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Friday, April 4, 2025
LANSING — Enough is enough. That was the prevailing message at Saturday’s March For Our Lives rally on the steps of the Michigan Capitol, part of a nationwide series of protests. About 500 people gathered in Lansing to demand lawmakers take action to pass stricter gun laws. “How many more (shootings) until our politicians […]
On Wednesday, June 1st, the community of Pickford and the family and friends of Ann Marie Smith gathered to celebrate Ann Marie Smith’s life. Ann Marie Smith was the former librarian of the Pickford Community Library. She passed away on Valentine’s Day in 2020. A memorial service had been planned […]
The bounty of nature has no limits. Along with providing fish and game as nourishment for the body, nature also provides an assortment of flora for a variety of purposes. When we think of flora, we might think of flowers and plants, but trees are plants, too, only large ones. […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI — Oil spilled from an Ontario steel mill into the waterway connecting Lake Superior and Lake Huron is “not recoverable,” said the U.S. Coast Guard. The estimated 5,300 gallons of gear oil spilled at the Algoma Steel mill in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on Thursday, June 9, will […]
BAY MILLS — Economic development continues in Bay Mills, this time with a project geared toward local youth. The Bay Mills Boys & Girls Club received another round of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes […]
BAY MILLS — After years of discussion, a partnership between Bay Mills Indian Community and the US Forest Service has come to fruition. BMIC has entered into an interpretive agreement, which will empower Bay Mills to oversee the operations at Point Iroquois Lighthouse in Brimley, on the shores of Lake […]
MACKINAC ISLAND — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won election four years ago on a promise to “fix the damn roads,” but as she asks voters to re-elect her this fall, the first-term Democrat says she’ll need more time to fulfill that pledge. I’ve “never suggested that in one term we […]
DAFTER, Mich.— (June 2, 2022) — Cloverland Electric Cooperative announced results of the director election at its Annual Meeting of the Members June 2. Cloverland is a democratically controlled, not-for-profit electric co-op governed by nine directors elected by and from the members of their respective districts to serve a three-year term. […]
Dylan Richard Parr, age 27, of Kincheloe, Michigan, passed away at University Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on May 31, 2022. Dylan was born on June 12, 1994, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Richard Parr and Susan Bonnee. He graduated from Pickford High School with the class of 2012. He […]
Johnny Depp has emerged victorious from his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, after a jury ruled in his favor. Depp, 58, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Heard, 36, over an op-ed published by The Washington Post in 2018, in which the Aquaman star stated that she was a domestic abuse survivor. Heard […]