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AG Nessel encouraged by MPSC’s utility action

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel supports the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) approach to recent power outages and utility oversight. The MPSC opened Case No. U-21122, U-20147, “... an effort to expand the data it receives from utilities about their efforts to boost reliability, support more transparency around planning, and encourage more engagement in how best to prepare and harden Michigan’s electric distribution system to better withstand the state’s increasingly recurrent extreme weather.” MPSC also announced a technical conference focused on ...

Youth work to preserve local history in the Copper Country

Traditionally, summer vacation is a time to kick back and relax, but for YouthWork crews, it is a time to lace up their steel toed boots and get to work serving their communities while building their futures. This year YouthWork Industries, an Americorps program of Child and Family Services of Northwestern Michigan, in partnership with the Keweenaw National Historical Park, Ottawa National Forest, Hiawatha National Forest, and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, tackled a number of projects dedicated to historic and natural preservation in the Copper Country and beyond. In exchange ...

Gitche Gumee fall events

EAGLE RIVER — Gitche Gumee Bible Camp will be hosting its annual Fall Ladies’ Retreat and Adult Fall Retreats again this year. The Ladies’ Retreat is a Thursday through Saturday event (September 16 to 18), and our speaker will be Shannon Popkin. Bestselling author and speaker, Shannon Popkin, is the author of Control Girl and Comparison Girl, and has been featured on FamilyLife Today, Revive Our Hearts, and Proverbs 31. The theme of the retreat is Comparison Girl: Lessons from Jesus on Me-Free Living in a Measure-Up World. Gitche Gumee will also be holding two, five-day Adult ...

Gov. Whitmer signs executive directive readying the state’s vaccine response to deliver booster shots, prioritizing residents in long-term care facilities

LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer, in preparation for the Biden Administration to begin offering booster shots to all vaccinated residents on Sept. 20, issued an executive directive to state departments and agencies to begin preparing the state’s vaccine response to administer booster doses to Michiganders. The governor specifically directs the state of Michigan to prioritize booster doses beginning with residents in long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and adult foster care. “Last year, we built the largest vaccine program in our state’s history in record time ...

Aspirus Health collaborates with Canal View – Houghton County in COVID-19 antibody treatments

Aspirus Health has been administering COVID-19 antibody treatments throughout the pandemic and continues to see them produce positive outcomes. Aspirus recently partnered with Canal View – Houghton County to administer the COVID-19 antibody treatments to residents who were COVID-positive. “We are extremely grateful for Aspirus Health leading the way to help reduce COVID-19, hospitalizations, and offering Regen-Cov as an option for our most vulnerable population,” said Kim Salmi, Administrator, Canal-View Houghton County. “Unfortunately, the delta variant has made its way into ...

New era for SAGE Building at Sawyer International Airport

GWINN — The former K.I. Sawyer Air Base Command Center, also known as the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) Building originally constructed by the USAF and deactivated in 1963, has hope for a new life. The property, which has not operated at its capacity as a data center since the base closed in September 1995, is under contract with an undisclosed purchaser, according to Vikki Kulju, executive director of Telkite Enterprises. The project, known as Project Odyssey, could be ready for occupancy by year end 2022 if the purchaser decides to move forward at the end of their due ...