Sep 30, 2021 | Features
Gone are the days when we could call from Newberry to Newberry with just four numbers. And very soon, it’ll be impossible to dial within town or to any location without dialing the full 10-digit phone number. The time is quickly approaching for telephone users in...
Sep 22, 2021 | Features
By Carol Stiffler TV6 Meteorologist Karl Bohnak has been fired from his longtime position at WLUC TV6 in Marquette after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID. His last day as chief meteorologist for the station was Wednesday, September 15. The television station’s...
Sep 15, 2021 | Features
Contractors used a helicopter today to lift the four sections of a new 142-foot-long pedestrian bridge into place at the Lower Tahquamenon Falls. The operation began this morning after a rain delay and took about four hours to complete. Barricades at Tahquamenon Falls...
Sep 8, 2021 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Walk along Lake Superior on any half-decent evening and you will see the effect Erik Rintamaki has had on its shores. No longer abandoned in the evening, crowds of people carrying UV flashlights pepper the beach. The nearby parking lots are sometimes...
Sep 1, 2021 | Features
By Carol Stiffler The start of the 2021-2022 school year is just days away, and school districts have been tasked with making preparations to handle the ongoing COVID pandemic. At the start of the last school year, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer had been signing...
Aug 25, 2021 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Madison Yale is a very happy girl. She’s very smiley – always smiling, her aunt says – and not easily bothered. So when she went missing for 26 hours last week, it upset the entire world around her, but not necessarily Madison. Though she...