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Outdoors North: John Pepin

“For them who think death’s honesty won’t fall upon ‘em naturally, life sometimes must get lonely,” – Bob Dylan In the frosty mornings on these November days, with the orange-red sun burning through the crystalline ice and frost like a laser, I find an honest peace and headspace ...

Looking back: Graham Jaehnig

Since July 23, 1913 what has come to be known as the Strike of 1913 has reached mythical proportions. To this day, conversations on the topic can lead to fights, even though no one living today experienced the event first – or even – secondhand. When considered in the context of Copper ...

Fighting for funding

LANSING — In their competition for rural health care dollars from a new federal fund, states are seeking money to bolster emergency services, address chronic diseases, and recruit and train more doctors and nurses. All 50 states submitted their applications to the federal government last ...

To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an incidental finding was described in the report as "innumerable, tiny noncalcified pulmonary nodules ...

Gilmer assigned to Wakefield Post

WAKEFIELD — The Michigan State Police (MSP) Wakefield Post announced the recent promotion of a new sergeant. Sergeant James Gilmer has been a dedicated member of the MSP for more than twenty-five years prior to this promotion. Gilmer grew up in Bergland, Michigan, before his family moved to ...