People and everyday U.P. life
Neighbors, organizations, traditions, local projects, and the routines that make Upper Peninsula communities distinct.
The Michigan DNR confirmed cougar reproduction in the U.P. for the first time in over a century. Readers who saw cougars here decades ago were told they were wrong.
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The Mackinac Bridge closes to traffic Monday morning for the annual Bridge Walk. Here is what the Bridge Authority actually says about the rules,...
Those bright yellow dispensers at U.P. parks and beaches are free for anyone, and the story behind them is one of love and loss...
The Iron County Fair runs August 27 to 30 in Iron River. Its 1931 exhibition hall, an eight-sided concrete-block building with three wings, is...
Two seasonal residents started the Les Cheneaux boat show in Hessel in 1978 with 30 volunteers. It now draws about 150 antique boats each...
The Jampot monks arrived on the Keweenaw in 1983, moved into an abandoned hamburger stand with no heat or plumbing, and started picking wild...
The LSSU Banished Words List has run every January 1 since 1976. A PR man who used to work in newspapers knew exactly why...
The Yooper definition entered Merriam-Webster in 2014 after a Delta County prosecutor lost a Scrabble challenge and spent a decade mailing proof to a...
Dean Oswald dreamed of having a bear since childhood. Forty years, 240 acres, and one 880-pound legend later, Oswald’s Bear Ranch near Newberry is...
Finnish squeaky cheese, the juustoa Yoopers drop in their coffee, was quietly dying out in U.P. farm kitchens. The trail that revived it ran...
Henry Ford built an entire town from scratch in Michigan's U.P., named it after a little girl, and barely used it. The strange, true...
One early InvestUP inquiry, a remanded Dafter lawsuit, local moratorium records, Michigan tax rules, and what remains unverified about U.P. data centers.
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