HOUGHTON — Michigan’s first poet laureate in more than 60 years stopped at the Portage Lake District Library Friday night, reading poems and answering questions with Houghton poet M. Bartley Seigel, a past Upper Peninsula poet laureate. The Library of Michigan and Michigan Department of ...
CALUMET — After more than two years of planning and delays, the Calumet Theatre’s boiler replacement project started Monday with the order of new boiler unit. Calumet Theatre Company President Dan Jamison said that he and Marty Travathan, owner of Marty’s Heating Services, signed the ...
Labor Day has come and gone marking an unofficial end to the summer (according to the autumnal equinox, summer officially ends September 22). Students are back in school, parents are back at work, the wistful dreams of summer have ended. Did summer bring what you thought it would? In this ...
Gordon Borsvold grew up in Detroit and dreamed of designing cars. During high school, he put together a portfolio of car designs and took it to the Ford Company, but they didn’t hire him. Instead, he joined the Army and worked as a graphic designer. It was during that time that he got to ...
Monday is Labor Day which is often looked at as the unofficial end to summer. This is the last holiday many people get off for a three-day weekend, particularly one when the weather is still good for a family trip someplace. Around here, it marks the last day students have off before returning ...
PORCUPINE MOUNTAINS — When pressed, Ellen Lord will admit she didn’t actually go to Woodstock. But she sees commonalities in spirit between that festival and what goes on at Porcupine Mountains Music Festival every year. “I think the camaraderie and the tribal feel is really important ...
