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Table of Contents

No. 263
September 2009

Our Cover by Kathleen Conover
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Feature
Busy Bees Greg Peterson
Teens help with sweet nature project

Departments

City Notes Edited by Kristy Basolo
Highlights of important happenings in the area

Food & Other Important Things Don Curto
About time, tomatoes and watermelon

Back Then Larry Chabot
Governor, don't eat the lima beans

Lookout Point Eric Hammerstrom
21st Century city in the making

In the Outdoors Kim Hoyum
Speed skaters to compete in Marquette for Olympic spots

More Lookout Point Rob Cope
The Greatest American Road - Peninsula to Peninsula

Health Matters Jill Fries
H1N1 - the next great pandemic?

More In the Outdoors Lon and Lynn Emerick
Notes from the North Country

Arts & Humanities Kathy LeDuc
Players de Noc announce forty-fifth season line-up

More Arts & Humanities Tyler Tichelaar
Tales of logging, murder and change

More Arts & Humanities Karen Johnson
Annual Sibelius festival adopts a jazzy outlook

South County Connection
News and notes about the K.I. Sawyer/Gwinn area

More Arts & Humanities Ricci Ittner
Performing Arts Series announces new season

8-18 Media
Young filmmakers inspired by Michigan film festival

Home Cinema Leonard G. Heldreth
The Great Buck Howard, Coraline, Watchman

Out & About This Month Carrie Usher
   Calendar      Club Guide      Art and Museum Guide



This month's Brad Veley cartoon

 



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