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1 week ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
GLADSTONE — The Gladstone City Commission granted approval for Mayor Joe Thompson to sign a formal letter of support recognizing the Gladstone Housing Commission’s intent to designate Fairview Manor under Section 18 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 (as amended in 1998). Section 18, which is for demolition and disposition, grants a housing commission authority to demolish public housing.
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1 week ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
Apr 14, 2025 EDITOR NOTE: The Daily Press will be featuring a series of articles on local businesses, highlighting their history and what makes them unique.
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1 week ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
Apr 14, 2025 [email protected] GLADSTONE — Students at Cameron Elementary School were treated to a visit from children’s author and illustrator Aaron Zenz recently. The Michigan-based creator read books of his own design to the kids, discussed what his job entails, made the children laugh with a drawing demonstration aided by a puppet, and explained the process of creating a book. The first book Zenz ever wrote, “The Hiccupotamus,” was published in 2005. He’s illustrated 44 other...
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1 week ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
Apr 12, 2025 Staff Writer [email protected] ESCANABA — Players de Noc, the volunteer community theater organization that performs primarily at the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, enters its 60th year in 2025. In February 1965, at a meeting at Bay de Noc Community College, the “newly formed little theater group” of the Escanaba area selected a name and appointed its first officers, as the Daily Press reported at the time. Dotty Williams was the president. John “Jack” Romstad was the...
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2 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
ESCANABA — Before the Michigan State Police implemented it at all 30 of their posts in December 2017, the Angel Program in Escanaba launched in February 2016 to provide help to people who struggle with substance use. Both continue to offer assistance today, with the help of volunteers called “angels” who drive people to treatment centers.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
GLADSTONE — A special joint meeting of the Gladstone City Commission and the Gladstone Housing Commission took place on Monday so that the Housing Commission could update the city on its plans for Fairview Manor, an aging building with ongoing issues, and ask for a letter of support from the mayor. The Housing Commission intends to build two new buildings to replace the 50-unit Fairview, which would be razed — eventually, not immediately.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
ESCANABA — As spring arrives, black bears will be emerging from dens, hungry after their hibernation. To reduce potential conflicts with bears in human environments, the best action that people can take is to remove available food sources. It won’t be until later in the spring and summer that bears’ preferred food — berries, acorns and other fruits and budding plants — will be out in full force, so the animals have to seek out things to eat in the meanwhile.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
By R. R. [email protected] NOTE: The Daily Press will be featuring a series of articles on local businesses, highlighting their history and what makes them unique. The series will run on a regular basis in the Daily Press. — — —ESCANABA — Camping World in Escanaba sells, services and refurbishes new and used campers and motorhomes.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
Apr 4, 2025 [email protected] ESCANABA — The Escanaba Kiwanis Club annual Home and Garden Show — the event that famously includes a pancake breakfast as part of its major fundraiser — starts today. The show is bringing together over 40 vendors to the Ruth Butler Building (RBB) today through Sunday. This year, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and juice will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. today; from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday; and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. Though the show...
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3 weeks ago | 
dailypress.net | R. R. Branstrom
Apr 2, 2025 [email protected] ESCANABA — For the past several Tuesdays, a small group of activists has taken to the intersection of Lincoln and Ludington in Escanaba. A little after noon Tuesday, there were nine people on three of the four corners, displaying signs of protest directed at the federal administration. The numbers might not seem impressive, but the group is being noticed. Sporadic but frequent honking from vehicles has now also come to the intersection between 11 a.m. and...
