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Geology club to meet

FLORENCE, Wisc. — The Northwoods Geology Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Wild Rivers Interpretive Center in Florence, Wisconsin. Attendees should park in the lower parking lot and enter the back door. This month’s meeting will be member stories, show and tell, and planning for next year’s field trips. Tentatively this is the last meeting of 2026. If there is more happening, we will keep everyone posted. Check out our Facebook group, Northwoods Geology. Anyone interested in geology, mining history, environmental science and local mineral collecting is ...

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Grants help communities stretch budgets by approving renewable energy projects

SANDS — Michigan’s Renewables Ready Communities Awards are providing extra funding to encourage local governments to move forward on large-scale renewable energy projects and the recipients including Sands Township in Marquette County are using the money for local projects, including park ...

Wet conditions continue to impede firefighting efforts as containment

UPPER PENINSULA — The several wildland fires across the Upper Peninsula are being increasingly contained by firefighting crews, which are battling against hazardous conditions caused by a week of wet weather. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reports that the Ridge Fire was at ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

60 years ago GWINN — Four persons arrested by state police paid a total of $63.20 in fines and costs when arraigned before Justice Arthur Burkman at the Gwinn Town Hall. Raymond Presseau, Onaway, paid $15 for driving left of the center line causing an accident: Bernard Harase, Sawyer AFB, paid $14.40 for violation of the basic speed law; Earl Foress, Gwinn, paid $4.40 for allowing an unlicensed minor to drive and Michael Ridge, Sawyer Air Force Base, paid $29.40 for reckless driving. 90 years ago MARQUETTE — Held over by popular demand to one full week over its scheduled 5-day ...