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Recipes wanted for cooking show at Island

HARRIS — Do you have a holiday recipe that everyone raves about? Here’s your chance to have it showcased on stage at the third-annual “Taste of the Island” Cooking Show – Holiday Edition, taking place Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Island Resort & Casino, W399 U.S. 2 in Harris. The ...

Betty Carmody celebrates 100th birthday

ESCANABA — A party celebrating Betty Carmody's 100th birthday took place at LakeHouse Escanaba on Sunday. Her only son, Thomas ("Tom") Carmody Jr., organized the festivities. Betty Jane Pilon was born on Nov. 24, 1925, and grew up near the Escanaba River in Wells. She met the man who would ...

Lola Gendron

GLADSTONE — Jalyn Dagenais-Gendron and Kevin Gendron of Gladstone, a daughter, Lola Lou, born at 4:55 p.m. July 31, 2025, at OSF St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba. Weight was 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and she was 19 inches long. Lola joins her sister, Gigi, at home. Grandparents are Mike and Lisa ...

Bridger Bishop

WELLS — Lauren (Moore) and Zachary Bishop of Wells, a son, Bridger Michael, born at 5:47 a.m. Nov. 11, 2025, at OSF St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba. Weight was 7 pounds, 3.7 ounces; length was 19 inches. He joins a sister, Olivia, at home. Grandparents are Lynn and the late David Moore ...

A frosty November morning brings peace

“For them who think death’s honesty won’t fall upon ’em naturally, life sometimes must get lonely,” – Bob Dylan In the frosty mornings on these November days, with the orange-red sun burning through the crystalline ice and frost like a laser, I find an honest peace and headspace ...