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There have been a few changes here at the library! We were approved for a grant through AC3 and we now have new furniture! If you haven’t seen it yet stop by and take a peek! A fresh new look just in time for spring!

BookFlix from Scholastic offers digital online access for early readers to build their skills with fun, easy to read animated stories that have companion fiction and nonfiction. Filled with fun activities and engaging books, little readers will delight in this easy-to-use free online resource that unlocks with a library card. Go online to the library website at www.msplonline.org and click on the BookFlix link. With a quick entry of your library card number, your little reader will soon be enjoying all the fun features this resource has to offer. It’s from Scholastic so it must be fantastic!

Intuition (aka that “gut feeling”) is something we are all blessed with. The trouble is that most of us do not know how to recognize our intuition or to hear what it is trying to tell us. Intuition is defined as, “immediate knowing without reasoning or inferring”; it is the ability to understand something without conscious reasoning. People often describe the sensation of intuition as “pit of stomach feeling”, or “light bulb moment”, where you have a random idea/impulse out of nowhere.

Q: I am 74 years old, have arthritis in my knees and spine, and the last time I saw my doctor, she talked about switching my medication from Vicodin (combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen) to something called an NSAID. Aside from some constipation, the Vicodin seems to be working well so far; why the proposed change?

Every year we celebrate the Irish holiday of St. Patrick’s Day.

On January 19th, 2024 the Alger County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Michigan State Police, raided a house on West Onota Street, Chatham, MI, pursuant to search warrant. The search yielded significant evidence of drug activity, including methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

At approximately 6:35pm on 2/21/24, Negaunee Regional Dispatch received a 911 call from a person who observed a snowmobile go through the ice approximately 1 mile off the south shore of Indian Lake. The snowmobile was carrying two teenage males when it went through the ice.

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