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BigBrothersBigSistersofMarquette and Alger Counties (BBBSMA), now serves the Central Upper Peninsula and is asking adults to “Join the Village” by volunteering as a “Big” for one of over 25 children currently ready and waiting for a mentor. Mentoring is fun, flexible, and a powerful way to make a real difference in one’s community by providing a safe space for a young person to explore, learn and grow, igniting their potential for a bright future.

The flooding in Au Train has significantly slowed down, with the river dropping over two feet at its mouth into Lake Superior. “There are three areas where the water is flowing out very nicely.

Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication!

Senator Debbie Stabenow will not seek re-election and will leave the U.S. Senate at the end of her term on January 3, 2025, turning Michigan into a battleground state for partisan control of that chamber of Congress.

The annual holiday lighting decoration competitions have wrapped up in the Upper Peninsula, with a local home winning the UPPCO Holiday Lighting Contest and numerous more local locations receiving votes. Ultimately the Ackermans on Gates Road won the U.P.-wide competition by over 200 votes. The bright display took 932 votes, defeating a Calumet home receiving 712 votes.