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Students feeding the community is something anyone can get behind. On March 30 the Ontonagon Schools Working Mobile Food Pantry will hand out food from Feeding America at the Ontonagon Fire Hall. The working mobile pantry is funded by the Portage health foundation and is a partnership between the organization …

Happy World Water Day! Yesterday students at Hancock Middle School learned just how precious water is in the world.  Claire Fidler, an MTU sustainability student, led the presentation, quizzing students on what place water can be found most. She said that she enjoys showing kids how water and sustainability come …

The state of Michigan is continuing its advisory that residents limit the amount of smelt from Lake Superior that they eat. The advisory was first posted a year ago, when testing by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources showed elevated levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate in rainbow smelt. Testing later last …

Country music star Russell Dickerson will headline the entertainment at this summer’s U.P. State Fair. The fair will be held in Escanaba August 15th through 21st. The grandstand entertainment schedule will include dirt racing on Monday, a laser light show on Tuesday, an ABBA tribute act on Wednesday, the classic …

All Michigan families who are eligible for food assistance benefits will receive additional money again this month to help deal with the escalating cost of groceries. Payments of at least $95 per family will be made as separate deposits into recipients’ Bridge Card accounts. The additional assistance will help approximately …

The preliminary examinations for two of the three Houghton County men recently charged with child sex crimes have been delayed. Yesterday, the hearing for 21-year-old Kahleb Thorsson Senia-Wicks of Calumet was pushed back to April 18th. 34-year-old Jeffrey David Redd of Laurium had his appearance moved back to April 4th. …

Houghton Portage Elementary School will have a fresh look when students return next fall. At last night’s meeting, board of education members approved a handful of maintenance and upgrade projects that will be addressed during the summer break. The list includes new carpeting in the elementary school hallways and some …

High School The boys high school basketball tournament continues with the state quarterfinals this evening. In Division Four, Ewen-Trout Creek will face Rudyard at Munising High School at 7:00. College Baseball The Finlandia University baseball team has introduced a new recruit. Trent White is an infielder from Middleburg, Florida. NBA …

Scenic Michigan, a coalition of Michiganders who want to see the state’s great landscapes protected, are concerned with how wind turbines in the Keweenaw may affect the area’s fall color and snowmobile tourism, and the protection of dark skies in the copper country. James Mehelcic, Secretary of the Guardians of …

Water is life, and a more than well known aspect of living around the great lakes. Tomorrow is the United Nations world water day. This year’s theme aims to celebrate an invisible and seldom thought of source of h2o. Ground water and its importance, is what many organization around the …