In his Jan. 9 letter in the Daily Mining Gazette, “Disappointed by demolition,” Allan Baker makes a good point: where possible, we should strive to repurpose rather than landfill materials from demolition projects. This basic approach is called “deconstruction,” which the Michigan ...

One of my favorite holiday parties in 2023 was the Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly gathering at St. Ignatius Church on Christmas Day. My spirits were buoyed by the people, servers and guests, who chose to leave their homes in order to share a meal. We who have only lived here for 50 ...

I just wanted to take time to give a big Thank You! to the Portage Health Auxiliary for a grant I was awarded. I work in the Adams Township School District as a social work intern. When my master’s degree is completed, I will be a full-time mental health provider for students in our district. ...

Here are my thoughts on the building tear down at 1202 Memorial Road in Houghton: No part of the former Hardee’s building was saved to be recycled. It all went to the dump. I saw glass structural pieces and cooking appliances as well as heating and cooling equipment. Maybe it was ...

Racism is so stupid that its claims of an unchangeable reality of unbridgeable chasms can be shattered in a few words. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable ...

Is anyone else sick of pro-Hamas propaganda and rhetoric being spouted forth in anti-Israeli demonstrations across our country and around the world? I sure hope you are! In the wake of the hideous 10/7 massacre of innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists, multitudes of people around ...