by Teri Rowe
Miss Michigan, Melissa Beyrand formerly Miss Oakland County, visited the Upper Peninsula this week. On Wednesday June 29, she stopped for lunch in Baraga at The Drive In. She visited with owners, Rob and Beth Reynolds, as well as with the wait staff. Beyrand, 22 and of Milford MI, is originally from the Grand Rapids area downstate. She was crowned Miss Michigan on June 18, 2022, during the scholarship competition at Orchard View High School in Muskegon. “This is an opportunity to promote my social impact initiative in a way I’ve never had the platform to do before,” she said after winning her Miss Michigan title. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by Teri Rowe
The rain held off for visitors and vendors at the third Annual Alberta Fest Saturday, June 25. Local artists from around the area set up their booths along the sidewalk leading to the old school, and offered  everything from baked goods, tie-dyed clothing, musical instruments, jewelry, and cedar laser cut ornaments. Among the many venders and booths was Jim Leppala of ‘Jim-N-E’s Woodcrafts. He brought split maple baskets for sale. He even pulled out a template and showed a
customer just how he made it. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by John Raffel
Dawn M. Howe is the juvenile caseworker for Baraga County probate and family court and has a heavy agenda. “As the Juvenile Probate caseworker, I do probation work for juveniles involved in delinquency cases in our court as well as other prevention/intervention  programs in the community,” she said. “I’m wrapping up my first year in this position and
have some new and interesting programs I’d like people to know about. I am currently collaborating with local schools and truancy professionals from the ISD on a Truancy Prevention Program. “The probate register and I are also wrapping up our first session of a program we started called Girls on the Move. This is something we decided to pilot  independently, but will become an official Family Court program in the near future.” To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by Melissa Newland
Each year, Michigan Technological University’s (MTU) Parade of Nations Committee invites students from middle and high schools of surrounding districts to design and submit logos appropriate to the theme for the event. “The World is One” is this year’s theme and those entering were tasked with making an original logo to go with it on a plain white background, using solid colors (but no more than 5 colors) and with no shading. The Parade of Nations logo contest deadline was May 15 and many students throughout the area participated including Chiara Rapacci, a 17-year-old junior exchange student from
Italy at Baraga High School, who was the winner of this year’s logo contest. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by Melissa Newland
Memorial Day services were held at local cemeteries throughout Baraga County this past weekend to commemorate “all departed warriors, men and women, who so proudly served their country, valiantly defending the principles of justice, freedom and democracy in all of our country’s conflicts and wars.” Cemetery Military Honors for Herman, Pequaming, Aura and Skanee were all done Sunday, May 29, 2022 starting at 10 a.m. in Herman, 10:45 in Pequaming, 11:15 in Aura and at 12:15 a.m. in Skanee by the Foucault Funke Post 444 Baraga American Legion. Many community members were out and about paying tribute to those fallen and hearing the history of what Memorial Day means and its origins by Joseph O’Leary. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by Melissa Newland

The joint was hopping as “A World of Music” was celebrated at L’Anse Area School (LAS) during the CJ Sullivan student Spring Concert last week. The event was held Friday, May 20, 2022 at 1:45 p.m. with Band Director Aaron Poniatowski leading the well-dressed and wellbehaved students. A number of pieces were sung by the K-5 grade groups, with the performance starting with, “Listen to the Children,” by Teresa Jennings with all CJ
Sullivan Elementary students participating. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by John Raffel
The Baraga County pig farmer who won a nineyear fight with the DNR has filed a lawsuit against the department. Roger Turunen’s attorney Joseph O’Leary noted it was a nine-year fight when the DNR tried to declare his pigs an invasive species. As of Thursday, May 5,
Turunen, O’Leary said, was suing in the Michigan Court of Claims for damages “for  everything they put him through in nine years.” To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.

by John Raffel
The sawmill at the Ford Center in Alberta has been a longtime historic site. But there are tentative plans for it to be torn down sometime next year. That’s the word from Mark  Rudnicki, Director of the Ford Center, with his office on the Michigan Tech Houghton campus. “The sawmill is just a building up by the highway,” Rudnicki said. “There’s a lot that goes on in Alberta that is hidden away like a lot of the undergraduate education and
research that goes on. We own about 3,200 acres around the spot. To read more, subscribe to the L’Anse Sentinel online, or buy a print copy at our local retailers.