There is an old saying: “You can choose your friends, but you can’t pick your relatives.” So be it, but I would have picked my sister, Pauline, both as a friend and a relative. We started out together ...

Gary Salo enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1969 at the age of 20. Following boot camp, hewas promoted to PFC and went to machine gun school in Camp Horno, at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San ...

It was a skull-tastic time Friday night at the Manistique Merchants Skeletour event on Cedar Street. The weather was perfect as families trick-or-treated through downtown businesses. As the night went ...

MANISTIQUE - GFWC Manistique welcomed five guests to their October Club meeting. Eileen Pugh led them in an invocation about a humorous poem, “If I were a Bear.” Guest speaker Linda Romps gave a brief ...

While Halloween is traditionally one of the most dangerous nights of the year for both pedestrians and drivers, the risks are even higher this year. With the holiday falling on a Friday, AAA is ...

Low-to moderate income taxpayers received a financial boost this year through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for Working Families, putting more money back into the pockets of Michigan’s working ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday lives—helping us find books, movies, recipes, and, of course, news. Many of the news stories we see online are chosen for us by AI systems ...

The women of First United Methodist Church will hold their monthly pasty sale on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 12 and 13, at the church, located at 190 N. ( Cedar St. in Manistique. Pasties are ...

For the second time this season, the Manistique Emeralds varsity football team was defeated by the gridiron gang from Iron Mountain. Hoping that a trip to the Central Time Zone would get the Emeralds ...

COOKS - The Big Bay de Noc Black Bears emerged victorious in a thrilling five-set match against the Superior Central Cougars in their final regular season game of the 2025 season. Scores: 16-25, 25-20 ...

Mary Alice Guertin (nee Lambert), born on Sept. 28, 1942, to James Walter Lambert and Luella Mary Lambert (nee Sangraw), passed peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. She is preceded in death by one ...

Drew Justin Brooks, 55, of Atlanta, Mich., took his final trip around the sun on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. He was born in Alpena, Mich., on April 13, 1970, to the late Terry and Carol (Hermanson) Brooks ...