GLADSTONE – A local brewery and lavender company teamed up with best-selling author J.L. Hyde on Tuesday to celebrate the release of Hyde’s newest novel, drawing readers from across the country to downtown Gladstone. The well-attended book release party, hosted by Saunders Point ...
ESCANABA — Local P.E.O. Chapter EE recently awarded its annual scholarships to Bay College students Destiny Lopez and Riley Flynn, supporting their continued pursuit of higher education. Lopez, a resident of Escanaba, was selected as the recipient of the Ruthie Vinette Scholarship, named in ...
ESCANABA — Bay College has announced an exhibition, Tim Cleary, Façade (To Face), comming to the Besse Gallery. On display October 6-November 19, 2026. There will be an Artist talk October 15 at 2 p.m. at the exhibit. Tim Cleary grew up standing over a compass rose in northern Michigan. ...
ESCANABA — Registration is now open for businesses, organizations and individuals who want to participate in the fourth annual Escanaba Spooktacular Trunk-or-Treat, set for Sunday, Oct. 18, in downtown Escanaba. Hosted by the Escanaba Downtown Development Authority, the event will take ...
MARQUETTE — The year 2026 marks the first year of the Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival, a weekend-long event celebrating traditional arts running from Oct. 2-4 in various locations around Marquette County. "Traditional folk arts are art forms or crafts that are learned in an informal environment, from artist to artist, rather than in an educational institution," says the Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival. "Some examples would be part of a quilting bee, a folk song circle, or a father teaching a son to carve duck decoys. It is a creative tradition that is passed from one person, or ...
Iron Mountain — The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $4,307,692 million in grants to seven community organizations that provide suicide prevention services to Veterans in Michigan and Wisconsin. This funding is part of $112 million in grants awarded to 191 organizations nationwide to support suicide prevention efforts. The funds are made available through the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (SSG Fox SPGP) and will become available at the start of fiscal year 2027. Grants are accessible to nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, ...
