ESCANABA -- Music Mondays, a weekday evening highlight that many Escanaba residents and live music fans look forward to, are almost over. One last show is on the schedule: Marrier Orchestra Revival, whose performance intended for July 13 was cancelled due to extreme heat. The weekly summer ...
DELTA COUNTY -- Saturday might be last day of National Farmers Market Week, but gatherings of outdoor vendors continue as summer chugs along. In Rapid River, a farmers market is held on Mondays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. at Masonville Township Park. Hosted under a covered pavilion, the ...
LANSING -- Voters across Michigan expressed support for local road millages during Tuesday’s primary election, approving 92% of new millages and 96% of renewal proposals on local ballots, according to data provided by Lansing-based Gongwer News Service. Residents in counties, cities, villages and townships voted to continue or expand their investment in local roads to complement the additional state dollars pledged from the 2025 Road Funding Package. A total of 156 local road millage proposals -- 107 renewals and 50 increases -- appeared on ballots across the state. That number ...
Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada's massive summer wildfires and in turn angered U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a study released Thursday. And fire and climate scientists said Trump, who has talked about punishing Canada for poor fire management and sending days of choking smoke across the border, should look more in the mirror than up north when it comes to blame. They point to the United States' huge historical emissions of heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and gas. The fire ...
ESCANABA — In the early morning hours on Wednesday, firefighters with the Escanaba Department of Public Safety were called to a blaze in which one person was injured and one animal died. At 4:28 a.m., Delta County Central Dispatch advised Public Safety that they had received a call about a ...
ESCANABA — Unofficial results are in for the state and local partisan primary elections. Besides Delta County’s millage proposals that were approved by voters Tuesday, Democrat Randolph L. Bjork and Republican Dustin Stempki each ran unopposed for the position of Delta County Road Commissioner and face each other in the November general election. Menominee and Schoolcraft Counties also had various items on their ballots. In Menominee County, three different fire department millage renewals were passed — one in Daggett Township, with 111 votes for the millage renewal and 35 ...
