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Sunday: Our Youth

ART IN THE WILD

HOUGHTON — There’s nothing like a wilderness to inspire artistic creativity. Even if you’re a teenager. Applications for Isle Royale National Park’s 2022 Teen Artist Exploration are being accepted through Feb. 16, the National Park Service announced. This artistic endeavor is geared ...

8-18 Media: Life with Jack

Hi, my name is Indie. I'm 9- years- old and I am going to tell you about a living fluff ball a.k.a. my dog, Jack. If you want to know what he looks like, just picture the perfect marshmallow. My mom rescued him from a hoarding situation. When we first got him he was all knotted and stank as ...

8-18 Media: Cultural travels, part 2

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part column series on a school trip to Chicago. Part one ran in the Dec. 11-12 weekend edition. Once everyone had finished purchasing their items from the El Condor grocery store, it was time to go to our next stop. However, we did not have access to ...

8-18 Media: ‘Bracing’ for a long-awaited moment

I’ve written before about my long journey with my oral health, which is affected greatly by the condition I inherited from my mother, Gorlin Syndrome. For the past eight years of my life, I’ve undergone nine oral surgeries to remove tumors in my jaw. While beneficial to my health, these ...

PREPARING PROSE

MARQUETTE — Upper Peninsula students in grades five through 12 who are interested in submitting to the Dandelion Cottage Student Short Story Contest sponsored by the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association are invited to sign up for a free short story writing workshop. Space is ...

Trying to make the team can be stressful

The bell furiously rang at 2:40 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, meaning that the school day had officially ended ... but not for everyone. Most people by that time had prepared for tryouts for either the volleyball team or the badminton team, both of which are extremely competitive at Al Bayan ...