Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WAKEFIELD - For Wakefield resident Jeannie Tabb, Ukraine is home away from home. It's a place where she teaches, learns and sees history in the making. Recently, Tabb returned from Kiev after a 15-day trip. She traveled with an English club with the Campus Crusade ministry at Kiev Polytechnic Institute. "It's a short-term opportunity for college students to speak conversational English with native speakers," Tabb said. "We use the Bible with segments for lessons." Tabb, originally from Houston,...
SUPERIOR, Wis. - The luck of the Irish was with students of the Ironwood Dance Company who competed at the Ultimate Talent Connection's Spring Fling Dance and Twirling Competition Saturday in Superior, director Margret Grachek said. "It was a great weekend of competition for the Ironwood Dance Company teams, soloists and duets," Grachek said. "The competition gives each dancer an opportunity to challenge themselves against hundreds of other dancers from throughout the Midwest. This is how...
WASHINGTON (AP) - They were heroes who didn't get their due. On Tuesday, 24 mostly ethnic or minority U.S. soldiers who performed bravely under fire in three of the nation's wars finally received the Medal of Honor that the government concluded should have been awarded a long time ago. The servicemen - Hispanics, Jews and African-Americans - were identified following a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients of the country's highest recognition for valor were not...
LANSING (AP) - Michigan will partner with a major national business group to help active-duty members find jobs after leaving the military. The state is among three chosen to pilot a new initiative by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes program, Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday at his economic summit in Grand Rapids. With extra promotion by the program's "All Vet States" initiative, state officials are hoping to raise Michigan's visibility on U.S. bases around the world...