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To your good health

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Everyone in my family except for me has converted to using almond milk instead of cow's milk. I just saw something on the internet that says almond milk is possibly the worst plant-based milk substitute. I trust your opinion and research. Can you please educate me on what is ...

Dear Annie

Features

Editors note: This Dear Annie column originally ran in 2022 Dear Annie: I'm at a stage in my life where personal growth has taken hold in the absence of my husband. My husband is still here and alive, but he frequently travels for work, and I am often left to my own devices for days at a ...

Some positive news

Features

HOUGHTON – The Michigan Technological University Board of Trustees met informal session Friday, the day before Fall Commencement. As previously reported in the Daily Mining Gazette, the highlight of the meeting was the announcement of a $55 million Alumnus Chang Park to build a student ...

Eat Safe Fish

Outdoors

LANSING – The Great Lakes PFAS Action Network (GLPAN) has announced the launch of a new interactive online mapping tool that allows Michiganders to easily search for bodies of water that have health and consumption warnings for PFOS (a type of PFAS) in fish. Developed in collaboration with ...

A Fuzzy Threat

Outdoors

HOUGHTON — The excitement of snow and the holidays is upon us. Enjoy the holidays while protecting our beloved forests from balsam woolly adelgid (BWA; Adelges piceae). The BWA is an invasive insect that was discovered in Missaukee and Clare Counties, MI, in the northern lower peninsula in ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

Outdoors

“Well, I grew up wild and free, walking these fields in my bare feet. There wasn’t no place I couldn’t go with a .22 rifle and a fishing pole,” – Bob McDill Growing up in an iron-ore mining town put us kids in close contact with some of the coolest things, especially for boys. ...