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Proposals Sought To Fight Food Insecurity

The numbers are staggering: Over half of the people receiving food from the local food bank are from working families; about 18 percent of them are elderly; 60 percent of the children in the region qualify for free or reduced meals; and 35 percent of local kids are either overweight …

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Family Protests Over Leah Harding Search Effort

The search continues for Leah Harding…or does it? The South Range woman was 31-years old when she went missing in April of 2015. Friends and family of Leah gathered outside the Houghton County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday to bring attention to what they feel is a lack of interest in finding …

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Michiganders Joining In Pipeline Protest

A protest by Native Americans in North Dakota over the Dakota Access oil pipeline, is drawing Native Americans from Michigan. Eric Rodriguez is with the Saginaw-Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, who says they’re protesting the pipeline on ancestral burial grounds and there are concerns about the water supply. Rodriguez says …

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