Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...

ESCANABA – Escanaba City Council on Thursday approved the proposed site plan for a temporary railroad tie processing facility at 2172 N. 30th St. The Planning Commission on Oct. 27 had done the same on the site plan application submitted by Cornerstone Environmental Group – a Tetra Tech ...

MANISTIQUE – Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital announced this week a new community initiative aimed at supporting local families affected by recent benefit changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as well as government workers hit by the shutdown. SMH on Monday opened ...

ESCANABA – A number of area schools plan special programs Tuesday to mark Veterans Day, many of them open to the public. They will include: — North Central Elementary, W5465 Third St. in Hermansville, will host the American Legion for a Veterans Day Assembly in the gym at 9:30 a.m. ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the ...

ESCANABA — Players de Noc will host a stage read Sunday and Monday of a docudrama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. Titled “Ten November,” it was written by Steven Dietz, with music and lyrics by Eric Peltoniemi. The show in Escanaba is ...