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Sep 29, 20264 min read

The Tower of History Went Up in Sault Ste. Marie in 1968 as a Catholic Shrine to the Missionaries. The Church Planned Around It Never Came, and Now It Is a 210-Foot Elevator Ride Over the Soo Locks.

Sault Ste. Marie's Tower of History was built in 1968 as a shrine to the missionaries, one piece of a church complex that never got finished. Now it is an express elevator to 210...

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Jul 27, 20264 min read

Every New Year’s Day, a U.P. University Tells the World Which Words to Stop Using. It Started as a Party Joke in 1975.

The LSSU Banished Words List has run every January 1 since 1976. A PR man who used to work in newspapers knew...

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Jul 26, 20264 min read

Nearly 90% of the Cargo at the Soo Locks Fits Through Exactly One Gate. Homeland Security Calls It America’s Achilles Heel.

Lake Superior sits 21 feet above the rest of the Great Lakes, and one 1,200-foot chamber in Sault Ste. Marie carries almost...

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Jul 10, 20264 min read

A Whiskey Smuggler Got Caught in the U.P. After the Crew Drank Too Much of Their Own Cargo

During Prohibition, whiskey poured across the U.P.’s Canadian border, sometimes with the Coast Guard’s help. It starts with a tug called the...

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Jun 24, 20265 min read

What Public Records Show About Data Centers in the U.P.

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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Jun 24, 20263 min read

A Stolen Car, a Knife, and a Dollar General: Inside a Wild Eastern U.P. Arrest

It started with a stolen car in Green Bay and ended with a man bolting into a Kincheloe Dollar General, begging a...

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Jun 3, 20263 min read

A U.P. University Has Been Releasing Atlantic Salmon Into the Same River for 40 Years — and Tomorrow They’re Celebrating

Updated July 13, 2026: The June 4 public celebration described below has passed. This page is retained as an archival explanation of...

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