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Briefs for Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026

St. Anthony raffle winner ESCANABA - Sue Pach of Escanaba is the winner of the St. Anthony of Padua calendar raffle for the week of Jan. 12, receiving $100. St. Thomas sets pasty sale ESCANABA — St. Thomas the Apostle Church is hosting a pasty sale today and Thursday. Pasties can be with or without rutabaga. Pickup will be between 3 and 5 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis at the church, 1820 Ninth Ave. N. in Escanaba. Escanaba Eagles breakfast ESCANABA - The Escanaba Eagles 1088 will be serving breakfast at 608 Ludington on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The breakfast is open ...

All’s Fair in Love and Sports?

Dear Annie: One of my good female friends graduated from a rival college of mine. We love talking smack about who has a better football team. When her school loses games, I gloat. One time this year, I said her school had zero chance of winning against my school. I did this level of ...

Reader sounds off on tourism

Dear Heloise: I asked you to remind readers of the environmental harms of tourism travel so that they might consider traveling less. You printed this letter in the Buffalo News, and in your response, you placed most of the blame on global warming and air pollution from fossil fuel companies ...

Deadbeat boyfriend must be cut off

Dear Annie: I have been with a man off and on for seven years. He is my best friend, and I can't live without him. A few years ago, he stole my stimulus check of $1,200, and he brought other women home, claiming he was only doing business with them. He doesn't have a job. I'm paying all the ...

Planting flowers as a remembrance

Dear Heloise: I'm loving all the ideas that you are receiving about flowers and funerals. I just wanted to give you another idea: A dear friend of my mother's sent a planter of bulbs for my mother's funeral this past February. The flowers were beautiful and bright at that time of year, and ...

Briefs for Tuesday, Jan. 13

Change of location for Rotary Club ESCANABA - Today's Rotary Club meeting will be located at Bay College in room 525. This is within the Student Center, next to the Bay Café. If you are parking in Lot D, you can use the bookstore entrance and follow the hallway to the room just past the Café on the right. If you are parking in Lot E, you can walk down the sidewalk toward the courtyard and come into the doors on the left, just past the laundry room. As of right now, it looks like all future meetings will be at Bay College, but in the Joseph Heirman University Center in Room ...