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Lawmakers consider tax credit for family caregivers

LANSING – Michigan lawmakers have proposed an income tax credit for family caregivers facing financial burdens from tending to loved ones. AARP Michigan has been pushing the proposal that would give eligible caregivers a tax credit of up to 30% of their qualified expenses for family care services. The organization “is supporting legislation which would provide a maximum $2,000 non-refundable tax credit to family caregivers with out-of-pocket costs while caring for a loved one,” said Jason Lachowski, the associate state director of government affairs for AARP Michigan. The ...

Expos continue at fairground

ESCANABA -- Two events that began Friday are again open to guests at the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday. One, the Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo, occupies the Ruth Butler Building and serves to provide people who love the outdoors with equipment and ...

City backs volunteer effort to restore Escanaba street markers

ESCANABA — A group of local volunteers received official city approval of their efforts to restore and repaint Escanaba's street markers. Last summer, Monte Morrison and the late Kevin Chown began restoring the street markers that remained from the original 660 placed in town as part of ...

Daggett man sentenced to decades in prison for CSC

MENOMINEE — A Daggett man has been sentenced to decades in prison after sexually assaulting his then-girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter. Travis Scott Thiry, 45, was sentenced in the Menominee County 41st Circuit Court on Friday to concurrent terms of 25 to 75 years in prison with credit ...

Body recovered

CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP — The person who was swept off Blackrocks in Marquette by a wave during intense conditions on Thursday was found deceased Friday morning. The 62-year-old man from the Calumet area was knocked down and pulled out into the lake shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday in what the ...

Bay College trustees may shuffle

ESCANABA — Four people ran for three full-term seats on the Bay de Noc Community College Board of Trustees, while a partial term had two certified write-in candidates. One of the write-in candidates for the partial term was also on the ballot for a full term. Cory Kuchenberg, Nicholas ...