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Image for Pride Month activities is a painting by Jasper Sowle, part of an exhibition called "Art Speaks Pride" on display through July 6 at the Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts in Manistee.

Pride Month activities begin this week in Manistee

May 29, 2025 No Comments

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Image for Remembering PFC Erby H. Roper shows his gravesite in the Belgian cemetery at left and a head-and-shoulders photo of Erby wearing a hat prior to his enlistment. The bottom right photo is of his brother holding the folded flag service members families receive when a loved one dies during wartime. All photos courtesy of the author.

Remembering PFC Erby H. Roper

May 26, 2025 No Comments

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Images for Spring awakens in Benzonia are from left, a white morel in the palm of a hand, a monarch butterfly, wings open, on one of many pink flowers and a swan swimming on a lake reflecting the orange and pink hues of either dawn or dusk. Photos by Botony Newton-Knudson.

Spring awakens in Benzonia

May 25, 2025 No Comments

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Kyle Storey, of Manistee County Planning Department, shares information about the proposed SMARTrails system during the 2019 Copemish Heritage Festival. File photo by Mark Videan.

$1.75M SMART trail project moves forward in Manistee County

May 23, 2025 No Comments

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Elberta Turtlefest activities planned

May 21, 2025 No Comments

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My Idlewild actors performing on the stage with a band at the Ramsdell in Manistee as tables set below the stage hold audience members of the nightclub.

‘My Idlewild’ celebrates high notes of an exciting era

May 11, 2025 No Comments

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Local Earth Day celebration to be held April 26

April 6, 2025 No Comments

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Image for Souper Fridays is of a handwoven basket hanging on a wooden peg of a log cabin with chinking between the logs. Hanging on the peg Next to the basket is a white shawl.

‘Souper’ Fridays offer food, museum tours

April 3, 2025 No Comments

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Image for left out of the conversation is the word rubella written in Braille using red dots. The concept for this artwork is author Lois Beardslee's and the artwork was done by Mark Videan.

Left out of the conversation: measles in the womb

April 1, 2025 No Comments

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Image for Native Plant Sale is of butterflies and a bee on native plants. Top three images courtesy of AFFEW. Bee image by Jennifer Devine. Coneflower by Victoria Li on Unsplash.

Online orders for native plants end Sunday night

March 26, 2025 No Comments

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Image for Craft beverage sales to benefit Michigan native fish species is of gloved hands holding a young Arctic grayling from the Oden State Fish Hatchery and below that photo is one of a pair of hands, palms up, holding a small sturgeon, ready to be released into the Manistee River below it. Photo is from the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.

Craft beverage sales to benefit Michigan native fish species

March 20, 2025 No Comments

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Image for taking steps to conserve dark skies is by William Markey. The northern lights in white and green against the dark sky illuminate trees in the foreground. A beam of red light known as STEVE also appears in the photo, taken on Beaver Island.

Taking steps to conserve dark skies in Michigan

March 18, 2025 No Comments

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