By Bill Diem When the conversation turns to the Cleveland baseball team, I have a hard time not talking about the Tribe. I am well aware of the pressures that led to changing the name Indians to Guardians, but I don’t agree. Loving as I do the Upper Peninsula and its...
By Sterling McGinn Exactly 65 years ago, the look and feel of the Christmas season of downtown Newberry was forever changed in a positive way. I don’t think there is anything in our community that exudes happiness and joy more than the iconic and traditional Newberry...
By Sterling McGinn In May of 2017, I had the privilege to accompany my Korean War Veteran grandfather, Rolland Rieger, and 70 more veterans on Mission XII of the Upper Peninsula Honor Flight. It is a trip I will never forget, and the experience is difficult to put...
By Bill Diem Jean Plantu has been drawing editorial cartoons for French newspapers since the 1970s. He recently spoke to the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris about his career. The police bodyguard with him sat quietly in the back of the room while Plantu...
By Carol Stiffler Nineteen years ago, a litter of kittens were born under a trailer home near Gladstone, Michigan. The momma cat was a short-haired tabby cat. No one knew who the daddy was. Their arrival was not celebrated; this new litter of fluff equaled too many...
The Newberry News recently interviewed the four Republican candidates for Michigan’s new 108th District. Below are links to each interview. We encourage our readers to learn more about the candidates before the August 2nd primary. Getting to know Kurt...
