Category Archives: News

Dickinson-Iron Health Department Offering COVID Vaccine Boosters
The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department is offering "booster shots" for all three of the vaccine brands: Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. You need to make an appointment and come into...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

COVID Vaccine Clinic Scheduled Saturday On NMU Campus
The Marquette County Health Department is urging people in certain categories to get a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. This following recent federal approval of "booster shots" for people aged 65 ...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

State Christmas Tree To Be Cut Down Wednesday In Marenisco
The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget will coordinate the harvest of the official 2021 state Christmas tree Wednesday along US-2 in the western U.P. town of Marenisco. The 63-...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

Late-Night Closures On Portage Lift Bridge Continue Into November
Contractors for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be performing work requiring early morning closures of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge between Houghton and Hancock over the next thr...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

Engineered Machine Products Sold To European Company
EMP leadership has today announced to employees, customers, and suppliers that the Company has strategically agreed to be acquired by Concentric AB, a Swedish based company headquartered in the United...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

Whitmer Moves Michigan Toward Vaccinating 5-To-11 Year-Olds
Governor Gretchen Whitmer today issued an executive directive to state departments and agencies to expedite the ordering and distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric coronavirus vaccinations to p...
Jack Hall Oct 26, 2021

U.P. Man Sentenced For Meth, Trying To Bite Trooper's Hand
Isaac Jacob Trottier, 30, of Bark River, MI was sentenced on October 18, 2021, to 18 months to 20 years in prison following the entry of a plea to Possession of Methamphetamine and Assaulting/Resistin...
Jack Hall Oct 25, 2021

Upper Peninsula Adds 185 New Cases; 47 People In Hospital With COVID
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced 7,856 new positive coronavirus test results and 27 new COVID-related deaths over the three-day period of Saturday, Sunday, and ...
Jack Hall Oct 25, 2021

Kirtland Warbler Bird Population Increasing In Upper Peninsula
State and federal agencies and droves of volunteers have partnered to count Michigan's Kirtland's warbler population. The agencies recently announced that surveys conducted in June show the small song...
Jack Hall Oct 25, 2021

Gaylord Man Gets Prison For Wildlife Violations, Drunk Driving
A Gaylord man was recently convicted in Otesego County Circuit Court on several charges ranging from wildlife and felony weapons violations to third-offense drunken driving and being a habitual offend...
Jack Hall Oct 25, 2021

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