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Between the Columns: Check out what’s available at Peter White Public Library

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Book descriptions in this article are adapted from publishers’ summaries and library catalog records. Here is what Book & Banter Book Group has been reading at the Peter White Public Library. To learn more about library book groups visit PWPL.info. “Atmosphere” Taylor Jenkins Reid (FIC REID) is the story of Jane Goodwin, a star nerd. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates but one crew member stands out. Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and ...

Today in History: 1981, America gets its MTV

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Today is Saturday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2026. There are 152 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 1, 1981, MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by The Buggles. Also on this date: In ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

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60 years ago NEGAUNEE — Although a final contract covering salaries of teachers for the 1966-67 school year has not been signed, the Negaunee Board of Education has approved salaries for other employees of the school district. School officials indicated today that they were hopeful that a contract for teaching personnel would be signed within the next week. Negotiations between the committee of the local chapter of the Michigan Education Association and representatives of the school board have been under way since last spring. Covered in the salary increases approved by the board are ...

Addressing the housing crisis

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HANCOCK — The Western U.P. Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR) has developed and launched a new website to tackle the affordable housing crisis in the Western U.P. — westernuphousing.org. Regional Planner Lisa McKenzie was the lead developer on the project and said affordable housing in the Keweenaw is a complex issue spanning across the rest of WUPPDR's working region. "We have Michigan Tech, that has a lot of students who for many years have been over saturating — or stressing the system. We have had more and more people go outside of the community from where they work to ...

The state of the street

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ESCANABA — As the seat of Delta County continues to carry out required infrastructure improvements and other projects, Ludington Street remains closed from the sixth to 17th blocks, with the exception of of 10th Street, which has been open to traffic for a couple weeks since work progressed ...

A fitting farewell

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COPPER HARBOR - After 45 years years, Battery D, First Michigan Light Artillery reenactment and living history group will visit the Fort Wilkins for last time this weekend, according to DNR Michigan History Center Historian Barry James said. The battery will encamp this weekend, today, tomorrow and Sunday. Re-creating the volunteer artillery unit organized at White Pigeon, Mich., in 1861, the group interprets army life of the period, demonstrating artillery drills, period cooking and soldiers' pastimes. Their encampment will feature costumed interpreters, tents, a depiction of army ...