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The 19th annual Nor-east’r Music & Art Festival will be held at the Oscoda County Fairgrounds in Mio June 9-11. The gates will open to the public at 9 a.m. on Friday morning. Opening ceremonies start at 5:15 p.m. Over 25 artisans and food vendors will be ready to greet you and share their creations. This three-day weekend is packed with 38 artists on three different stages to satisfy your musical pleasures.

Fairview Eagle’s Nest Preschool closed out the school year with commencement exercises on May 25 for the second-year students graduating to kindergarten. The first-year students who are returning next year received certificates of completion.

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Communications representative, Forest Resources Division Michigan Department of Natural Resources The tiny, gray-and-yellow bird known as the Kirtland’s warbler is a lot of things. First, it’s extremely rare, with only a few thousand of the birds alive anywhere – 95 percent of them in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.

Fairview Area Schools offers an applied building tech class to it high school students. Principal Troy Ross started the class five or six years ago. His educational background is math and science; he’s not a licensed or certified industrial education teacher.

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989-387-8929 There is a new place to honor veterans this Memorial Day. Work has begun on the Oscoda County Veterans Memorial Park at 205 E.

Lydia’s Gate, a shelter in Mio, held its fundraiser auction in April and recently announced the results. “We have a total, finally,” director Carla Ott said.