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On Tuesday May 14, Mrs. Ludecke’s Natural Resources class went to the Anne River to release the salmon fry that had been raised in the classroom. Students left at nine in the morning and returned back to school by one in the afternoon. Mrs. Ludecke’s Natural resources class is a mixture of tenth, eleventh and twelfth graders. Fourteen out of the thirty students went on the field trip.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) encourages Michigan residents to take steps to avoid tick bites while enjoying the outdoors. Risk of tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, increases across the state as weather warms. Ticks can be active when the weather is above 40F.

Chris Case of Alger County Recycling is one of four recipients of the 2024 Excellence in Recycling Award, presented at the Michigan Recycling Coalition (MRC) 42nd Annual Conference. For over three decades, Chris has been dedicated to advancing recycling initiatives in the Munising/Alger County area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Chris’s unwavering determination led to the rebuilding of recycling programs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Vietnam Veterans of Alger County Chapter 237 finished cleaning the All-Vets Memorial, which is now ready for the Memorial Day Celebration. We want to thank all those who helped with the spring cleaning. Each year at this time, Chapter 237 goes down to Bay Shore Park and completes this project. Our next project will be the Munising Volunteer Fire Department Trout and Salmon Classic on May 18 at the American Legion. We’ll be cooking the fish with our traveling fryers. These are the same fryers we use at Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette, where we cook fish for them on the last Friday of July.