COVID cases continue to rise in four eastern Upper Peninsula counties. Mackinac County added the most cases throughout April with 131 cases, followed by Luce County with 100 cases. Alger and Schoolcraft Counties each increased by a total of 47 cases, according to the Luce, Mackinac, Alger, Schoolcraft District Health […]
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Ethel Rae Autore
Ethel Rae Autore, age 92, of Cedarville, Michigan, died April 19, 2021, at Cedar Cove in Cedarville. She was born on June 24, 1928, in Newberry, Michigan to Herbert and Gertrude Mae (Owen) Duff. Ethel grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and graduated from Soo Area High School in […]
Joan Tilson
Joan Louise (Knetzger) Tilson, age 94, died on Friday, April 23, 2021 in Saline, Michigan where she moved in 2007 after living in Sault Ste. Marie for over 50 years. Joan was born on February 7, 1927 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Irene and Alois Knetzger. After her father died when […]
Thomas Kujala
Thomas Leonard Kujala, age 89, of Newberry, Michigan, passed away on April 24, 2021 at UP Health System in Marquette, Michigan. He was born on September 10, 1931 in Newberry, to Jake and Bertha (Marceny) Kujala. Tom grew up in Newberry and graduated from Newberry High School in 1949. He […]
Michael Irwin
Michael E. “Mike” Irwin, 71, of Bloomington, IN passed away on Friday morning March 5, 2021 at the Hearthstone Health Campus with his loving wife by his side. Mike was born in Manistique, Michigan on July 29, 1949 to Frank Lamoor and Mildred Rowena (Holt) Irwin. He was a 1967 […]
‘Horrible’ weeks ahead as India’s virus catastrophe worsens
NEW DELHI (AP) — COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.” India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed […]
F. Elaine Perron
F. Elaine Perron, age 92, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, peacefully passed away early Sunday morning, April 25, 2021, with her children by her side, under the care of McLaren Hospice in Petoskey, Michigan. Elaine was born on October 7, 1928 in Munising, Michigan to the late Clifford and Ruth […]