ESCANABA — Businesses impacted by the warm winter and lack of snow in Delta County are eligible to apply for disaster loans through the Small Business Administration. Federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available due to ongoing federal drought declarations affecting 42 Michigan ...

HANCOCK — The Hancock Planning Commission recommended the draft of the city’s five-year master plan for approval with updates at its meeting Wednesday. Following a work session on Monday, the planning commission added another set of objectives under environmental hazards mitigation aimed ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — They’ll miss the people who come to Family Ties Adult Center each week, some for a few hours, a day, a few days, the entire week. They know many of these participants, as they prefer to call them, won’t miss them, at least not for long. Most who spend time at Family Ties ...

NAHMA — A competitive squirrel hunt has grown into a fundraising force. The 9th Annual Yooper Squirrel Derby raised $3,300 earlier this month for youth shooting sports. “It went awesome. The weather was it was really windy, which doesn’t make for great squirrel hunting — they just ...

LADSTONE — The crowd that showed up to Monday evening’s Gladstone City Commission regular meeting — a twice-monthly occurrence usually held in chambers empty of citizens, though they are always welcome to attend — feared their taxes were going to skyrocket and that they were not being ...

ESCANABA — Three Escanaba Public Safety Officers were recognized this month for saving the life of an Escanaba man. On July 20, 2023, at approximately 8:42 p.m., officers were dispatched to a home in the 200 block of Ogden Avenue on a report of an unresponsive male subject, later identified ...