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Rotary Club provides gifts for Learning Center students

WELLS — The Escanaba Rotary Club met on Tuesday to wrap gifts that will be presented next week to students of the Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District’s Learning Center. The Learning Center provides educational programs for students from age of 3 to 26 with moderate to severe ...

Contract reached for Spreitzer as Gladstone interim city manager

GLADSTONE — The Gladstone City Commission agreed Monday to a six-month contract for Robert Spreitzer as interim city manager, along with a one-month training contract with current manager Eric Buckman. Spreitzer, superintendent of the water treatment plant since July 2018, will move into ...

Escanaba council to vote on rezoning for condo project

ESCANABA – Escanaba City Council on Thursday will have a second reading, public hearing and vote on adopting an ordinance to rezone property near Willow Creek Road and Third Avenue South for a proposed condominium project. If adopted, Ordinance 1315 would switch the 5.17-acre parcel, ...

UP resident Hasenfus, key figure in 1980s Iran-Contra affair, dies

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died. Hasenfus died Nov. 26 in Menominee after a nine-year battle with cancer, according to his obituary from the ...

Study challenges assumption about Great Lakes ice cover and evaporation

Ice cover on the Great Lakes has often been thought to cap evaporation that can influence water levels and regional weather. But a new study finds ice doesn’t play as big a role in blocking evaporation as once thought — which could prove vital for predicting future climate conditions and ...

Hancock celebration Thursday to mark Finland independence

HANCOCK — It’s been at least four generations since Finland achieved its independence in 1917, and this year’s observance of that courageous achievement at the Finnish American Heritage Center will put several members of the youngest generation in the spotlight. Beginning at 5:30 p.m. ...