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The flooding in Au Train has significantly slowed down, with the river dropping over two feet at its mouth into Lake Superior. “There are three areas where the water is flowing out very nicely.

Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication!

Senator Debbie Stabenow will not seek re-election and will leave the U.S. Senate at the end of her term on January 3, 2025, turning Michigan into a battleground state for partisan control of that chamber of Congress.

The annual holiday lighting decoration competitions have wrapped up in the Upper Peninsula, with a local home winning the UPPCO Holiday Lighting Contest and numerous more local locations receiving votes. Ultimately the Ackermans on Gates Road won the U.P.-wide competition by over 200 votes. The bright display took 932 votes, defeating a Calumet home receiving 712 votes.

The Munising Beacon continues the tradition of recapping the major stories of the year for public review. Since this is our first year of operation, the stories only go back until May, but still provides the public with a selection of stories impacting the area. Look for our first installation in the December 30, 2022 edition and join us next week as we wrap up 2022 in the next edition of The Munising Beacon.

“I’m traveling light because I might be going far, taking nothing but the clothes on my back and this big red guitar, I’m just restless,” – Carl Perkins In the darkness of this place, I can hear the clock ticking from the adjacent room. The sound is stark and commanding in its repetition.