You’ve probably donated to charities. You’ve filled a sack with spare soups and pasta for a food pantry. But have you considered giving yourself back to Mother Earth? That’s what green burial is all about—returning your body to nature when you’re done with it, without toxic ...

Press release HANCOCK, Mich. — When she was a child, Mary (Aho) Brunet knew she had Finnish roots, but in her youth and among her family and friends, ethnic culture wasn’t readily celebrated. “We weren’t encouraged to be too much into the Finnish stuff,” she said. “We had a ...

HANCOCK — For those who need a reminder, Heikinpäivä, the annual celebration of mid-winter, is scheduled to kick off later this month. Along with the annual celebration will be Sew Cranky’s annual Snowflake Challenge. Ginger Alberti, who owns Sew Cranky with her husband, Michael, is ...

Christmas was not the only game in town in 1914.Whether there was a concerted effort among Copper Country residents to ensure that Christmas 1914 was far better for the region’s children than the previous year, by all accounts, the endeavors of the residents met their efforts. What started ...

WASHINGTON — “We the People” is Jill Biden’s holiday theme with White House decorations designed for “the people” to see themselves in the tree ornaments, mantel displays, mirrors and do-it-yourself creations that have turned the mansion’s public spaces into a winter ...

Animal experts, like those at Oodle Life, a website that provides dog and puppy information, have warned that the ‘Disneyfication’ or anthropomorphism of pets this Christmas can cause significant harm to them. A release from whitehotpr.com, of Portland, Oregon, states that many pet ...