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Upgrades on Escanaba water tower completed

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ESCANABA — This year’s work on the south water tower in Escanaba, accomplished through grant funding, is complete. Improvements to the structure at First Avenue North and North 21st Street — painted with the face of the local school mascot, “Mo,” on the west side and black capital ...

Some new touches to Gladstone’s Old Fashioned Christmas event

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GLADSTONE — Gladstone Downtown Development Authority will partner with DTE Energy to sponsor the annual Gladstone’s Old Fashioned Christmas, a city tradition that dates back decades. The event will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, at the city-owned parking lot on Delta ...

Michigan Senate passes reforms on collecting petition signatures

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The fight against election disinformation and changes to Michigan’s petition circulation process cleared the upper chamber of the state Legislature on Thursday. Senators moved the legislative package with bipartisan support. Among the bills were Senate Bill 529, Senate Bill 530 and ...

Pranks and other traditions that make deer camp

Community

ESCANABA -- When most people think about deer season in Upper Michigan, they think about serious stuff. Words like licenses, bullets, vacation days, property lines and plat books are thrown around. An image of a bearded, beer-drinking and card-playing tough guy comes to mind. Today I’d ...

Finder to get back Edmund Fitzgerald wreck relic from state

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DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit that was completely unrelated to the doomed freighter. Larry Orr is getting one of the ship's ...

Research shows how invasive worms changing UP forest soils

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LANSING – In a recent study measuring the body size and growth patterns of invasive earthworms in the Huron Mountains, researchers uncovered their role in disrupting forest ecosystems. Contrary to popular belief, the majority of earthworms in North America are invasive species, ...