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Fourth and fifth grade Kincheloe Elementary School volunteers approached 400 items Wednesday collected in a red sled during their first schoolwide food drive Dec.

Kincheloe Elementary School's second-year Reading Recovery program, spread to the other three district grade schools with Dowagiac's federal Title I stimulus dollars, is "hands down, the most powerful thing I've ever seen our staff do" in 24 years with the Union School District, Principal Dawn Conner apprised the Board of Education Monday night.

Kincheloe third grader Jonathan Stockwell, Patrick Hamilton fourth grader Faith Huling, Dowagiac Middle School eighth grader Robert Owen, Sister Lakes kindergartner Pedro Brito, Union High senior Emily Means and Justus Gage fourth grader McKenzie Cross were honored as October Citizens of the Month Monday night at Kincheloe Elementary School.

The public can step to the curb to support a Northern Michigan soldier killed in Afghanistan.

Members of the U.S. armed forces with known Michigan ties who died in 2009 supporting military operations in Afghanistan: - Army Cpl.

A community honors a fallen soldier and his courageous service to America. Army Sergeant Christopher Griffin of Kincheloe in Chippewa County died in a gun battle on October 3rd defending a remote outpost near the Pakistan border.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:24 a.m. 7:25am - October 14, 2009 - Newsroom I t was the deadliest assault on American forces in more than a year in Afghanistan.

The soldier for an Upper Peninsula soldier killed in Afghanistan will take place this afternoon.

Hide Video Funeral arrangements are set for an Upper Peninsula soldier killed in Afghanistan.

Another Northern Michigan manufacturer has announced it will close its doors. Metavation LLC is an auto parts manufacturer in Traverse City.

The bodies of four men killed in Afghanistan are back on American soil. They include Army Specialist Christopher Griffin from Kincheloe in the U.P. He died in an intense Taliban ambush over the weekend.

The Pentagon says a soldier from Michigan's Upper Peninsula was 1 of 8 U.S. soldiers killed in a battle in Afghanistan.

The body of an Eastern Upper Peninsula soldier killed in Afghanistan last weekend is expected to arrive in the United States sometime today.

A soldier from the Upper Peninsula was one of eightA soldiers killed over the weekend in Afghanistan.

Hide Video The U.S. Military says a Northern Michigan soldier died. They say Army Specialist Christopher T. Griffin from Kincheloe was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom.

A Spring Lake man has been honored by an organization of inmates at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe in the Upper Peninsula.

An inmate demonstration at an Upper Peninsula prison over the weekend is evidence that budget cuts have made correctional facilities more dangerous, guards warned Monday.

Officials at Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe say they're investigating Saturday night's disturbance at the facility to determine who started the protest.

A corrections official says 75 to 100 inmates at an Upper Peninsula prison demonstrated during a weekend protest that ended without violence.