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Community

Jefferson honored with Delta Force Alum Lighthouse Award

The Daily Press recognized an outstanding community leader at this year’s chamber annual dinner Oct. 9, presenting the 2025 Delta Force Outstanding Alum Lighthouse Award to Kelly Jefferson, president of OSF St. Francis Hospital and Medical Group and a 2010 Delta Force graduate. The ...

Bay, Grand Rapids colleges program receive national workforce award

ESCANABA/IRON MOUNTAIN – Bay College, in partnership with Grand Rapids Community College and the City of Grand Rapids, is proud to announce its collaborative Water to Work Internship program has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 National Council for Workforce Education Exemplary ...

October a great time to get out at night

ESCANABA — October nights are for the full moon, prancing bucks, warm flannel and owls. Bow hunters and bear hunters know the magic of sundown in the autumn woods. The Upper Peninsula’s fall time woodlands take on an enchanted look. Crimson maples leaves float, milkweed pollen flies, ...

Ferguson art on display at Bay’s Hartwig Gallery

ESCANABA – Bay College's Hartwig Gallery is featuring "Equivalence," an exhibition by artist Linda King Ferguson. A reception and artist talk has been set for 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Hartwig Gallery. The gallery is free and open to the public. Linda King Ferguson, born in 1954 in ...

MTU has ribbon cutting for new East Hall

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University had a ceremonial opening of East Hall with a ribbon cutting Friday. The new hall allows 500 upper class students a place to live. The building features collaborative study rooms, fitness spaces, a game room, lounge areas and kitchenettes. The ...

Harvest time

L’ANSE — The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Natural Resources Department and the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College had the annual Manoomin (wild rice) Camp on Saturday to introduce traditional and modern process of ricing and educate participants of the crop’s cultural ...