TAS delays start of school year

Aug 17, 2024 | Features

By Sterling McGinn To make sure the facility is clean and ready to go for the upcoming school year following the summer’s construction projects, Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) has postponed the first day to Monday, September 9. School was initially set to open on...

Highline buys bottling building, makes Newberry EUP hub

Aug 11, 2024 | Features

By Carol Stiffler High-speed internet is coming to the Newberry and McMillan areas. Highline, a high-speed Internet service provider with operations in Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas, is running fiber cables throughout Luce County in...

What a wonderful world

Aug 1, 2024 | Features

By Sophia Johnson Newberry native and recent high school graduate Sophia Johnson recently finished a month abroad with the international travel band from Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. This is her story. I’m not really sure where I should start talking about this journey....

Newberry’s extraordinary women

Jul 27, 2024 | Features

By Sterling McGinn Two Newberry women, the late Frances (Tomkiel) Beaulieu and the late Carmel (Stewart) Mullen, are featured as part of the Extraordinary Women exhibit displayed this spring and summer at the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan...

Newberry loses two civic leaders

Jul 20, 2024 | Features

By Sterling McGinn Wednesday, July 10 was a day of loss for Luce County as two leaders and outstanding citizens, Robert Cameron and Kevin Erickson, died following long illnesses. Cameron and Erickson served as community leaders and public figures for years, with...

Luce County youth had lowest voter turnout in Michigan in 2022

Jul 14, 2024 | Features

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson released a new report identifying two significant voter turnout gaps among young voters in the last two elections – a gap between the number of young people who were active registered voters and those who cast a ballot; and a gap in...