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Michigan spent $1.1M probing tribal boarding schools

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Michigan spent three years and $1.1 million to study the state’s Native American boarding schools, then refused to release the report to the public. Michigan officials blasted the report as too “shoddy” to show to the public, while the Native American firm hired to conduct the study ...

Dear Annie

Features

Annie Lane is off this week. The following column was originally published in 2023. Dear Annie: I see that you often answer questions pertaining to families trapped in addiction. I grew up in that special hell with all of the complex trauma issues that go along with that lifestyle. I ...

Hometown roots, national reach

Life

ESCANABA – From local sports coverage in the Upper Peninsula to bylines in The Athletic, owned by The New York Times, Eden Laase-Derouin has built a career that spans local reporting and national media. Laase-Berouin, 30, who professionally goes by Eden Laase, has held roles ranging from a ...

DNR advisory council meets Wednesday

Outdoors

LANSING —The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Western Upper Peninsula Citizens’ Advisory Council is scheduled to hear updates on the western U.P. snowmobile trail system, the fish guiding process for Michigan lakes, a winter boating access site snowplowing partnership and ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

Outdoors

“The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous; we chopped through the night, and we chopped through the dawn,” – Bob Dylan The persistent and deepening snow and cold of late has signaled primal feelings of survival within me. Just walking to the mailbox and back is an adventure ...

Body of missing Gwinn man found

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GWINN — A Gwinn man missing for several days has been found deceased in a rural area of Forsyth Township. Jamie Willis, 46, was last seen at his residence on Maple Hill Drive, in Gwinn, at around 10 p.m. Monday, according to the Forsyth Township Police Department, the agency that handled the ...