HANCOCK — Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly’s Hancock chapter has been transporting seniors to their medical appointments since the beginning, when it was just former Executive Director Mike Aten giving people rides to the doctor’s office in his car. It’s grown since then. Last ...
High in the sky, in those Air Force fighter jets he used to pilot, they called Lt. Col. Mark Smith “Chimp.” Why, you might ask. First, because all fighter pilots have one-word nicknames. They call them tac call signs—tac for tactical—and they use them to communicate with each other ...
Justin Fitch was born and raised in Hayward, Wisconsin. He enjoyed the sciences, computers and math, and so began his journey at Michigan Tech in 2000. Fitch always looked up to students who were in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Fitch joined the Army ROTC program himself the ...
CALUMET TOWNSHIP — In honor of the 2024 National VFW Day of Service, VFW Post 3900 announced it was leading a community effort to clean up the Veterans Honor Roll in Copper City on Saturday, May 11, in preparation for Memorial Day. By Saturday morning, however, the cleanup was complete, with ...
While the American Civil War has been relegated to some chapter in American history, that it ended some 159 years ago somehow places the conflict out of contemporary context. Yet, while the war raged, from April 1861 to April 1865, Michigan’s firmly pro-Union legislature ensured that each of ...
HANCOCK — Jim Kurtti remembers years ago, standing outside one Midsummer evening, etching in his mind all of the sights and sounds of the dance and celebration that was taking place in his rural Upper Michigan hometown, Bruce Crossing. Though he was still young at the time, he suspected this ...