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DNR Announces $3.6 Million To Fight Invasive Species
The Michigan departments of Environmental Quality, Natural Resources, and Agriculture and Rural Development today announced that more than two dozen projects will share $3.6 million in Michigan Invasi...
Jack Hall Dec 19, 2018

University of Michigan Unveils County Poverty Map
The University of Michigan's poverty and well-being map shows modest improvements across most of Michigan. Statewide, the median income rose $2,832, the poverty rate dropped 1.1 percent and child pove...
Jack Hall Dec 19, 2018

Gov.-Elect Whitmer Announces Inauguration Schedule
Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer will be sworn in as Michigan's 49th governor on January 1, 2019. The ceremony, including the oath of office, will take place outside of the Capitol building in Lansing ...
Jack Hall Dec 19, 2018

UPPCO Lowering Water Levels In Local Hydro Dams
Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) will begin lowering water levels at its hydroelectric reservoirs in anticipation of melting snow and precipitation during the spring of 2019. These water level ch...
Jack Hall Dec 19, 2018

New Scholarship Fund Set Up At Bay College
A new scholarship to support Bay College students was recently developed by Diane and Bill Bennett of Escanaba. Diane is a retired nursing instructor, teaching heath care courses at Bay College over a...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

Environmentalists Oppose Wednesday's Straits Meeting
Wednesday's meeting of the so-called Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority is a sham. It wastes the public's money and time and should be delayed until a new governor and attorney general, with the supp...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

Army Corps Awards Ontonagon Harbor Dredging Contract
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, awards a contract for maintenance dredging in the Ontonagon Harbor. King Company, Inc. from Holland, Michigan, was awarded a more than $1.1 million ...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

State Orders Copper Country Taxi Service Shut Down
LARA's Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau (CSCL) issued a cease and desist order against A2B Cab, Russell Chambers, owner (respondent), in Laurium for operating as a taxicab ca...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

OSF Employees 'Adopt' Families For Holiday Season
OSF HealthCare St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group employees enjoyed another year of giving this Christmas season. Staff from more than a dozen departments throughout the Hospital, Medical Group ...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

Wisconsin Manufacturer To Expand Into Upper Perninsula
Waupaca Foundry, Inc., a manufacturer of high-quality cast and machined iron components for the transportation and industrial markets, plans to expand in the city of Ironwood, the Michigan Economic De...
Jack Hall Dec 18, 2018

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