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One week only: UP North Roast’s special fair blend returns

ESCANABA — A coffee blend available for just one week each year is returning to the Upper Peninsula State Fair, giving fairgoers a chance to take home a taste they won’t find elsewhere. UP North Roast owners Jake and Julia Cass have created the two-bean U.P. State Fair Blend ...

Magnificent Michigamme Highlands

MARQUETTE -- Among the wildest of Michigan's wild places, the rugged Michigamme Highlands has some of the most important natural geography in the Great Lakes region. Made up of vast forests, sparkling lakes, winding trout streams and granite outcroppings, the landscape is truly ...

Painted tales at Canterbury

ESCANABA — One business in downtown Escanaba has gotten a decorative addition recently, loosely in honor of its 60th birthday. At Canterbury Book Store, Jesse Traub and Rebecca Bender — who have owned the place since 2018 — hired local artist Lauren Hovland to paint a mural on the ...

Jury trial set for Rapid River man accused of drunken-driving death

ESCANABA — A jury trial has been scheduled for a Rapid River man who is charged with second-degree murder and other felonies in connection with an alleged drunken-driving crash in 2025. David Brandon Abruzzo, 46, faces one felony count of second-degree murder; one felony count of ...