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City meetings scheduled

By Daily News staff Iron Mountain City Council will meet at 6 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. The agenda includes a public hearing on accepting a donation of land in the 900 block of Walker Street. For more, go to https://www.cityofironmountain.com/. Kingsford City Council will meet ...

English art at KHS

The Kingsford High School English 9 classes use art throughout the year to review and reinforce concepts learned in class. Shown are students with examples of creative projects completed during the first quarter. Students have 12 options for reporting on their quarterly independently read ...

Forest Service has funding available

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is making up to $34 million in funding available to support innovation and jobs in the forestry sector while supporting healthy forest landscapes. The agency is seeking proposals that will spark innovation, create new markets ...

SA Red Kettle campaign ready to ring the bells in Florence County

FLORENCE, Wis. — Bells will soon be heard in Florence County, as the 2024 Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign gets underway Thursday. In order to make this year’s campaign a success, they are in need of volunteers to ring bells at Pat’s Foods in Florence and the Aurora BP/Liquor Store ...

Traffic rises, terminal expansion planned at airport

KINGSFORD — Dickinson County’s Ford Airport is on pace to exceed 20,000 commercial boardings this year and possibly surpass the record of 22,980 enplanements set in pre-pandemic 2019. Facing the need for more terminal space, the idea of building a new two-story structure will be scrapped ...

Canada jays may be on the watch for camp spoils

One of the other residents along Six Mile Lake Road reported seeing in her backyard earlier this week what’s unfortunately become a rarer bird in the region: a Canada jay. This is the only other jay that can naturally occur in the Upper Peninsula, along with the more familiar and common ...