http://www.yourstreet.com/news/upper-peninsula YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us The Upper Peninsula Association of American Legion Posts, which comprise the 11th and 12th districts in the Upper Peninsula, will meet for a fall conference at Reino American Legion Post 21 in Stambaugh Saturday, October 10. The Sons of the American Legion and the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743614/american-legion-fall-conference-meets-saturday-in-stambaugh Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:29:08 -0700 By Michael Ayala Jan Barrett of McMillan struggled to keep up with the visitors to her booth at the Naubinway Fall Fest Saturday, September 12. As soon as she finished selling one photograph of a landscape in the Upper Peninsula, another person would ask her about... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6735415/photos,-stained-glass,-and-peanut-butter-mark-naubinway-fall-fest Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:43:08 -0700 By Linda Livermore 595-7283 The red sun slowly setting in the sky makes a perfect backdrop to a great Upper Peninsula picture of bales of hay, perfectly round, standing silently in the freshly mowed field, leaves turning orange around the edges, the sounds of Friday... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6727606/rexton-garnet Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:33:08 -0700 ISHPEMING, Mich. (AP) - A legally blind woman has bagged a bear in the Upper Peninsula.   Jaime Villa says she's tried for several years to obtain the required tag needed to hunt bears in Michigan. The state holds a lottery for the tags. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6720030/legally-blind-mich-hunter-gets-black-bear Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:50:08 -0700 Free Press sports writer Jo-Ann Barnas lends her views on Olympic sports: GOLD: Bet you didn't know that you can get to Lexington, Ky., and Rochester, N.Y., in less time than it takes to drive the 455 miles from Detroit to Marquette in the Upper Peninsula. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6644432/jo-ann-barnas-marquette,-olympic-hotbed Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:00:08 -0700 A Carpentersville man missing since mid-June was found dead Saturday in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6620589/missing-carpentersville-man-found-dead-in-michigan Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:06:08 -0700 SAULT STE. MARIE ? Many northern Michigan residents consider reed canary grass a noxious weed. Researchers at Lake Superior State University are testing its usefulness as a renewable heating fuel. Gregory Zimmerman heads the biology department at the Sault Ste.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6593418/researcher-fast-growing-weed-could-heat-homes Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:23:08 -0700 PARADISE, Mich. (AP) - It's blueberry time in Paradise.   The 26th Annual Wild Blueberry Festival kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday in the Upper Peninsula community along Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior.   Events include a http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6586391/wild-blueberry-festival-kicks-off-in-paradise Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:23:20 -0700 MORAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a Gaylord teen and his grandfather have drowned in Lake Michigan in the Upper Peninsula's Mackinac County after being overcome by large waves.   The Michigan State Police in St. Ignace said in a http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6566625/gaylord-teen,-grandfather-drown-in-lake-michigan Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:12:30 -0700 Authorities say a Gaylord teen and his grandfather have drowned in Lake Michigan in the Upper Peninsula's Mackinac County after being overcome by large waves. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6561557/gaylord-teen,-grandfathedrown-in-lake-michigan Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:38:08 -0700 Authorities say crews are battling a 120-acre wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6555333/crews-battle-120-acre-wildfire-in-up Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:47:08 -0700 CRYSTAL FALLS, Mich. (AP) - A parade, concerts and other festivities are planned in the Upper Peninsula to celebrate an ancient fungus that covers about 37 acres in Iron County.   The 18th annual Humungus Fungus Fest begins Thursday and runs http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6494054/4-day-up-festival-to-celebrate-huge-ancient-fungus Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:18:04 -0700 Breaking Video... First elected in 1992, Bart Stupak represents one of the largest sprawling Congressional districts in the Nation. It includes the upper half of "the Mitt" of Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. At an open forum, the Democrat Congressman refused to... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6488878/libertarian-republican-democrat-cong-bart-stupak-avoids-his-constituents- Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:29:08 -0700 A locomotive that was used at an Upper Peninsula mine until it halted operations in 1945 has returned. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6468437/locomotive-used-at-up-mine-decades-ago-returns Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:01:08 -0700 HANCOCK, Mich. (AP) - Four people have died in an apartment fire in Hancock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.   Michigan State Police say the fire may have been deliberately set, but they have no suspects.   The fire was reported about 5 http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6426451/4-dead-as-fire-sweeps-downtown-hancock-building Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:14:48 -0700 Hancock -- Four people have died in an apartment fire in Hancock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6426829/four-dead-as-fire-sweeps-hancock-building Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:22:08 -0700 Four people have died in an apartment fire in Hancock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6426347/4-killed-in-hancock-fire Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:26:08 -0700 "I ain't never rode no wild river, Gus. But I was married once." —Logging camp cook Sonny Hoskins, from the novel Colorado Moon I went white-water rafting last weekend in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. On the way downriver, when it was too late to turn back, I... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6391146/rafting-down-the-aisle Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:09:36 -0700 An infant is back home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula following a seven-month stay at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. The Daily Globe of Ironwood reports Cody Nelson Grotberg returned to Bessemer on Tuesday in time to celebrate his first birthday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6298931/mich-infant-home-in-after-mpls-hospital-stay Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:32:08 -0700 LANSING — Twelve women from Newberry in the Upper Peninsula claimed a $12.7-million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot today. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6294762/dozen-up-women-among-12-7m-lottery-winners Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:17:08 -0700