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Improve your habits to improve your life

June 26, 2025

Maybe you’re a chronic snooze-button hitter. Perhaps you like to have a couple too many drinks every night. Or it could be that you binge social media content until your eyes burn.

How to make the most of the season

June 26, 2025

Does anyone else feel like summer comes and goes way too fast? I’ve always said that once the Fourth of July hits, it feels like the rest of summer speeds by. So don’t let it slip away — grab your bike, paddleboard, kayak or whatever summer gear you love, and soak up that vitamin D. (Just don’t forget the sunscreen!)

From Ireland to the island: Murray Bay history

June 26, 2025

The earth has tilted in favor of summer sun and heat for the Upper Peninsula, and a great many folks are headed to Murray Bay in Lake Superior.

Munising’s biggest day

June 19, 2025

For more than 40 years, Joe Paquette and Sonny Putvin were the driving force behind Munising’s beloved Fourth of July celebration — a community tradition rooted in volunteerism, patriotism and small-town heart.

June 19, 2025

Two campers found dead at Isle Royale

Library hosts Bohnak for Q&A today

June 19, 2025

Messy Art scheduled for next Thursday

June 19, 2025

We all have things from our past that have challenged us and may continue to challenge us, and we all have things that we go through from time to time that seem to make us question everything.

Installing history at Fayette

June 19, 2025

If you had told me when I was working on my public relations degree that one day I would be vacuuming flies out of a 19th-century machine shop, I probably would’ve looked at you a little funny. But here I am.

June 19, 2025

In 1991, a team of archaeologists from Michigan Technological University in Houghton conducted a dig on the site of the privy that was once connected to Shelton House, Fayette’s only hotel.

Reflecting on the loss of tree species

June 19, 2025

Michigan forests are not as “pristine” as some in the media would have us believe. Nearly all Lake States forests are the product of severe human disturbance, and all the forests are facing significant threats.