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Whether it’s watching your firstborn walk into the kindergarten classroom for the first time, relocating to another city for work or learning how to walk again after a bad injury, many things we go through in life require us to adapt to change.

A teacher was testing the children in her Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. She asked them, “If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?”

Close your eyes and imagine: It’s summertime, the sun is warming your cheeks as you smile up to blue skies, you feel a light breeze blowing past you, the scents of nature enter your nose — and then you sneeze.

Michigan House approves bill to cut income tax

You might hear the word “trauma” and imagine a scene from a television emergency room with medical personnel running every which way and grim music playing in the background. But the real- life trauma that many of us have experienced is much different.

High cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease. Cholesterol is a fat in the body that can increase one’s risk for heart attack, stroke and artery disease. A simple lab test call tell you what your cholesterol is. What do those numbers mean?

In honor of National Women’s Month, here is the second set of the 12 women chosen by the Munising Business and Professional Women’s Club to honor in their 1976 bicentennial publication as introduced in the March 14 edition of The Beacon.

The Munising City Commission convened for its regularly scheduled meeting on March 17, addressing key civic matters including a Fourth of July event license, the search for a new city manager, a boat launch improvement project and the purchase of emergency service equipment.