Jodi Rempala

Making a splash: New editor takes over at The Keel

Learn more about The Keel's new editor, Jodi Rempala. She shares her journey to Michigan's east coast and her plans to make St. Clair County home.

Port Huron has ambitious vision for the future of parks, trails, and rivers

We take a look at what the future might hold for the area's blueways and greenways, the connections between the two, and what local governments have in the works for improvements.

Illustration of a mastodon in Michigan.
Why does Michigan have a Thumb?

It wouldn't be much of a mitten without a thumb. But exactly how did our fair state's opposable digit come to fruition? Cranbrook Institute of Science's John Zawiskie gives us the geological history.

Matt Brooks.
Matt Brooks: A healthy dose of forward thinking for the Blue Water area

Entrepreneur Matt Brooks has several businesses and still manages to find time to help build others' enterprises.

Bird Creek Tap Room won the Catapult to Craft competition for Huron County.
Craft food and beverage competition boosts Thumb businesses

The Catapult Your Craft competition is awarding $30,000 to area food and beverage businesses to grow their companies.

ALD Thermal Treatment equipment
ALD Thermal Treatment expansion underway

A Port Huron manufacturer has a bright future with recent contracts signed to support a major expansion.

Chef Thomas Recinella at work.
Culinary institute brings more to the table than cooking classes

The Culinary Institute of MIchigan's campus in Port Huron is growing, and it's making sure to do so by intertwining itself into the fabric of Port Huron life, with local partnerships and a willingness to think creatively.

Stained glass art by Cecil Williams at Studio 1219.
The art of holiday shopping in Port Huron

Keep your gift giving local, original, and creative this year by buying directly from one of the 150+ local artists at Studio 1219, or taking your shopping up a creative notch at local small businesses.

Green Barn Winery is known for wine slushies.
Thumbs Up Wine Trail brings area wineries together

Writer Mickey Lyons explored part of the Thumbs Up Wine Trail around Port Huron for the Keel and reported back.

Technology turns farming into a high precision business that protects environment, controls costs

Technology adds a level of precision to farming that has not been seen before. 

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