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United We Thrive!

America’s 250th anniversary has given us plenty of opportunities this year to celebrate our nation’s history, but it has also given us an opportunity to think about what has always made communities like ours strong. And, quite simply, it’s each other. That seems like the perfect sentiment as we begin making plans for the Delta County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, presented by OSF HealthCare ~ St. Francis Hospital and Medical Group, scheduled for Thursday, October 8, at the Island Resort & Casino. We carried the America 250 celebration into this year’s U.P. State Fair ...

Judge upholds property sale to developers

ESCANABA — The future of a parcel in Escanaba recently came before the Delta County 47th Circuit Court, where the Bishop Noa Home for Senior Citizens challenged the City of Escanaba’s sale of the property to Old State Development. The nursing home argued the city was prohibited from ...

The end is in sight

ESCANABA -- After much anticipation, the streetscape project on Ludington Street is almost complete. The road should be fully open to traffic before Sept. 15, said Escanaba Water Superintendent Jeff Lampi at a meeting on Wednesday. Held at City Hall, the session was the latest in a series of ...

Tucker wins Pet Idol

ESCANABA — The votes are tallied, and the runaway winner of this year's Pet Idol contest was Tucker the Yorkshire Terrier. The reader-determined contest coordinated by the Daily Press asked pet owners to submit photo entries, with one winner ultimately becoming the following year's mascot for Newspapers in Education (NIE). The fees collected — five dollars for each submission and fifty cents for each vote — were divided evenly between NIE, the program that sends newspapers to local schools, and the Delta Animal Shelter, the area's no-kill, open-admission shelter. The contest ...