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VanEffen Piano Services still tuning after 55 years

ROCK – Bill VanEffen Piano Services has provided customers in the central and eastern Upper Peninsula with tuning and repair expertise since 1970. When VanEffen was attending Northern Michigan University, Manley Anderson, who owned Delta Music Center, now Jim’s Music in Escanaba, hired ...

Delta chamber welcomes new members

The Delta County Area Chamber of Commerce provides an avenue for our businesspeople to play a leadership role in building a healthy, vibrant community. We are partners to every community, every business and every citizen. When a business joins the Delta County Area Chamber of Commerce, ...

Leaders of Canada, Mexico vow closer economic ties

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Claudia Sheinbaum promised Thursday to strengthen trade relations in the face of U.S. tariff threats and pushed to keep the most important free trade agreement in the Western Hemisphere alive in the lead-up to negotiations ...

Wall Street coasts to finish of latest record-setting week

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street tacked on some more gains Friday as it glided to the finish of its latest record-setting week. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to close out its sixth winning week in the last seven. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 172 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite ...

Ribbon-cutting at remodeled Walmart represents local economic growth

ESCANABA — On Sept. 5, Delta County Chamber of Commerce staff helped the employees and management team at the Escanaba Walmart celebrate the store’s new remodel. It was an exciting day – not simply because of the fresh new “big city” look of the store. It was an exciting day for ...

Expo showcases Great Lakes logging, timber industry

ESCANABA — The Upper Peninsula’s history is deeply tied to lumber processing and harvesting, supporting generations of local loggers and their families, fueling transportation growth and anchored in the Upper Peninsula’s economic development. During the 19th century, Michigan’s ...