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Roundup: Ubly, Bad Axe girls earn wins FacebookTwitterEmail GIRLS BASKETBALL Ubly 48, Memphis 16 MEMPHIS — The Ubly girls basketball team picked up its fifth straight win on Monday night, overpowering host Memphis, 48-16. The Bearcats are now 5-2 overall and 5-1 in conference play. Ubly head coach Joel Leipprandt attributed his team’s improved play to changes the Bearcats have made since the start of the season. “The girls are adjusting to their new roles and our overall energy has been i...

MDOT imposes season restrictions on state roads Meant to protect state trunklines from frost damage FacebookTwitterEmail The intersection of M-53 and M-142 north of Bad Axe, where two state roads in Huron County meet. MDOT recently imposed seasonal weight restrictions on state trunklines like these to protect them from frost damage. (Robert Creenan/Huron Daily Tribune) As of 6 a.m. March 1, the Michigan Department of Transportation imposed weight restrictions that will be enforced on all state ...

What could Joe Biden’s economic plans mean for Michiganders? Updated Feb 27, 2021; Posted Feb 27, 2021 President Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccine after touring Pfizer global supply plant in Portage, Michigan on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. (Malachi Barrett) Joel Bissell | MLive.comJoel Bissell | MLive.com Facebook Share Joe Biden’s presidential campaign proposed a host of economic initiatives, and now that he’s in office, Michiganders are watching to see which pieces may have been ...

FBI raids neo-Nazi camp in Michigan as national connections of Whitmer plotters emerge On Thursday, with five days remaining before the US election, the FBI conducted two additional raids in Michigan and arrested Justen Watkins and Alfred Gorman, leaders of a neo-Nazi group called The Base. Watkins was arrested when agents raided a farm in the town of Bad Axe, in the Michigan “thumb,” which members of The Base used as a training grounds and “hate camp.” Gorman was arrested in the Detroi...

Scheurer nurse practitioner proud to serve her native community Paige Withey, paige.withey@hearstnp.com FacebookTwitterEmail After growing up in the Thumb, Jennifer Jones is proud to serve her native community through her role as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Scheurer Primary Care in Bad Axe. (Courtesy Photo) After helping to care for her grandfather who was diagnosed with cancer when she was a teenager, people began to encourage Jennifer Jones to become a nurse. Now, years later, she is cari...

Bad Axe boys pick up road win at USA FacebookTwitterEmail The Bad Axe boys basketball team used a 22-point first quarter to jump out in front of host Unionville-Sebewaing on its way to a 65-26 win Thursday night.Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily Tribune SEBEWAING – The Bad Axe boys basketball team used a 22-point first quarter to jump out in front of host Unionville-Sebewaing on its way to a 65-26 win Thursday night. The Hatchets improved to 5-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play. The Patriots are n...

Bad Axe girls hand USA first loss of season FacebookTwitterEmail SEBEWAING – The Bad Axe girls basketball team did something on Wednesday night that no other team had been able to accomplish in six previous tries this season: defeat the Unionville-Sebewaing Patriots. The Hatchets prevailed in what proved to be a defensive battle, holding off the Patriots in the final few minutes of the game for a 36-30 road victory. The Hatchets are now 5-1 on the season overall and 4-1 in conference play. Th...

Kelly Durr works to improve students who fall behind FacebookTwitterEmail Kelly Durr, a math, science, and physical education teacher for Ascent High School in Bad Axe. (Robert Creenan/Huron Daily Tribune) Kelly Durr might look imposing, but if you ask his students at the Ascent High School in Bad Axe, he might be one of the most fun and understanding teacher you will come across. Durr has been a teacher with Ascent High School for the past 10 years, teaching subjects like algebra 1 and 2, geom...

Bad Axe students take full advantage of opportunities to explore future careers Paige Withey, paige.withey@hearstnp.com FacebookTwitterEmail Tribune File Photo As the year progresses and Career and Technical Education Month comes to an end, students across the Upper Thumb are focusing on their post-secondary education plans as the end of the school year and graduation creep closer. Students at Bad Axe High School not only have opportunities available to them through the Huron Area Technical Ce...

Neo-Nazis reportedly planned fortified, white nationalist compound in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula News outlet obtains secret chats from former The Base leader planning to establish extremist community in Michigan Tags:  A screenshot of a picture uploaded to social media by former The Base leader Justen Watkins in an effort to threaten a podcast host. The photo of Watkins was taken in front of a familys home in Dexter Township in 2019, where Watkins falsely believed the "I Dont Speak German" p...