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By Tom Kramer

  This week we’re beginning a new series looking at some of the architectural landmarks around Northern...

This is the first installment in our occasional series, "Art Around the Corner." For ideas of works of art "around the corner" in your neighborhood, E-Mail Brad

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By Bob Allen

Newspapers around the region are reporting the discovery of a piece of shipwreck at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A photographer from Kingsley is circulating...

From Staff Reports

Michigan is celebrating 175 years of statehood today.

To become a state Michigan bartered away the city of Toledo in exchange for the entire Upper Peninsula, a move that was controversial at the time....

By Aebra Coe

  Human remains discovered at a construction site on Mackinac Island in November are being reburied this week. But an official on Mackinac Island says the city will...

By Linda Stephan

A Traverse City library is making it easier for people to look up old family announcements and historical articles from the local newspaper. Osterlin Library at...

By Brad Aspey

A Manistee man is trying to prove Father Pere Marquette died in Manistee. That makes four northern Michigan communities at odds over where the legendary explorer died. The...

By Linda Stephan

A little town in northeast Michigan is starting to get a reputation for its massive steel sculptures, including a bust of George Washington.

Some of the other...

By Brad Aspey

The History Center of Traverse City announced Thursday that it will restore a film made in town in 1940 titled "We're in the Movies."

It's a 45-minute long, 16-...

By Peter Payette

Historian Helen Tanner died last week at age 94. Her work was crucial to Indian tribes that fought in court to keep hunting and fishing rights in northern Michigan....

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