GLADSTONE — The Delta County Regional Inclusive Community Coalition (RICC) visited Jones Elementary School to teach the youth about respectability disability awareness. The two-day event included all five third-grade classes at Jones, totaling roughly 125 students. “Respectability is our ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Engineering for $19.3 million in planned Iron Mountain water and sewer improvements will carry a $2.17 million price tag under a proposal the city council approved Monday. Most of the work awarded to Coleman Engineering of Iron Mountain is for designing and bidding a $13.3 million project to replace water mains and about 400 lead service lines. The fee on a time and materials basis is not to exceed $1.496 million. The sewer portion is less straightforward, as financing must still be pursued for an estimated $6 million project. The engineering fee approved is not to ...
HOUGHTON — Bay Ambulance has come close to becoming fully staffed with five local residents of the Baraga and L’Anse completing their paramedic course through the Upper Peninsula Health System’s School of EMT on October 19 to qualify for a state written test. Brandt Tembreull, Samantha Peltola, Ed Roth, Lisa Broemer and Mary Mayo took on the medical course that was scheduled and lined up to accommodate the inability to attend a traditional Monday through Friday class schedule nor move to Escanaba or Sault Ste. Marie to attend colleges. The class oversaw 1,141 hours of training ...
LANSING — On Monday, in the 54A District Court in Lansing, Judge Kristen Simmons bound over Heather Lombardini, 47, of Okemos, to stand trial in the 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Lombardini, who was charged in February, was bound over on one count of Uttering and Publishing and one count of Forgery, both 14-year felonies. In May 2021, Robert LaBrant filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of State’s office alleging a “dark money scheme” to use Michigan Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility and Michigan! My Michigan!, ...
HOUGHTON — Houghton County is starting the search for a new administrator. Ben Larson informed the county board after last week’s meeting he will be leaving the county to take a position with another company. Larson had served as administrator since April 2023. This marked his second ...
ESCANABA — Local School Resource Officers (SROs) want students to feel safe not only in school but also around law enforcement. The schools and county have been preparing should an active shooting occur in any of the county’s schools. Most recently, Gladstone High School served as the training site for an active shooter drill at the end of Aug., just before classes resumed. “The training itself was probably one of the most realistic active shooter training that I’ve participated in,” said School Resource Officer for Gladstone Area Schools Mallory Nelsen. Escanaba Area ...
