ESCANABA — St. Thomas the Apostle Church recently made two donations of $500 each from funds raised during charity games at its weekly bingo nights. The $1,000 total given away was divided between the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots and the Delta County Sheriff Department's Shop ...
ESCANABA — Local theater group Players de Noc recently received a $1,000 donation from the Escanaba branch of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. GFWC had received a request from Players for funds to help cover the cost of replacing the lighting system destroyed in the fire at the ...
IRON RIVER — When Kalee Hernandez of Iron River launched her Upper Peninsula-inspired charcuterie gift box service, CharYooperie, in early December, she had no idea it would take off the way it has. "What started as a small idea has exploded into something the U.P. community has embraced ...
MARQUETTE — Starting in January, more than 100 members of the Marquette Choral Society will be preparing for their April 20 performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Dr. Erin Colwitz will conduct a mass choir, made up of singers from the Upper Peninsula and across the country, along with a professional orchestra and soloists. The singers will perform Mozart’s famed “Kronungsmesse” (also known as the “Coronation Mass”), and then will reprise that work, plus Mozart’s “Vesperae solonnes de confessore,” back in Marquette at Kaufman Auditorium on April 25-26. For ...
ESCANABA/IRON MOUNTAIN — Edie Erickson is Bay College’s TORCH Award recipient for the December to February quarter. Erickson was hired in February 2017 as an instructional designer, a position that develops courses or curriculums and creates training materials, such as teaching manuals ...
