LANSING – Five Upper Peninsula correctional facilities are offering an increased pay rate of approximately $10,000 per year for new corrections officer recruits as the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) seeks to address persistent staffing shortages. Under the department’s Safe ...
m ESCANABA -- Students at Lemmer Elementary School are earning tokens for literature. The school, which has a present enrollment of 277 first- and second-graders, recently obtained a book vending machine, purchased with funds raised by the Parent Teacher Organization. The idea had been ...
A 21-year-old Niagara, Wis., man was killed Thursday when the motorcycle he was operating collided with an SUV pulling a trailer on U.S. 2 near Baler Drive in Breitung Township, according to the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the crash at 2:19 p.m. and a preliminary ...
ESCANABA — The Results are in from the 5th Annual Soo Line Steam Engine #730 Golf Scramble Fundraiser that was held on May 28th at the Escanaba Country Club. Congratulations to the winning team with a score of 58 on the Par 72 course. The winning team sponsored by the Walt Houghton Jr. ...
FORD RIVER — The Ford River Lions Club recently welcomed two new members to its growing family tradition of service and community involvement. Scott Pendergraft, Sr. proudly presented a Lions Club membership certificate to his daughter, Brooklyn Pendergraft, during a recent club gathering. ...
MENOMINEE — West Shore Fishing Museum is open for the summer on Saturdays and Sundays through September 6. The first event is the annual perennial plant sale on June 6 and 7 from 1:00 to 4:00, Central Time. Available will be: Siberian Iris, many cultivars of daylilies, Canna and Calla ...