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Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM

Importance of local news

December invites reflection. The days shorten and the rhythm of life in our peninsula slows just enough for us to look back at the stories that shaped our year. They weren’t always loud stories, and they weren’t going viral across social media, but they were ours, and they told the story of us as a community.

In local journalism, the narrative is built one meeting, one interview, and one picture at a time.

A zoning hearing in Empire, a fishing update out of Leland, a school team in Suttons Bay winning a game, a festival in Northport - these are the kind of story threads that are woven together to tell the story of the place we all call home.

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