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Michigan’s Department of Treasury is reminding taxpayers and tax professionals that the use of digital signatures is allowed in ongoing efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Using digital signatures allows both groups to work remotely and file forms in a timely manner. State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks said “ Permitting …

Michigan Works Offices are kicking off an awareness campaign, aimed at filling over 1,000 jobs across the Upper Peninsula, and they’re looking for people like you to help them out. There are currently 524 open positions in Houghton County, ranging from Hospitality to Manufacturing and everything in between. A link …

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy a $1.9 Million grant, so schools and child care facilities throughout the state, can test for lead in their drinking water. EGLE Division Director Eric Oswald said “This award is due to the hard work EGLE’s …

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Baraga County’s Communities That Care and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community are offering free QPR training, to help you recognize signs someone may be in trouble. QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer, and is a proven method to help people thinking about suicide. …

The CLK School District thanked Mike Lasanen of LP’s Seamless Gutters for his donation of gutters and labor for the Horizon’s Pavilion Project. This from their monthly board meeting last night. They also thanked Campioni True Value and the True Value Foundation for their donation of health & safety kits …

You can now check out a Chromebook for two weeks. This in a press release from the Portage Lake District Library. In order to check a Chromebook out, you must be a library card holder in good standing. Chromebooks come with a carrying case and charger. Library Director Dillon Geshel. …

The Houghton County Ice Arena hopes to be ready by September 28th. This from the Houghton County Board of Commissioners meeting last night. The board also hopes to begin upgrading the WiFi at the marina this Fall. If they can’t this Fall, it will be a priority in the Spring. …

Tonight at 6pm, MDOT will begin paving US 41 in Hancock. The work will go from 6p-6a and is expected to wrap by the end of the week. 

Michigan hopes to reintroduce the grayling back into its waters. The fish, which has been gone for close to 150 years, is a native species, which was wiped out by the logging industry, which destroyed spawning grounds. Unchecked fishing, also decimated populations. Ed Eisch, fish production program manager for the …

Keweenaw Legion Riders Director Caleb Thompson and his friend Terry Perault went for a ride out to White Pine, and had a chance encounter. They ran into John Devitt, founder of the Moving Wall, a mobile replica  of the Viet Nam Combat Tribute Wall in Washington, DC.  Devitt, originally from …