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Hope and Peace

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MARQUETTE — Hundreds of community members gathered Thursday for a musical vigil for hope and peace organized by Northern Michigan University Professor of Music, Erin Colwitz, at the Marquette Hope Methodist Church. “Our country has taken a dark turn and many people are feeling scared, ...

Dear Annie

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Dear Readers, This time of year, my inbox fills with the same quiet sentence written a hundred different ways: "I'm tired of being the reasonable one." It comes from the woman hosting Sunday dinner who gets criticized no matter what she serves. The man who keeps lending money to a sibling who ...

Advancing Community Projects

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MARQUETTE — Three Upper Michigan college students have been selected to participate in the third cohort of NMU's Rural Leadership Fellowship Program, a public-private partnership with InvestUP that promotes immersive, project-based learning while also supporting U.P. economic and community ...

Preparing An Icy Reception

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HOUGHTON – People passing by the Student Development Center (SDC) at Michigan Technological University (MTU) this week caught a glimpse of an unusual winter ritual: a student equipping a fire hose purposefully creating a sheet of ice. They worked in preparations for today’s Winter Baja ...

A call for civility

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LANSING — Four former Michigan governors will join forces next week to push for civil discourse amid rising national political tensions that organizers say is “pulling us apart” as a country. Former Republican Govs. John Engler and Rick Snyder, along with former Democratic Govs. Jim ...

Bergman wants answers from USPS

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Editors Note: This is the first of a two-part series on mail disruptions in the western Upper Peninsula. HOUGHTON — In response to constituents’ appeals to his office, U.S. Congressman Jack Bergman sent a letter to U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner, dated Jan. 20, expressing concern at ...