By Sterling McGinn You can’t miss a set of logging wheels, more commonly known as “Big Wheels.” They are huge, and were a familiar sight in the old logging days. Big Wheels were essential to logging from the late 1800s into the 1930s, when they were used to skid logs...
By Sterling McGinn The Newberry Village Council held a lengthy discussion at their May meeting about requesting another Village fire millage of two mills to purchase a fire truck for the Newberry Fire Department. The council met on Tuesday, May 21. A truth in taxation...
By Carol Stiffler The Curtis Public Library celebrated a grand opening last week, proudly announcing that it had become Michigan’s 397th standalone library. In a two-day celebration on May 22 and 23, the library hosted hundreds of guests who enjoyed live music, cake...
By Sterling McGinn Three new hires for the Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) district were approved at their regular board of education meeting held in the school cafeteria on Monday, May 20. All members of the board were present that evening. The board approved the...
By Sterling McGinn Newberry’s Yooper Youth organization is inviting the community to join them in a clean-up of Knierim Park. They’ll do the work from 1 – 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 19. “We want to enhance the park and eventually build a pavilion, but we thought maybe we...
By Carol Stiffler Dean and Jewel Oswald, perhaps Newberry’s most famous local celebrities, have brought home three new bear cubs this season. Siblings Jacie and Schotzie arrived from Minnesota, and singleton Tom came from New York. The four-month-old cubs were...
