ESCANABA — International electroacoustic composer and sound artist Ina Thomann will be on the Escanaba campus at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 7 in the Besse Theater on the Bay College campus. Electroacoustic composer and sound artist Thomann emerges as a distinctive voice at the intersection of ...

Iran war is illegal, worse than a mistake

When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the international condemnation from Europe and elsewhere was loud and clear. Leaders did not expect legal threats to shift Vladimir Putin or end war crimes by his troops. But they understood the importance of naming what had ...