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EMP asks for $600,000
September 5, 2008
ESCANABA — Two $300,000 loan requests from Engineered Machined Products (EMP) will go before the Escanaba Loan Administration Board next week.
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Long flight home
September 5, 2008
RAPID RIVER — The annual migration of monarch butterflies, which includes the Stonington Peninsula in its path, has been studied by the U.S. Forest Service for more than a decade.
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Demand for food still great
September 5, 2008
ESCANABA — Despite recent donations from the community to the Salvation Army pantry, the demand for food continues to be larger than the supply.
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Michigan delegates make a statement at convention
September 5, 2008
ESCANABA — Judi Schwalbach said Michigan delegates got noticed at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, when Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin gave her acceptance speech.
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Friday's news briefs
September 5, 2008
Days River School open house Sept. 14
RAPID RIVER — The Days River School is scheduled to hold its annual open house Sunday, Sept. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m.
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Observe Mental Health Awareness Month: Educate yourself
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 4:47PM
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While great strides have been made to beat out the misunderstandings and taboos that once surrounded mental illnesses, there is always room for improvement. Depression and suicide are two areas I feel are misunderstand. Shortly before my senior year of high school began, a friend of mine — someone I grew up with — committed suicide. It was unexpected, shocking. My 18-year-old friend Eric was involved in activities at school and had many friends. But, secretly, he was depressed. At 17, I don't believe I could fully comprehend what happened. Thousands die in accidents, etc., nearly everyday, but, Eric chose to die, and I didn't understand why. It's a question I will never fully know the answer to. In the years that have passed since Eric's death, I've absorbed just about every tidbit, fact, or advice on how to prevent such a thing from happening.
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Beyond explanation
Thu, August 7, 2008 @ 2:51PM
Late last week, a tragedy occurred along the Wisconsin-Michigan border. It involved the death of young people and for no apparent reason other than someone felt too much "stress" and they felt they received the short end of the stick all the time. Three teens were killed while swimming and not harming anyone. The only thing they were guilty of was being in the wrong place at the wrong time and being in the same area of alleged shooter Scott J. Johnson of Kingsford. Johnson supposedly has allegedly told police he had been under stress lately and decided to use the teens as bait so he could shoot even more people. His lawyer is asking for people to keep an open mind. It is difficult to keep an open mind with such a waste of life that has taken place. I don't care how stressed out you are or how much you think life has short-changed you -- murder does not solve anything and only brings more misery to innocent people.
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What did you do on your summer vacation?
Tue, July 29, 2008 @ 1:43PM
Let's call this "scenes from a summer vacation." My wife and I just got back from 1 1/2 weeks camping at our most popular (based on time spent there) spot -- Pentoga Campground in Iron County on Chicagon Lake. We've gone there for 20 years or so, with more or less the same old gang. It's a beautiful lake, and with the three families we go to Pentoga with all have boats, so it's a perfect fit. By far, camping is the most relaxing vacation there is -- even with the advent for those @#*&% cell phones. I sleep in daily and do my only serious reading of the year. This summer I read an oldie but a goodie -- John Feinstein's "A Season on the Brink." The author wrote it after spending an entire college basketball season with then-Indiana Coach Bobby Knight. The book seems to suggest Knight's bullying ways is tantamount to the ends justifying the means. After reading detail after detail in the book, I'd have to disagree.
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Michael Phelps > Chuck Norris?
Sun, August 17, 2008 @ 11:33PM
So, we’re just a little bit past the halfway point of these Beijing Olympics, and of course, the second week has never seemed more irrelevant in Olympic history. Michael Phelps has already dreamed the impossible dream. He has his eight gold medals, he has his million dollar bonus from Speedo, and after tonight’s hour-long interview with Bob Costas (not a misprint), it appears he can just spend the rest of his life being Michael Phelps and cavorting in the pantheon of American Heros and Swimming Gods. But NBC has paid for an additional eight nights of the Olympics. Now what? Since Phelps did not, as far as we know, qualify for the hurdles, NBC has to figure out how to teach us to like track and field, which wasn’t high on the totem pole to begin with and got even lower in the last four years thanks to BALCO.
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