×

Local News

Local songwriter’s concert to benefit Tri-County Safe Harbor

ESCANABA — Singer-songwriter Phil Lynch will debut his fourth album, "Growing, Older: Songs for the Second Act," with a free album launch concert this Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church (819 1st Ave S. in Escanaba). While the concert has no admission charge, a free-will ...

Gladstone School Board appoints Huber

GLADSTONE -- Joseph Huber, father of two, was appointed to the Gladstone Area Schools Board of Education this week following Joanna Wilbee-Amis’s resignation last month. Usually, school board members are chosen through elections, but since a seat was opened when Wilbee-Amis resigned ...

Escanaba Upper Elementary prioritizes student mental health

ESCANABA - A steady decline in discipline referrals and a growing emphasis on student mental health were highlighted at Monday’s meeting of the Escanaba School Board, where members heard a detailed report on updates and initiates at the Escanaba Upper Elementary from Principal Craig ...

One shovelful at a time

ESCANABA -- In a yard in Woodland Estates in Escanaba stands an impermanent fortress, erected this winter out of snow. Its creator, Nathan Arnold, said that it’s taken all winter, about ten minutes at a time, to amass the mountain of snow and carve a structure out of it with a shovel and a ...