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Alger County Indigent Defense attorney Jana Mathieu has issued her resignation from the role, effective June 30. “It has been an honor to serve as public defender and work with the County to build the office over the last few years.

In a unique artist event for Munising, the Starling Shakespeare Company performed the play “As You Like It” on Wednesday, June 14 at Bayshore Park Pavilion. “I think it went really well.

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Michigan Beef Industry Commission (MBIC) Executive Director George Quackenbush has seen a lot of change in the landscape during his 18 years representing Michigan cattle producers. From farming techniques to technological changes in how the public gets information to rising pressure from anti-beef groups around the state and nation, very little of the landscape looks familiar since the day he went to work for Michigan’s beef producers back in 2005.

It’s finally here, the long awaited spring in the U.P. has arrived, it may be the end of May but who’s counting? This month, I am going to change up the newsletter to something a little more personal rather than focus on a certain topic. For me, spring means getting out on my property and observing the changes from last season. I always look forward to seeing what plants are filling in the forest floor, which trees and shrubs survived our 219 inches of snowfall (for this year anyway), and any signs of wildlife. The robins and blue jays are back, I saw a yellow bellied sapsucker last week, the chipmunks are busy scurrying around and I heard a wood thrush in the woods last night as the sun was setting.

The forum on threatened and endangered species, TNEs for short, has multiple dimensions. At the surface is the noble effort to conserve and retain as many elements of diversity as possible.