Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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LANSING (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a law restoring a state tuition assistance program for active-duty Michigan National Guard members, making them eligible for reimbursement of up to $4,500 a year. The state had a similar program for a decade that ended in 2009 because of budget cuts and expanded federal education benefits after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Until Tuesday's bill signing at the National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Lansing, Michigan was one of seven...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Thousands of young people and some more weathered hikers are trekking up a path that cuts through aspen and pine to a summit of a Utah mountain about 60 miles east of Salt Lake City. The group includes train hoppers, students, lawyers, architects and others, members say. But each belongs to the Rainbow Family, which has convened every year since 1972, sometimes in two states at once, to join in prayers for peace, sing-a-longs in the travelling Granola Funk theater and...
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) - Museums and musicians are concerned that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's stricter rules on the transport of items containing elephant ivory are inflicting unintended complications on the music community. The new strategy for fighting trafficking through enforcement, approved by President Barack Obama in February, puts a near complete ban on the commercial trade of elephant ivory. Musicians and collectors say the rules will limit their ability to travel abroad with...
LINDEN, Mich. - Vera Josephine (Niemi) Jansson, 91, formerly of Bessemer, died in peace Monday, May 12, 2014, surrounded by family, at the Argentine Care Center in Linden. The 11th of 14 children, she was born on Aug. 24, 1922, to Andrew and Johanna (Purola) Niemi, both immigrants from Finland. As a young woman, Vera worked first as a long-distance operator for Michigan Bell in Detroit and later as a PBX operator and receptionist at Allied Products Corp. She married Rurik Ragnvald Jansson, also...
