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Trenary Craft Show Saturday The Trenary Lions Club is sponsoring their annual Fall Craft Show on Saturday, Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Trenary Community Building. The event will showcase a number of local crafters and vendors with soups and sandwiches available.
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Marketplace project back on track

The Alger County Commission has approved a resolution that will continue the Munising Marketplace and Fire Hall projects. The decision allows project developers Renovare Development to continue to file for state funding and get work started soon on the renovation of the Fire Hall and breaking ground for the Marketplace.
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Atchison out as UPHSMarquette

Gar Atchison, the current market president of UP Health System (UPHS) and CEO of UPHS – Marquette, will be resigning from his position at the end of November. The change means that the only local Trauma II center in the central Upper Peninsula and a local partner in med control for EMS runs will have new leadership.
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DNR fire crews finish out-of-state season, gain valuable experience

Holly Toohey recently spent two weeks in a beautiful part of northern California’s mountains, but this was no high-end, relaxing getaway. Toohey, a resource analyst for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, spent 16-hour shifts making maps to help firefighters on the front lines contain the South Fork Complex Fire, a collection of four wildfires totaling around 4,000 acres near Hayfork, California.
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EGLE establishes new surface water values for two additional PFAS chemicals

TheMichiganDepartmentofEnvironment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) today announced that it has established new water quality values (WQVs) for the PFAS compounds Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) and Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA). PFHxS and PFNA are members of the larger group of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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