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YMCA Delta Center partners with Fatovic for Summer Soccer Day Camp

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ESCANABA — The YMCA Delta Center is excited to announce the upcoming Summer Soccer Day Camp, taking place June 15 to 19 at the soccer fields behind the YMCA (2000 North 30th Street, Escanaba). This special camp will be led by Alex Fatovic, head men’s soccer coach at Northern Michigan University, and his coaching staff. Designed for youth of all skill levels, the Summer Soccer Day Camp offers a fun, engaging, and development-focused environment where participants will build fundamental soccer skills, learn game strategies and strengthen teamwork—all while staying active and making ...

America at 250: West Virginia born amid chaos of Civil War

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Editor’s note: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western counties remained loyal to the Union and refused to follow eastern Virginia into rebellion. This led to one of the most remarkable chapters in American history. Meeting in what was then Wheeling, Va., delegates from these western counties declared that Virginia’s secession was illegal and established ...

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Editor’s note: The Daily Press, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in building America. For this week’s “America at 250” story, see page ...