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Opinion

Appreciated Edmund Fitzgerald program

Editorial

This week's bouquets go to — From Janet Lindstrom, Escanaba: Dear Players de Noc — Your performance of Nov. 10 was so moving and informative. It was so well done and as you showed the pictures of each man lost in the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and rang the bell, it became ...

Democrats won victory in defeat

Local columns

In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operation "a miracle of deliverance." Historians portray it as a perfect example of victory in defeat. Democrats raging at eight members of their ...

Almanac for Nov. 15, 2025

Local columns

Today is Saturday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 2025. There are 46 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began their "March to the Sea" from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of Savannah, ...

Michigan steps up recycling effort for fourth straight year

Editorial

While most in the Upper Peninsula will think of Saturday as the opening of firearm deer season, it has another designation as well this year: America Recycles Day in Michigan. In making the proclamation, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pointed to data that show the state’s recycling rate is at an ...