Local schedule 5/10/25
Today’s games High school softball Candy Swetkis Strikefest tournament at Escanaba, TBA Tennis Escanaba at Kingsford Invitational, 10 a.m. High school ...
Sports flashback May 4-10
May 4, 1970 — Marquette gained top honors in the Newberry Invitational track and field meet with 70 points. Rudyard was runner-up at 41, ...
Library staff thanks Great Start Family Coalition
This week’s bouquets go to: The staff of the Escanaba Public Library wishes to acknowledge the Delta-Schoolcraft Great Start Family Coalition, led by Great Start ...
Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday
Saturday gives good reason to put more than mail out for your U.S. Postal Service carrier. Since 1993, the National Association of Letter ...
Useless government
NEW YORK — I have a conflict. I don’t much like Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s new Education Secretary. I sued her once. She and her sleazy ...
Holes in the Constitution
WASHINGTON — Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between ...
Ralph ‘Moose’ Young
MARQUETTE — Ralph “Moose” Young, age 93, passed away on May 6, 2025 at DJ Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette. His wife Leda is listed among the surviving ...
Mark ‘Chum’ Feathers
Alice Jones
MDOT lifting all remaining spring weight restrictions Friday
LANSING -- Effective 6 a.m. Friday, May 9, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will lift the remaining seasonal weight restrictions on all state ...
Gladstone train group to meet on May 12
Holy Name Spring Music Festival Monday
Detroit-area house explodes, killing a woman and blasting a man to the front yard
SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — An explosion destroyed a house before dawn Thursday in suburban Detroit, killing a woman who was trapped in the rubble and severely ...
