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...
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...
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...
By Carol Stiffler Where did you live on April 1, 2020? The U.S. Census Bureau asked that question last year, for its most recent census survey, and the results for Luce County indicate a massive loss in population. In short: The numbers may not be correct. The United...
By Carol Stiffler Newberry resident Jim Hoy attended the first ever Michigan Wolf Advisory Council meeting on Wednesday, August 4 in Ishpeming. Hoy is an outspoken proponent for establishing a gray wolf hunt to manage the wolf population. It’s a controversial topic in...
By Carol Stiffler The 2021 Luce-West Mackinac County Fair is in the books. Visitors to the fair were treated to a diverse display of poultry and rabbits in the small animal barn, a petting zoo in the large animal barn, and scheduled programming including the wildly...
