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Gladstone and Ironwood, MI -- The Upper Peninsula Fire Management Unit plans to burn slash piles on the Hiawatha and Ottawa National Forests this fall and winter that were generated from forest thinning and timber sales. Thinning projects improve forest health and wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of wildfire near private residences and infrastructure. Slash from these projects is piled and burned to remove debris that could fuel wildfire.

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Thank you to all who donated new children’s books for the Gift of Reading this year. You have brightened a child’s holiday with the gift that keeps giving every time they read. The books have been sent on their way to be distributed, and we hope for even more participation next year, so remember that while you shop for books.

Starry Starry Night, the annual community event held on Black Friday, was successful on Friday, Nov. 24. With equal parts economic stimulus and cultural heritage, the event brought hundreds of people to Grand Marais to celebrate the holidays.

The stretch of bad luck continues for hunters in the U.P. as the deer harvest remains down across the eastern Upper Peninsula.