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Dr. Mary L. Cretens Endowment Fund donation

Community Foundation for Delta County Board of Trustee Members, Mr. Nick Chenier and Mr. Brian Pahnke present a check from the Dr. Mary L. Cretens Endowment Fund as part of her annual distribution to Gladstone Senior Citizens Nonprofit Corporation President, Ms. Carol Lauscher and Treasurer, ...

Heart of Gold aims for radiation at OSF

ESCANABA — The annual "Heart of Gold" fundraising dinner for OSF Healthcare Foundation was held last week to collect proceeds for raise critical support for enhanced radiation therapy services at the Escanaba hospital. At present, OSF HealthCare St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group is ...

UP communities collect winter coats

LANSING – With biting temperatures making their annual return and people beginning to grab for their heavy coats, Upper Peninsula communities are working to make coats available to those who need them. For example, the State Police typically has an annual coat drive, the Baraga County ...

War against invasive

SKANDIA -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service applied lampricide to the Chocolay River this week, as part of a larger, decades-long effort to control the population of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Sea lamprey are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but spread to the Great Lakes in the late 19th and early 20th century thanks to the development of the Great Lakes shipping industry and the bypassing of Niagara Falls. According to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, sea lampreys were first spotted in Lake Erie in 1921 and had arrived in Lake Superior by 1938. Sea lamprey have a ...

Talent agency signs young local dancer

ESCANABA — An 11-year-old Bark River girl who has traveled around the country to dance competitively was recently signed with a Los Angeles talent agency. Zoey Zambon, daughter of Ashley and Andy Zambon, began dancing at the age of three. She has taken all types of classes available at ...

Festival success in damp downtown

GLADSTONE — The inaugural Great Gladstone Harvest Festival had a turnout that impressed participants and organizers, considering the rain and the fact that the Packers played the Lions the same afternoon. During the Halloween-focused event hosted in the downtown business district on ...