Applications for Christmas baskets ESCANABA — Applications for the 2025 St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Basket Program will be available starting today and ending Friday, Nov. 14, at the St. Vincent de Paul Service Center, 115 N. Eighth St. in Escanaba. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays, ...

Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 28 years, and I’m starting to feel like my husband doesn’t love me as much anymore as he once did. We talk and get along, but it feels like we are more friends instead of lovers. We used to make love all the time. But since we moved in with his dad to ...

Dear Heloise: Calling 811 before you dig a hole for a bush is a waste of the investigator's time and a needless expense. Now if you're planting a tree with a substantial-sized root ball (with perhaps a contractor who uses a large hydraulic spade), make the call by all means. Generally, service ...

Gladstone Legion breakfast GLADSTONE — American Legion Post 71 will have a breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at the post, 802 Delta Ave. in Gladstone. Cost is $12, with ages 5 and younger eating for free. Eagles breakfast on Sunday ESCANABA — The Escanaba Eagles 1088 will serve ...

Dear Annie: I’ve been close friends with “Tina” for over 25 years. We’ve raised our kids together and supported each other through losses and hard times. But in the last year or so, things have shifted. Tina has become increasingly self-absorbed; every conversation circles back to her. ...

Dear Heloise: You really should make a correction to the advice in a recent column regarding pillbugs. These crustaceans (they are not insects) live where the soil is damp and feed on organic matter, recycling it in the process. Anyone with these organisms in their indoor flower pots is keeping ...