×

Local News

Drug bust in Delta County

ESCANABA -- After about a roughly 18-month investigation, law enforcement arrested a local 34-year-old man and seized drugs and cash from both his Escanaba home and another location in Gladstone. Detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET) had been investigating ...

Sail school rentals, brewery events approved

GLADSTONE -- It was a lengthy agenda for Monday's regular meeting of the Gladstone City Commission. The DATA millage, special events at Saunders Point Brewing and fundraising actions for the Gladstone Sail School featured heavily. SAIL SCHOOL The building erected by volunteers and the ...

Hacked!

HOUGHTON — Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) used by Michigan Technological University students and faculty, and institutions across the nation, was hacked Thursday. Those who used the website across the country in K-12 school and universities found a ransom note ...

Gallows built along M-28, generating controversy

MARQUETTE — Last week, Tom Pegenau, owner of Pegenau Builders, set up a wooden gallows structure with a noose outside of the Pegenau Builders business on M-28 in Chocolay Township, later painted with the words “bureaucrats,” “justice” and “freedom,” along with a banner reading ...

Soderman awarded Public Power scholarship

GLADSTONE -- Each year, member-owned WPPI Energy, which supplies electric power to the City of Gladstone, awards a scholarship to a local teen. This year's winner was 12th-grader Tyler Soderman from Gladstone Area High School, who wrote a stand-out essay. "Each year, WPPI provides funds to ...

Razing on Lincoln

ESCANABA -- After the property and building on the site was transferred from Anders Company to TMart just shy of two weeks ago, demolition of the strip mall that had been known as Lincoln Square commenced Monday. The new owners aim to build a new, 2,400-square-foot structure that will house ...