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Jul 31, 2024 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - Power was out again at The Westwood Mall for half of Wednesday. This was the third time the power was shut off since March. TV6 did talk to Mike Kohan last week about the outages – six days before the power went out. In that phone call, Kohan told TV6 “It’s not going to happen again.”Kohan’s pattern of not paying utility bills and then electricity being turned off applies to several of his malls. It’s left business owners with more questions.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - In March, the mall in Marquette Township lost power for nearly a week. Then again in June, the mall’s owner didn’t pay the electric bill on time. TV6 started looking into the mall’s owner and found the mall’s situation is not unique, and the unpaid electric bills were just the beginning. A mall in Iowa is facing a similar situation, but power has been out there for nine months – a problem business owners in the U.P. don’t want to see.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
allauthor.com | Grace Blair |Cheryl Carpinello |J. Daniel Reed |Dimitar Gyopsaliev
$3.99 kindle Free with KUeBook, Paperback, Signed Paperback, Series: The Skulduggery TrilogyHistorical Mystery Thriller Action & Adventure Historical Romance Time Travel Romance Historical Fiction History Book OverviewThe bleak Pennine moors of Yorkshire, a beautiful, harsh place, close to the sky, rugged and rough, no boundaries 'cept the horizon which in some places went on forever. Green pastures and wayward hills, the colours of ochre, brown and pink in the Spring.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Clint McLeod |Grace Blair
INWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - The community gathered in the Manistique area Saturday to support Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital. The hospital put on its Third Annual Gala Fundraiser, A Night Under the Stars. All proceeds will fund life-saving medical equipment. The sold-out event at the Inwood Township Hall supported the purchase of new ultrasound equipment for the hospital’s operating room. With an interactive piano bar experience, organizers raised more than $4,000. Copyright 2024 WLUC.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
ahajournals.org | Rachel Padget |Michael J. Zeitz |Grace Blair |Xiaobo Wu
James W. Smyth Correspondence to: James W. Smyth, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, 2 Riverside Cir, Roanoke, VA 24016. Email E-mail Address: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-7904 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. (R.G.G., S.P., J.W.S.) Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
UPPER PENINSULA Mich. (WLUC) - Many people in fire departments across the U.P. say there used to be a waiting list to join but that’s not the case anymore. For many, joining a fire department is a family tradition. Like Cory Frisk, the chief of the L’Anse Volunteer Fire Department. “My grandfather was in the fire service and my dad was in the fire service which led me to kind of hang around and be at the fire station with them.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) - As we enter colder weather and the holidays, the number of fire calls will increase. But right now, there’s a nationwide shortage of firefighters. According to the National Volunteer Fire Council, in 2010 there were 768,150 volunteer firefighters across the nation. In 2020, there were 676,900. That’s a 12-percent decrease. But the number of calls increased by 29.1 percent. In 2022, volunteer firefighters across the U.P. were called out 9,891 times.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) - For people experiencing food insecurity, local resources can be a big help, especially for kids in school. Feeding America West Michigan and the ALICE Report say food insecurity can impact anyone. Being food insecure doesn’t mean people are lazy or can’t handle their money. It means they might not have the necessary resources to get the food they need. “That puts a lot of stress on the family.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
uppermichiganssource.com | Grace Blair
UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) - Food insecurity is something that can impact anyone. Feeding America West Michigan is just one of the resources available to families. “I can’t accept the fact that any of us are one or two life events away from needing help,” said Ken Estelle, president and CEO of Feeding America West Michigan. Feeding America West Michigan works every day to fight food insecurity. Being food insecure isn’t just being hungry; it’s not having reliable access to nutritional food.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
lonestarliterary.com | Beth Fehlbaum |Grace Blair |Eva Silverfine |Ann Jacobus
New books added daily through July 28, 2023. Click the covers to purchase. JUMP TO CHILDREN'S -|||- JUMP TO MIDDLE GRADERETURN TO WELCOMENew books added daily through July 28, 2023YOUNG ADULT / FICTION / COMING-OF-AGE / EATING DISORDERSBig Fat DisasterBy Beth FehlbaumSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers286 Pages; hardcover, paperback, eBook Insecure, shy, and way overweight, Colby hates the limelight as much as her pageant-pretty mom and sisters love it.
