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Recent Stories
Latest news from around Northern Michigan, the State of Michigan and the Nation/World
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Dr. Augusta Rosenthal-Thompson was the first female physician in Traverse City in the late 1800’s. She had her own practice at the age of 25, and worked in Traverse City for 25 years.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Emilia Schaub was born in 1891 to German immigrants in a log cabin in Leelanau County. She was Michigan’s first woman to be elected and serve as county prosecutor.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Art Duhamel was a member of The Grand Traverse Band of Native Americans in Peshawbestown. He was also a fisherman by trade. He played an important role in getting the Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians their fishing rights and recognition as a tribe by the U.S. government. The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians gained their federal recognition by the U.S. government May 27, 1980.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
In a first, census figures show minorities make up more than half of babies born in US
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
A northern Michigan school is being studied by the University of Michigan.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony.
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