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Peg Kauppi

COPPER HARBOR — Traveling north on highway US-41 takes travelers to all kinds of places in the United States. It starts in Florida and goes through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana Illinois, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. In the U.P., the highway, immortalized in the Allman ...

Betty Chavis

HOUGHTON — Most people live their lives day-to-day not stopping to recognize their accomplishments have reached historic proportions until it is brought to their attention. Among those people who have become historic in their lifetimes is Betty Chavis. In 1989, while she was working in the ...

Celebrating Ramadan

CALUMET — Families, Michigan Technological University students and community members gathered in downtown Calumet Thursday evening for a community meal celebrating the last night of the Islamic holy month, Ramadan. The celebration took place at the Keweenaw Storytelling Center and included ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: My younger sister is getting married this fall. I'm happy for her. The problem is her fiance. At family dinners he makes little digs at her — jokes about her cooking, her spending, even her weight. When she laughs uncomfortably, he says, "Relax, you're too sensitive." Last ...

To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had breast cancer in my left breast 14 years ago. I was treated with chemotherapy and radiation after a lumpectomy and the removal of 14 lymph nodes. I still have difficulty raising my left arm, along with burning, tingling and itching in my armpit area. I have a small scar ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: I never thought I would be writing to an advice column, but here I am, because my heart is full and my mind is spinning. I am a Catholic woman in my early 30s, and I have fallen deeply in love with a wonderful man who is Jewish. He is kind, thoughtful, funny and steady in a way ...