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Chassell’s annual Old-Fashioned Christmas Celebration gets underway today.  Over the next two days, the winners of the Chassell Township Decorating and Lighting Contest will be announced on the event’s Facebook page. Kids from the elementary school will decorate the community tree. On Friday, the elementary school Christmas program will begin …

Two Copper Country businesses are receiving state help to upgrade their technology. Calumet Electronics and L’Anse Manufacturing will each get $25,000 from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Industry 4.0 Technology Implementation Grant program. Each company will need to provide equal matching funds toward manufacturing technology upgrades. Calumet Electronics makes precision …

Finlandia University’s alumni turned out to support their alma mater this past Giving Tuesday. The university’s Giving Tuesday campaign helps the institution continue focusing on providing education to their students, many of whom receive some amount of financial aid. This year the school’s alumni added over 50,000 dollars to the …

The U.S. Department of Education supports Michigan Tech’s Ronald E. McNair Postbachelorette Achievement Program with a 1.3 million dollar grant. Michigan Tech’s McNair Scholars Program prepares undergraduate students from historically under represented demographics and first generation university students for doctoral studies, through research and scholarly activities. The grant from the …

The Hancock City Council will hold a special meeting tonight to interview candidates to fill an open seat. The vacancy was created when Michael Lancour declined to accept his election to the council in November. Lancour had suspended his campaign when he learned that he could not join the council …

Hancock will celebrate the 105th anniversary of Finnish independence tonight. Although Finnish culture dates back thousands of years, the region was dominated first by Sweden, and then by Russia, until independence was declared in 1917. By that time, a flood of Finns had already emigrated to the Keweenaw Peninsula, establishing …

A local ski resort has again found itself ranked among America’s favorites. Mount Bohemia finished third in the national voting for the USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards. It’s the fifth straight year the resort near Lac La Belle has placed in the top five. The 620-acre resort has earned a …

Coming up soon the Portage Health Foundation, will host the last of the 2022 Ontonagon Mobile Food pantries. On December 15th, at the Ontonagon Fire Hall, a semi truck of food from Feeding America will arrive for the noon mobile food pantry. Over the course of the year, the Portage …

The holiday hoopla might be this Thursday but silent auction bids are open. Last Friday the silent auction to support the PHF – KEDA CTE scholarship program officially opened for bids. Some big ticket items up for auction includes, Michigan Tech Huskies Hockey tickets, maple wood outdoor furniture, Upper Peninsula …

The Post Office in Baraga is now officially named after a groundbreaking Baraga County woman. Legislation designating the building as the “Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office” was signed into law by President Joe Biden last week. The bill was sponsored by Michigan U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow.  Cora …