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MDOT keeping most rest areas open

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GAYLORD — The Michigan Department of Transportation will keep nearly all of the state’s 77 rest areas open this winter to maintain the convenience and safety they provide to motorists but will again close five seasonal areas beginning Dec. 2. Only five rest areas are closed each year for ...

Spirit Airlines in bankruptcy

Business

Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel, stiffer competition from bigger carriers, and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue. Spirit, the biggest U.S. ...

Somewhere: New IM store has touches of old Wishing Well shop

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IRON MOUNTAIN — After a year of speculation and months of renovation, the wait is over. Somewhere is now open for business at 427 S. Stephenson Ave. in the Downtown Plaza, the corner storefront formerly occupied for 54 years by Don Khoury’s The Wishing Well gift shop. Despite some ...

Norway looks to replace aging Knights’ Kingdom

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NORWAY — The Knights’ Kingdom playground equipment at Strawberry Lake Park in Norway has seen better days. Built in 1993, Knights’ Kingdom did not originate with the City of Norway. Instead, a committee of community members that included Lorna Flesher and Donna Hayes partnered with ...

Michigan’s rural areas losing young people and political clout

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LANSING — The number of young people moving to small towns and rural areas across America has been increasing, but not so in Michigan, where populations in rural areas are shrinking and aging, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau. This national trend reverses a pattern ...

Judge denies bowhunt request for man who shot neighbor’s dog

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ESCANABA — A Rock man given a delayed sentencing for fatally shooting his neighbor’s dog asked that terms of that arangement be modified to allow him to bow hunt. David Ralph Hayes, 66, of 3474 St. Nicholas 31st Road, was charged with killing/torturing — third degree, but 47th Circuit ...