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Dear Annie: My parents, especially my mother, were abusive throughout my childhood physically, verbally and emotionally. I lived in fear from the time I was 5 years old. I worked hard, stayed out of trouble and built my own life without asking them for help, but my mother still treated me with ...

To your good health

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I have read about using the immune system's response as a mechanism to battle cancer (such as brain and pancreatic) and to reduce the devastating impact that cancer and its treatment has on humans. I understand current drug trials show promising results. How do doctors and ...

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: Every year, I host Thanksgiving for my family, and every year I start out with the same hopeful thought: "This time will be different." I picture everyone laughing, passing dishes around, maybe even helping with the cleanup without being asked. But by the time the turkey is carved, ...

No Kid Without a Christmas

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EAGLE RIVER – The Keweenaw County Sheriff’s is gearing up for its 27th Annual No Kid Without a Christmas campaign, says Sheriff Cutt Pennala. On Monday, Keweenaw County announced applications for the program are now being accepted. The application is available on the county’s ...

Check your hemlocks

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The Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development encourage those who have eastern hemlock trees on their property to take time this winter to inspect the trees for signs of hemlock woolly adelgid – tiny, soft-bodied insects that consume the trees’ stored ...