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Bay and NMU establish direct admission program

ESCANABA & IRON MOUNTAIN – Bay de Noc Community College (Bay College) and Northern Michigan University (NMU) have entered into a Direct Admission Program agreement designed to make the transition from community college to a bachelor’s degree more seamless for students across Michigan’s ...

Bark River Lions donate to Dream Maker Children’s Museum

ESCANABA — The Dream Maker Childrens Museum was recently presented a $10,000 check courtesy of the Bark River Lions Club. This generous donation kicks off the renovation campaign that will pave the way to opening the doors of the museum, at the former Carnegie Library. There is a lot of work ...

Menards food drive

ESCANABA — Local Menards across the midwest are serving as local drop points for local food pantries this October. This includes the Menards in Escanaba. Menards is serving as a drop-off point for the Escanaba Salvation Army. Cans and other non-perichable food items can be dropped off at ...

Fentanyl felony sentence issued

ESCANABA — A young Wilson man, Colton Brunette, was sentenced Monday to six months in Delta County Jail and two years of probation following a guilty plea in August to one felony count of conspiracy to commit controlled substance - delivery/manufacture. The case arose from an October 2024 ...

Federal grant of $5.2M to fund western UP nickel exploration

BARAGA — A $5.2 million federal grant will help fund high-grade nickel and copper exploration at the LM Property in the western Upper Peninsula. Trans Superior Resources, a Michigan-based subsidiary for Canadian company Bitterroot Resources Ltd, received U.S. Department of War funding available through the Defense Production Act Title II program, according to a news release from InvestUP. The funding will help Trans Superior Resources with exploratory drilling, geophysical and geochemical surveys, permitting and other work in the Baraga Basin, a mineral-rich area spanning across ...

Just 1 in 4 Michigan juniors are ‘college ready,’ SAT scores indicate

Michigan slipped once again this year in college readiness, as measured by how well high school students perform on the SAT. According to the latest results, only a fourth of 11th graders in Michigan are college ready, a slight dip from 26.6% last year. A decade ago, it was 35%. "It's true that SAT scores are only one predictor of college readiness," said Charlotte Pierce, senior policy analyst at EdTrust-Midwest, which released a report earlier this year about the need for more rigorous coursework. "However, these results align with other concerning opportunity gaps we see across ...