Pet Pals wins $3,000 gift from Secura Insurance’s annual giveaway

Dec 3, 2025 | Community

By Carol Stiffler Kirby Wendt, a senior commercial account manager and insurance agent with Forest Insurance Center Agency, was browsing his email one day when he noticed a special offer from Secura Insurance: They were giving away 13 gifts of $3,000 each. Insurance...

Event to honor veterans in Portage, Garfield, and Newton Townships

Dec 2, 2025 | Features

By Sterling McGinn Cemeteries in Portage, Garfield, and Newton townships in Mackinac County will join more than 5,500 locations across the United States participating in the Wreaths Across America (WAA) program laying memorial wreaths on veteran graves this Holiday...

Readers give reporters strength to go on

Dec 1, 2025 | Editorial

By William Diem So far this year, 50 journalists have been killed and 488 are in jails around the world, according to the Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF), an association of journalists. In response, news organizations like Agence France Press (AFP) mandate safety...

Department of Corrections releases annual Dogs of the MDOC Calendar

Nov 30, 2025 | Community

By Camila Bello Castro Capital News Service The holiday season at the Department of Corrections is the time of the year when staff, inmates and the public get excited to see the newest edition of the Dogs of the MDOC Calendar. “It features all dogs that have been...

Obelisk removed from indigenous burial site at Brady Park

Nov 29, 2025 | Around the U.P.

SAULT STE. MARIE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has removed the Obelisk monument from Brady Park after determining the structure was placed more than 50 years ago on an Indigenous burial ground. The monument, originally installed to commemorate the 50th...