Sep 1, 2025 | Features
By Sterling McGinn With the first day of school coming quickly on Tuesday, September 2, the Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) Board of Education met for a special meeting on Monday, August 25 with a short agenda that focused on considering having a closed campus. The...
Aug 25, 2025 | Features
By Sterling McGinn The ornate former Newberry High School building, now vacant, will soon be disconnected from heat and power sources, and its future is uncertain. But Career and Technical Education (CTE) teacher Linus Parr has a vision that may save the structure...
Aug 17, 2025 | Features
Shortly after sunrise on Saturday, August 9, the entire Village of Newberry and many surrounding buildings lost power. The 7 a.m. outage was caused by the sudden failure of the village’s sole transformer, which disabled the entire substation that feeds power to the...
Aug 12, 2025 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Students in Newberry High School’s biology and physical science classes completed a very practical lesson plan this past spring: they tackled the science of maple syrup. Hollis Yenna launched his first year of teaching the Tahquamenon Area Schools...
Aug 4, 2025 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Nova Mackentley and Chris Neri have handled thousands and thousands of owls – those magnificent raptors many people feel lucky to see once or twice a year. Mackentley and Neri have been safely capturing and banding owls for decades with a...
Jul 28, 2025 | Features
By Dan Hardenbrook Those who have been hoping and dreaming for a new track in Newberry received disappointing news at the latest Tahquamenon Area Schools Board of Education meeting. During his administrative report, Athletic Director Anthony Kitzman delivered an...
