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Editorial

Utility bill scammers now working in area

A new kind of scammer is reportedly working in the area, and these ones are using utility bills to bilk customers. Word of this comes to us from SEMCO, the well-known gas company used by thousands of people in Superiorland and beyond. According to SEMCO, scammers are using the internet to ...

Detroit in spotlight in NFL draft event

The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City, which was once one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities, has bounced back from filing for bankruptcy in 2013, ...

Leave them be: don’t disturb wildlife babies

The perennial spring message of leaving wildlife babies be took on added significance last week. Images circulated from North Carolina of a group of people pulling two very young bear cubs out of a tree to pose for selfies. One cub later turned up sitting in a nearby retention pond and was ...

Tick season is here; precautions needed to avoid illness

If Superiorland residents didn’t already know it, tick season is in full swing and with it, the danger of contracting one of several nasty bacterial infections that are becoming all too common in the area. But ticks shouldn’t keep you out of the woods, if that’s something you enjoy ...

Don’t risk it today: Drive sober on 4-20

Today, April 20, or 4/20, has become an unofficial holiday for cannabis enthusiasts. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) remind cannabis users that it is dangerous and illegal to use cannabis and then ...

Public court files should remain public

A new rule in state court will require records to be deemed nonpublic after they’re bound over to circuit court. Like some kind of game of switcheroo with felony files, the records will be closed in district court on bind-over to circuit court, then closed in circuit if the case is remanded ...