ESCANABA — Homelessness isn't a distant issue. “I get the phone calls constantly, all the time, from ‘I don’t know where to go’ to ‘Me and my children are sleeping in our car,’” said Teresa Boscarino, executive director of the Abundant Life Mission shelter in Menominee. ...
ESCANABA — Several Upper Peninsula lawmakers are seeking to rename a stretch of U.S. 41 in Menominee County to honor a soldier killed in Iraq in 2007: Spc. David Anthony Wilkey Jr., who was raised in Wilson and still has family in the area. Michigan House Bill No. 4351, introduced in April ...
ESCANABA — Peter Frank of Escanaba recently received his "BaccaLOOPerate" degree from America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association. The AGLCA bestowed Frank with the honor to recognize his completion of one of the world’s most unique adventures, America’s Great Loop. Boaters doing ...
ESCANABA — The Escanaba High School Fine Arts Department is preparing for a musical that opens to the public Friday with its first performance at 7:30 p.m. Subsequent shows will be at the same time on Nov. 22, 24 and 25, along with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Nov. 23. Tickets are on sale ...
In the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the woods meet the waters and tradition runs as deep as our lakes, the UP Steam and Gas Association has spent half a century keeping history alive — not just in memory, but in motion. It was an honor for me, on behalf of the U.P. State ...
HOUGHTON COUNTY — What began as a medical emergency in August turned into a heartwarming reunion yesterday when Trooper Lucas Lahnala of the Michigan State Police Calumet Post met with Rosie Danley, the woman whose life he helped save. While camping in a Hancock area campground this past ...