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Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I'm a 42-year-old mom of two. I've been remarried for three years, and I'm trying hard to do the blended family thing with grace. My husband has a 16-year-old daughter, "Mia," who lives with us half the time. Most days are fine, but there's one issue that has turned our home into a ...

Taking the plunge

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HANCOCK – Sunny skies and temperatures in the low teens greeted crowds of both participants and spectators to the Polar Plunge Saturday afternoon, as the event returned to Hancock after an absence of nearly a decade. “I talked about hundreds of people showing up and we’re seeing it ...

Multi-car accident in Marquette Co.

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CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP — More than a dozen vehicles were involed in an accident Friday afternoon in rural Marquette County. According to a press release from the Chocolay Township Police Departmet, shortly after 1:30 p.m. officers responded to a report of a multi-car accident on M-28 near the ...

Reverse the policy

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WASHINGTON — According to a press release issued Friday from Rep. Jack Bergman's (R-Watersmeet) office, on Jan.31, co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Postal Service Caucus led eight members of Congress in a letter to Postmaster General David P. Steiner, demanding that he reverse a new ...

Schoolcraft Fatality

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SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY — A crash on US-2 between a semi-truck and a pickup truck Friday night, February 6, 2026, resulted in one death and four people injured. According to a press release from the Michigan State Police, at approximately 9:16 p.m. Friday, troopers from the MSP Manistique Outpost ...

To your good health

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Why do people still die of pneumonia? With all the advances that we have seen in modern medicine, losing anyone to this ailment seems like such a waste. Is it a question of pneumonia being difficult to pin down because of the root cause, whether it's bacterial, viral or fungal? ...