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Celebrating the workforce

ESCANABA — Yesterday, as Americans enjoyed a holiday, the sun shone in Escanaba while large groups representing the area's labor unions marched in a parade from near the Karas Memorial Bandshell in Ludington Park to the Municipal Dock, where a concert and activities followed.

Raising the roof

ESCANABA -- Friday's rain may have kept some people indoors, but the musical performances of "Raise the Roof," a fundraiser for the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, went on. Local bands Wingin' It and The Make-Believe Spurs played on a stage set up in the parking lot west of the arts ...

Trump administration makes another appeal to the Supreme Court to allow mail ballot restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order for the November elections. The legal wrangling is happening even as states start sending out mail ballots, leaving the administration little time to make big changes in mail ballot rules. "Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more States ...

U.P. veterans prepare for 29th Honor Flight to Washington

ESCANABA — Veterans from throughout the Upper Peninsula are preparing to depart from Escanaba for Washington, D.C., Wednesday on the 29th Upper Peninsula Honor Flight mission. 73 veterans — including one woman — who served during the Korean and Vietnam wars are set to board Mission ...