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Thursday, February 6, 2025
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 Paint the Plow program. This program offers a unique opportunity for MDOT to partner with area schools, using students’ creativity to communicate safe winter driving practices for all Michigan residents. The Paint the Plow program […]
Rudyard Area Schools, with more than 600 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, has employed a 14-month-old male yellow Labrador retriever, and his handler, Carlos Molina. Molina is a Rudyard resident and 2016 Rudyard graduate who helped lead the district to a district title in basketball and to the semifinals […]
BAY MILLS — Bay Mills Indian Community will host a screening of the documentary Bad River: A Story of Defiance on Friday, March 15 at 7 p.m. The movie will take place at Lake Superior State University’s Arts Center in Sault Ste. Marie. This event is free and open to […]
Beginning April 6, a new patient portal, called MyChart, will replace the current MHealth (Meditech) portal for all future portal transactions such as self-scheduling, viewing your medical records or test results, messaging your provider, refilling prescriptions, online bill pay and more. Read on to learn how you can access your new […]
ALPENA COUNTY, MI. On Monday, March 11, 2024, at approximately 7:48 p.m. troopers from theMichigan State Police (MSP) Alpena Post were called to a report of a two-vehicle personal injury crash onUS-23 Hwy between North Partridge Point Rd and South Partridge Point Rd in Alpena Township. Theinitial investigation revealed a […]
On Thursday 3-7-2024 near mid-day the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a remote area near Paradise, Mi for a missing persons complaint. A man was searching for his friend and found his vehicle stuck on a trail in the snow. His friend was nowhere to be found and […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan will open the Poe Lock to all marine traffic at 6 p.m. on March 22, marking the start of the 2024 Great Lakes shipping season. The shipping industry requested an early season opening due the urging of […]
Lawmakers in Lansing began considering bills last week that would allow the state to partner with a private manufacturer to produce and distribute low-cost generic insulin. The state House Health Policy Committee heard testimony from the backers of two bills that would require the Michigan Strategic Fund to create an […]
Updated guidelines for co-management of fishery resources in parts of Michigan’s Great Lakes are now in effect for the next 24 years. The new Great Lakes Fishing Decree was approved Aug. 24, 2023, by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. In the months since the decree’s […]
On June 26th 2023, Mackinac County Sheriffs Deputies received information that an 18-year-old Portage Township man was engaged in an inappropriate online relationship with a 12-year-old female in a suburb of Austin, TX. During the course of the investigation, Sheriffs Deputies determined Kelton Paul Salowitz of Curtis, MI had been […]