A week to celebrate the region’s forest products
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joins the nation in celebrating Sunday through Saturday as Forest Products Week. Wisconsin has 17 million acres of public and private forested land that provides raw material to the forest products industry, the DNR states in a news release. Forest Products Week recognizes the people who work in and care for our forests, the industry workers who make the forest products we depend on and the many ways forest products contribute to Wisconsin’s economy and quality of life. “From paper products such as food packaging, fine writing paper ...
Who were police looking for in Seney Township?
Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week. We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps buried decades ago. What we don’t know is whose remains they sought or what case all of this was in connection to. Of course, area coffee shops and social media platforms have been abuzz with speculation. A number of people have posited that Jimmy Hoffa, the long, lost ex-president of the ...
Focus next week on driver behavior around school buses
To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols next week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted Monday through Friday of next week in conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week. Participating police agencies will work with their local school districts during this week to provide education and enforcement for their communities. OSS enforcement efforts will focus on drivers who ignore the flashing red lights ...
