Help Greg Moore come home

By Carol Stiffler Greg Moore left home on October 17, 2023 and hasn’t been back since. Moore, a real estate agent, husband, father, track coach, and Engadine School Board member from Curtis, was running an errand that day when the unthinkable happened. He was standing...

Old JerMac mill materials salvaged

By Sterling McGinn A piece of Newberry’s lumbering past is now gone—but not totally forgotten. The material that kept the roof over the former Chamberlain and later JerMac sawmill have been salvaged and will be repurposed elsewhere in the country. Located on the banks...

Getting to know you: Matthew Eastman

By Sterling McGinn Newberry’s Living Water Church Assembly of God officially has a new pastor. Matthew Eastman, plus his wife and three children, now call Newberry their home. Eastman’s first Sunday service as pastor was February 18 at the church located on Miller...

Gehrett named Corrections Officer of the Year

From the Newberry Correctional Facility On behalf of Warden Curley, please join us in congratulating Corrections Officer Willerd Gehrett for being selected as our 2024 Corrections Officer of the Year for the Newberry Correctional Facility. Officer Gehrett began his...

Will Heikki Lunta do the trick?

By Pete Wurdock Across the Eastern Upper Peninsula, the winter of 2023-24 is going down as the winter that never was. The absence of snow has kept the tourists away and put pressure on those in the hospitality industry. Rental cabins and motels are near empty,...

Top of the Lake snowmobile show this weekend

The 32nd Annual Top of the Lake Snowmobile Show is set to take place in Naubinway this weekend, February 16 and 17. The event kicks off with a breakfast at the Naubinway Pavilion on Friday, February 17 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. there will be live...