By Jonathan Eppley
The Brevort Township Board of Trustees plans to contact Cloverland Electric Cooperative to dispute a $10,121 bill to extend a power line from the township hall on Church Street to the new fire hall site across the street. More...
A report in the April 2 issue of The St. Ignace News concerning layoff notices in Les Cheneaux Community Schools incorrectly stated that food service employee Jackie Malkowski received a layoff notice. Mrs. More...
The news in brief from communities around the U.P. and northern Michigan
Compiled using information published in various community newspapers.
U.P. Regional Jail Concept Would Be Difficult, Study Says An Upper Peninsula regional jail to save money would be difficult to develop, a study has found. More...
By Audrey Hutchison
A local family of eight is finding their self-reliant lifestyle is helping them cope with the recession in their own way. More...
It's Not About Honey, Experts Say, It's About World's Supply of Food
By Marcia Lane St. Augustine Record/AP
Barehanded, David Barnes lifted off the top of a wooden beehive and eased out one of half-a-dozen frames loaded with honeybees as several dozen people edged in closer around him during the first day of the University of Florida's Bee College in St. More...