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Bay College recognized as veteran-friendly

ESCANABA — Bay de Noc Community College has been officially recognized as a Gold-Level Veteran-Friendly School by the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency for the 2025–2026 academic year. This prestigious designation — the highest level in the state’s Veteran-Friendly Schools Program — ...

Fifty years later, author separates Edmund Fitzgerald fact from folklore

Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...

Council OKs railroad tie processing site plan

ESCANABA – Escanaba City Council on Thursday approved the proposed site plan for a temporary railroad tie processing facility at 2172 N. 30th St. The Planning Commission on Oct. 27 had done the same on the site plan application submitted by Cornerstone Environmental Group – a Tetra Tech ...

Schoolcraft hospital offering free meals to SNAP families

MANISTIQUE – Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital announced this week a new community initiative aimed at supporting local families affected by recent benefit changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as well as government workers hit by the shutdown. SMH on Monday opened ...

Schools to have programs Tuesday honoring veterans

ESCANABA – A number of area schools plan special programs Tuesday to mark Veterans Day, many of them open to the public. They will include: — North Central Elementary, W5465 Third St. in Hermansville, will host the American Legion for a Veterans Day Assembly in the gym at 9:30 a.m. ...

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP payments

BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the ...