https://mynewberrynews.com/category/features/ Your Luce County Community Newspaper Fri, 17 May 2024 02:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 https://mynewberrynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/favicon.ico https://mynewberrynews.com/category/features/ 32 32 https://mynewberrynews.com/features/yooper-youth-invites-community-for-knierim-park-cleanup/ Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=11715  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.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/meet-the-new-cubs-at-oswalds-bear-ranch/ Sun, 12 May 2024 13:13:27 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=11450 Three new bear cubs have been brought in to Oswald's Bear Ranch. Dean Oswald says there are now 50 bears at the ranch, and he bottle fed 47 of them as cubs.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/introducing-peninsula-pointe-dance-studio/ Sat, 04 May 2024 16:00:29 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10703 Dance instructor Kimberly Sanders, mother to Joslyn, 9, and Raelyn, 3, said they tested the waters to gauge local interest.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/tim-callahan-newberrys-field-research-artist/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:00:14 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10612 His artwork has also been spotted on envelopes at the Newberry Post Office, and the Village of Newberry has received dozens of artsy mailings from Callahan in the three years since he moved here.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/saving-columbus-township-clerk-appointed/ Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:46:08 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10575 The Columbus Township Board may be saved from state intervention after several interested individuals stepped forward to run for the multiple positions that are slated to be empty following the November election.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/pentland-vs-newberry-water-fight-is-over/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:35:11 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10518 The years-long sewer litigation between Pentland Township and the Village of Newberry has ended.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/tas-approves-rebidding-for-phase-ii-renovation-project/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:00:22 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10479 The first set of bids, which were due February 1, for the remainder of the school bond project were approximately $2.8 million over budget. The board voted on February 13 to reject them.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/tahquamenon-sportsmens-club-to-dissolve/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:50:24 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10447 During its tenure, membership helped live trap deer with the Department of Natural Resources, planted trees and wild rice, and provided supplemental feeding for whitetail deer herds.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/renze-ford-consolidating-dealerships/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:00:15 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10415 Customers of Newberry’s Chuck Renze Ford will notice a few small changes in and around the dealership downtown, though their footprint is not decreasing.]]> https://mynewberrynews.com/features/climate-change-resource-officers-making-a-difference/ Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:12:19 +0000 https://mynewberrynews.com/?p=10368 It has been only two months since the Tahquamenon Area Schools (TAS) resource officers began walking the district hallways, but there’s already a noticeable change.]]>