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Event aims to provide cards for veterans

ESCANABA — Bay College is partnering up with a medical center to send cards to veterans during National Suicide Awareness Month. The event will take place at the Escanaba campus in the library on Thursday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Eastern time and again at the Iron Mountain campus in the lower ...

Model trains on display

ESCANABA — The first-ever Railroad Day took place in the Antique Village at the U.P. State Fairgrounds on Friday. The event was a celebration of the third anniversary of the founding of the Gladstone Michigan Soo Line #730 Authority. It was held in conjunction with the Soo Line Historical ...

Chandelier Society receives $15,000 from KHF

CALUMET — The Calumet Theatre Chandelier Society’s project to replace a large chandelier that once hung in the auditorium of the theater received a generous donation on Thursday that puts the project a giant leap closer to completion. The Keweenaw Health Foundation provided a $15,000 ...

Viet vet gives program

KINGSFORD — A former nurse who served in Vietnam was featured speaker for the annual Tribute to Veterans lunch Friday in the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 439 hanger at Ford Airport. Veterans were treated to a free lunch in an event that takes place on the eve of Ford Airport ...

Esky brothers complete bucket-list Iceland hike

ESCANABA — Brothers Ryan and Aaron Deiter recently trekked over 50 miles on Iceland’s famous Laugavegur Trail. Considered a destination hike, the multi-day guided-hike began in Landmannalaugar, a popular hiking and backpacking region located in the Highlands of Iceland. Known for exotic, ...

Phase I of Sunset Beach project well underway at Lake Antoine Park

IRON MOUNTAIN — Construction is underway on Phase I of the Sunset Beach project at Lake Antoine Park in Iron Mountain. Lake Antoine Park Partners’ first goal was to develop the 2,300 feet of lake frontage of the 1950s beach house to allow for handicapped accessibility. “We are excited ...