Category Archives: News

FIRE FOLLOW-UP: Escanaba DDA Director Reflects On Personal, City Losses
CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL'S INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG WOERPEL, ESCANABA DDA DIRECTOR More than a week after a fire devastated the 1000 block of Escanaba's Ludington Street, the director of the Escanaba Downt...
Jack Hall Feb 01, 2024

Upper Peninsula 200 Sled Dog Races Canceled Due To Lack Of Snow
Due to deteriorating trail conditions and concern for the safety of mushers and dogs, the UP200 has canceled the UP200, Midnight Run and Jack Pine 30 scheduled for February 16-18, 2024. "Sled dog race...
Jack Hall Feb 01, 2024

Bay College Taking Nominations For Outstanding Educator Awards
Bay College is accepting nominations for the 2024 Outstanding Educators and Employees Awards. Each year the College recognizes up to three full-time and three part-time instructors as outstanding educ...
Jack Hall Feb 01, 2024

Superior Health Foundation Taking Applications For Indigent Care Fund
The Superior Health Foundation is now accepting grant applications for its Indigent Care Fund. SHF will award nearly $58,000 at its spring grant celebration in April. Qualified health-centered, non-pr...
Jack Hall Feb 01, 2024

Iron Mountain VA Medical Center Housing Homeless Veterans
As part of VA's nationwide homelessness goals for 2023, the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center has permanently housed 60 homeless Veterans, meeting and exceeding its local goal by more than 42%. These...
Jack Hall Feb 01, 2024

Downtown Escanaba Picking Up The Pieces One Week After Devastating Fire
A spaghetti fundraiser will be held Friday for the 24 artists at the East Ludington Art Gallery displaced by the fire last week in downtown Escanaba. The gallery has been an association of artists in ...
Jack Hall Jan 31, 2024

Longtime Superior Health Foundation Director Lajoie Announces Retirement
The Superior Health Foundation will soon have a new executive director. Jim LaJoie, who has served as the non-profit organization's executive director since its inception on Sept. 1, 2012, is retiring...
Jack Hall Jan 30, 2024

Northern Michigan University Kicking Off 125th Anniversary Celebration
Northern Michigan University invites students, faculty, staff, alumni and Upper Peninsula residents to submit original alma mater compositions in recognition of its 125th anniversary celebration in 20...
Jack Hall Jan 30, 2024

Bay College Student Art Exhibit Opens Tuesday On Escanaba Campus
Bay College announces an exhibition, From the Collection: Student Works, on display in the Hartwig Gallery. This exhibition features student work that is in Bay College's permanent collection and will...
Jack Hall Jan 30, 2024

Financial Assistance Available For U.P. Seniors Raising Relative's Children
CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL'S INTERVIEW WITH DARREN YOUNG, UPCAP If you're 55 or over and caring for someone else's child, there is some financial help available through the UPCAP "Kinship Program." Darre...
Jack Hall Jan 30, 2024

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Longtime Downtown Escanaba Brewpub, Steakhouse Closing In October
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Northern Michigan University Selling Broadband Internet Service For $21 Million
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