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Preserving teeth the goal of local program

MARQUETTE — Helping area students maintain healthy smiles starts with being prepared when a dental emergency happens. The Marquette County Health Department, in partnership with the Superior District Dental Society and Peninsula Pharmacy, is providing area schools with “Transport a Tooth” kits. The tooth saver kits help students and school staff respond quickly when a permanent tooth is knocked out. Once again, Peninsula Pharmacy donated the tooth saver kits for free! The MCHD will distribute the kits in September. A kit is used if a student has a tooth accidentally knocked out ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

60 years ago BARAGA COUNTY – A Michigan Technological University forestry professor is attempting to increase the songbird population in the Upper Peninsula and save large stands of jack pine from destruction by insects. Dr. Norman Sloan has spent the summer living in the bush on the Baraga Plains in an effort to reduce an infestation of jack pine budworm. Damage to trees in this area is already heavy, and if not controlled, may lead to total destruction of valuable forests. Sloan is working on the theory that an increase in bird population will reduce the insect count. Since the ...

Menominee County woman gets decades in prison

DAGGETT — A Daggett woman will spend at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under the age of 13. Rocquel Anne Irving, 39, was sentenced Friday in the Menominee County 41st Circuit Court to a minimum prison term of ...

Retiring old tires in Copper Country

HOUGHTON — The Superior Watershed Partnership is giving residents in Houghton County’s Adams, Portage and Chassell townships the opporunity to recycle old automobile tires. On Saturday, residents of those three townships can bring up to 10 tires per household to 20251 B. F. Gundlach Road ...

Soo Line Historical and Technical Society visits

HARRIS — The 2026 Soo Line Historical and Technical Society Convention has beguns. With a central location of the Island Resort and Casino, the event continues through Sunday. The society celebrates primarily the memory of the Soo Line Railroad, which was established in the late 19th ...