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Statewide ‘Pothole Payback’ contest awards Soo resident $800

Local News

SAULT STE. MARIE — Costly vehicle damage caused by potholes remains a frustration for many Michigan drivers, but one Sault Ste. Marie resident recently received compensation through a statewide contest. Malcom Cohoon was named one of five winners for the month of April during the ...

Drug bust in Delta County

Local News

ESCANABA -- After about a roughly 18-month investigation, law enforcement arrested a local 34-year-old man and seized drugs and cash from both his Escanaba home and another location in Gladstone. Detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET) had been investigating ...

Sail school rentals, brewery events approved

Local News

GLADSTONE -- It was a lengthy agenda for Monday's regular meeting of the Gladstone City Commission. The DATA millage, special events at Saunders Point Brewing and fundraising actions for the Gladstone Sail School featured heavily. SAIL SCHOOL The building erected by volunteers and the ...

Michigan considers assisted suicide

Regional News

LANSING – A bill introduced by House Democrats would allow qualified patients to request medically-assisted death. Medically-assisted death – also known as medically-assisted suicide, medical aid in dying and physician-assisted death – involves patients taking a lethal medication ...

Soderman awarded Public Power scholarship

Local News

GLADSTONE -- Each year, member-owned WPPI Energy, which supplies electric power to the City of Gladstone, awards a scholarship to a local teen. This year's winner was 12th-grader Tyler Soderman from Gladstone Area High School, who wrote a stand-out essay. "Each year, WPPI provides funds to ...

Gallows built along M-28, generating controversy

Local News

MARQUETTE — Last week, Tom Pegenau, owner of Pegenau Builders, set up a wooden gallows structure with a noose outside of the Pegenau Builders business on M-28 in Chocolay Township, later painted with the words “bureaucrats,” “justice” and “freedom,” along with a banner reading ...