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Portage Township is consolidating its polling places. At its meeting on Monday, the Township Board completed the process of reducing the number of on-site voting locations from three to two. Supervisor Bruce Peterson explained that, as more people take advantage of easier absentee voting, fewer people are expected to show …

Michigan’s most iconic hotel has been sold. The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is being taken over by a private equity firm called KSL Capital Partners. The announcement was made yesterday by hotel chairman R.D. (Dan) Musser III, whose family has owned the historic hotel since the 1930s. Musser will …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service is making an additional 150-million dollars available to United States counties who suffered disaster losses last year. The good news is that the list includes Houghton, Gogebic and Menominee Counties, which experienced significant damage in the Father’s Day Flood. The bad news …