Apr 12, 2024 | Features
By Sterling McGinn The years-long sewer litigation between Pentland Township and the Village of Newberry has ended. Honorable John Economopoulos, Circuit Court Judge, signed the final order of consent on March 20. The settlement agreement between the two...
Apr 6, 2024 | Features
By Sterling McGinn After the Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) Board of Education was faced with significantly high bids coming in for Phase II of the school bond project, the TAS Board voted to accept the rebidding at a special meeting held on Monday, April 1. The first...
Mar 30, 2024 | Features
By Sterling McGinn Eleven members and guests met in the Tahquamenon Sportsmen’s Club building on Monday, March 25 to decide the fate of the century-old organization. Club members and officers have advertised and held meetings to encourage community members to join to...
Mar 23, 2024 | Features
By Sterling McGinn Customers of Newberry’s Chuck Renze Ford will notice a few small changes in and around the dealership downtown, though their footprint is not decreasing. Beginning March 1 of this year, Chuck Renze Ford consolidated the Newberry and Manistique...
Mar 17, 2024 | Features
By Sterling McGinn It has been only two months since the Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) resource officers began walking the district hallways, but there’s already a noticeable change. “You can tell a lot has changed with the culture, and you can tell when [the...
Mar 11, 2024 | Features
By Carol Stiffler In the early months of the COVID pandemic, Lucy Seitz packed for college and headed to Northern Michigan University (NMU) to study cosmetology. She’d graduated from Newberry High School in 2020 in that unfortunate class that had to wait months for an...