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The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB) kicks off the search for the tree to grace the Capitol grounds for the 2023 holiday season. DTMB is tasked with the search and harvest of the state Christmas tree and once again asks for the public’s assistance in spotting the perfect tree.

The average price of regular unleaded gas is now $3.34 per gallon in Michigan, a drop of four cents from last year. This also means that prices are 37 cents lower from the same time last month and a significant reduction of $1.02 compared to last year’s prices. However, in Alger County, motorists are paying almost 30 cents more a gallon than the state average.

It’s becoming almost routine to see headlines filled with dire warnings that Michigan and the Midwest are becoming a “climate haven” – a place to which people can escape from allegedly inhospitable temperatures and disappearing shorelines. The stories describe a nation plagued by worsening storms, increased droughts, colder winters, blazing summer, both higher and lower snowpacks, and a host of other environmental calamities brought on by a changing climate. But the Great Lakes region, we are told, offers shelter for those who have been displaced by the growing threat of climate chaos.

High school graduation will soon be here. With graduation, come open houses and other parties.

Munising School Public Library will be closed May 27-29 for the Memorial Day weekend and will reopen at 10 a.m. on Tues., May 30. Have a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day and Congratulations to all of the area graduates.