Community supported agriculture is growing in popularity in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and boosting local businesses as it does. We talked to two CSA farmers about why and how they do what they do.
Sault Ste. Marie is hoping to crowdfund a community placemaking mural project in its downtown.
The paper mill in Manistique, after many ups and downs, has been re-opened by a local company.
The second new salon and school of cosmetology this year to open in Sault Ste. Marie just held a grand opening.
A northern Wisconsin bank has agreed to be purchased by mBank, in the second similar transaction this year.
Renovating old historic buildings helps preserve our "sense of place" while offering a new purpose for the building, like apartments or retail establishments. In the U.P., several buildings are or will be painstakingly restored and repurposed to meet the needs of the 21st century.
Would-be cosmetologists have a new resource in the Sault area, as a new salon and beauty academy is open.
Dogs in need of intense rehabilitation find discipline, love, and a new lease on life at the Alger Maximum Security Prison. Inmates live with the dogs, train the dogs, and send them on their way, ready to be adopted into their forever homes.
As a boy in Sault Ste, Marie, Mike Ripley learned that the bald eagles and lake trout in the St. Marys River were under siege from pesticides and invasive species. So he decided that when he grew up, he would do something about it.
With delisting as an Area of Concern expected in the next few years, the Manistique River has truly turned back into a jewel of the Upper Peninsula.
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