The Kivajat Finnish-American Folk Dancers wish to extend a hearty kiitos - thank you - for the community support of our recent Old Time Country Dance. Oren Tikkanen and the Backroom Boys donated their musical talents while preschoolers to octogenarians, with a vibrant energy from collegiate ...

Happy Earth Day! Should this be a celebration for the Earth or should this be a wake for all species of plants and animals lost due to harmful activities of man (“The Crazy Ape”) as Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate for Medicine said in 1970? In 1969, the year before Earth Day’s ...

The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say this is simply due ...

I’m writing to complain about the Houghton County Board of Commissioners’ Resolution 23-10 “Affirming Support of All Constitutional Rights” that was recently passed by a 4 to 1 vote. The resolution states, as if fact, that gun control laws “conflict” with Second Amendment rights. ...

I’m 10 years old. I support Ukraine by going to local protests at the lift bridge with my dad and my younger brothers every Sunday. Most of the time it’s all fine. There are hundreds of people that support Ukraine, and during protests, there are people that honk and wave every week. Besides ...

At last, we have a clear, definitive, sensible choice in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, a chance (maybe the only one) to restore our national and international political landscape to a sense of dignity, stability, respect, intellectual decisions, civility, as well as combating the ...