Jun 22, 2022 | Community
By Carol Stiffler If you’ve wanted to try your hand at gardening, here’s an opportunity: The Heavenly Half Acre community garden on West Truman Boulevard still has five plots available for rent. Each 20-by-20 plot has already been tilled twice and is adjacent to an...
Jun 22, 2022 | Community
By Carol Stiffler Tucked away in the residential part of downtown Newberry, Jonathan and Cecelia Powers live quietly in a suburban homestead where they raise their family and run a business unlike any Newberry has seen before. The Powers, who moved to Newberry in...
Jun 17, 2022 | Community
By Sterling McGinn Have you ever heard of Dawson Tech? Many locals haven’t, and its story has largely been lost to history. A little-known fact about Luce County is that it was once home to a junior college. Although the school was relatively short lived, the Dawson...
Jun 15, 2022 | Community
By Sterling McGinn A local non-motorized path has been an idea and a dream of area resident Roxanna Transit for some time now. Transit is now eyeing the possibility of a path running along the west side of highway M-123 north of Newberry. Transit has proposed an...
Jun 8, 2022 | Community
By Sandy Edie The Eastern Upper Peninsula District Pinewood Derby was held on May 21 in at the park in Sault Ste Marie. The Soo Cub Scout pack hosted the event for the top three finishers of local pack derbies. Newberry entrants were Warrick Berry, Brock Feldhusen,...
Jun 8, 2022 | Community
By Sterling McGinn Captain Vince Baker, a longtime member of the local Masonic Lodge and former Gould City resident, was the recipient of a prestigious Masonic award, which has only been given out 26 times in its history. Local Mason Travis Freeman was present at the...
