Feb 10, 2021 | Community
By Sterling McGinn Located in the Masonic building on Newberry Avenue, the Tahqua Journey drop-in center offers a safe and relaxing environment for its members. The center is funded for adults with a mental illness, no matter how slight. Members are provided with a...
Feb 3, 2021 | Community
By Sarah Pleiman The month of love has just begun, but the students at TAS have been hard at working creating dozens of valentines to send to VA hospitals and soldiers overseas. Mrs. Quin Curley, the elementary art teacher, explained how she presented the project to...
Feb 3, 2021 | Community
By Carol Stiffler Kristina Duflo is in her first week as Coordinator of the Luce County LINK, taking over after the retirement of longtime coordinator Mary Archambeau. The LINK is a multi-faceted thing that can be hard to describe. It’s at once a safe zone for youth,...
Jan 27, 2021 | Community
By Carol Stiffler When the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to school settings and social environments, it held hostage one more front: jury trials. There were none held in Luce County in 2020, and not because none were needed. All of 2020’s needed jury trials are now...
Jan 24, 2021 | Community
Dear Newberry, Michigan: Greetings from your South Carolina cousins. Newberry, SC is situated in the middle of the state, in between the hills of our Update and the sands of Midlands S.C. I would say it is cold right now, but to y’all it’s probably warm...
Jan 20, 2021 | Community
By Sterling McGinn More of those grand, ornate buildings at the former Newberry State Hospital are going to fade into history. After several decades of sitting empty, the abandoned structures on prison property have been deteriorating and slowly removed when...
