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BIZARRE: Upper peninsula - You Need To See This

At 20, Finnish immigrant Maggie Walz arrived in Michigan with just $7; in 1903 she claimed 160 acres on a Lake Huron island and the colony she founded grew to five settlements with around 1,000 people

Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came to the United States at the age of 20 with almost nothing, just $7 in her pocket and a determination to build a new life. According to the National Park Service (NPS), Walz arrived in Michigan’s Upper…

The Times of India

‘We’re all aging. Father Time hasn’t beaten me yet’: Nick Baumgartner on snowboarding in the Olympics at 44

The Upper Peninsula snowboarder races his fifth Olympic Games on Thursday, drawing on a career shaped by construction sites, small-town winters and the belief he could still reach the 2034 Games on home soil

The Guardian - US

Great Lakes region preparing for bad weather as lake-effect snowfall ingredients begin mixing

Cold air is sweeping across the Great Lakes region, bringing lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Western New York

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Michigan Is Spending Millions Trying To Refurbish a Ski-Flying Hill. It's Not Working.

Copper Peak revitalization was pitched as an economic development project for the Upper Peninsula, which already has two working ski jumps.

Reason

Grand jury indicts Michigan man accused of vowing mass killing at East Lansing synagogue

DETROIT — A federal grand jury has indicted an Upper Peninsula man accused of posting online threats to attack and kill people, U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Michigan man vowed mass killing at East Lansing synagogue, FBI says

DETROIT — FBI agents Friday arrested an Upper Peninsula man accused of threatening a mass killing at an East Lansing synagogue on the fifth anniversary of an attack that killed 51 people in New Zealand.

Tribune News Service

Michigan's Upper Peninsula gets 2 feet of snow, a May record

The National Weather Service says a record May snowfall buried parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula under more than 2 feet of snow this week

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Retired miner sentenced to federal prison after FBI finds homemade pipe bombs across Michigan

DETROIT — A retired miner accused of leaving pipe bombs and threatening letters across northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday in a case that raised fears of an imminent domestic terror attack.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Women Could Fly,' by Megan Giddings

FICTION: Megan Giddings turns the wilds of the Upper Peninsula into a land where magic and oppression exist side-by-side.

Tribune News Service

A Michigan marvel: Grand Island's ice caves reveal brutal beauty

MUNISING, Mich. — Along the eastern shore of Lake Superior's Grand Island, giant icicles drip from the cliffs like fangs, a fitting reminder that winter in the Upper Peninsula has a bite.

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