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Open for the season

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HOUGHTON/HANCOCK — The Keweenaw Snowmobile Club has officially opened the Portage Lake Lift Bridge crossing for snowmobile traffic for the 2025–26 riding season. The crossing utilizes the lower deck of the world’s largest and heaviest double-decker lift bridge, reconnecting snowmobile ...

Faith & Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

Life

It is the season of gifts. We are all rushing around trying to remember the important and influential people. There are a million reasons one will find those deserving of a gift. This is most likely family, children coming first, and the rest of the bosses, mail people, secretaries, teachers, ...

Mystery Solved

Outdoors

Nine months after two cougar kittens were documented in the Upper Peninsula, a new trail camera photo indicates the elusive animals are still alive and living with their mother. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources verified the Dec. 6 photo of an adult cougar being followed by two ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

Outdoors

“Holly’s in the window, home is where the wind blows, can’t walk for runnin’ Christmas time’s a-comin’,” – Tex Logan Past the dimmed and cracked corners of the memories in my mind’s eye, I can see those week-before-Christmas days of my very young boyhood. Even in those early ...

Two hurt in car/bus accident

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ESCANABA TOWNSHIP — Two people were injured when a Gladstone Area School bus and passenger vehicle collided Thursday afternoon on U.S. 2 and 41 between Gladstone and Escanaba, forcing the southbound lanes to be temporarily closed. Both of the injured were in the passenger vehicle and their ...