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MTEC SmartZone Names the Six Companies in the Inaugural AMMP Accelerator Program

MTEC SmartZone announces the six companies participating in the inaugural cohort of the AMMP Accelerator program. The Advanced Material and Manufacturing Program supports the early-stage development of companies focused on either advanced materials or manufacturing sectors. The programs foster innovation, and job creation, and position the Keweenaw as a leading …

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MDOT Opens Access to $3.5 Million in Grants to Support Mobility in Cities

Mobility and Electrification, MDOT will look to support quick build projects led by cities and transit authorities to improve user safety, and mobility and support place-making efforts. The program will seek to make communities more walk-able, bike-able, and transit more micro-mobility-friendly. To help city leaders understand how the program can …

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Dark Sky Festival Returns Tomorrow to the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge for Three Days

An old saying in Michigan says if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes. The factors that create each day’s weather patterns are influenced by interactions between the oceans, Earth’s diverse landscapes, solar radiation, and motion in space. Starting tomorrow the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge will host the annual Dark …

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Four Upper Peninsula Communities Receive FDCVT Grants from the State of Michigan for Infrastructure Improvements

Four western Upper Peninsula communities will receive a portion of 2.8 million dollars in state infrastructure grants for Financially Distressed Cities Villages and Townships. Yesterday the treasurer’s office announced that it has awarded 2.8 million dollars to 13 communities throughout the state to support projects services and strategies for public …

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Copper Shores is Working to Finalize Plans for a Sexual Assault Hotline in the Copper Country

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation plans to launch the Copper Shores Sexual Assault Hotline later this spring. The launch of the Sexual Assault Hotline will overlap with the end of the general crisis hotline, which the foundation took over from Dial Help after three local non-profit organizations merged to become …

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Baraga County Property Values Increase – County Board Meeting Wrap

Property values have risen in Baraga County.  At last night’s Board of Commissioners meeting, Equalization Director Pat Osterman reported that real property values in this year’s Equalization Report came in at $438,288,352. That’s nearly $60 million higher than last year, although Osterman noted that some of the increase is because …

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Michigan Tech Computer Science Professor Earns a Distinguished Professor of the Year Award from the MASU

A Michigan Tech professor earns recognition from the state of Michigan as a distinguished professor of the year. The Michigan Association of State Universities recently announced the 2024 Distinguished Professor of the Year award recipients including, Charles Wallace, an Associate professor of Computer Science and Dean of Curriculum and Instruction …

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Visit Keweenaw Announces Winners of the First Spring Photo Contest

Spring in the Copper Country can be a beautiful place for those willing to explore past the salted roads. Visit Keweenaw recently wrapped up its spring photo contest for the first time. The contest encouraged residents to get out early in the season and capture the region’s transition from winter …

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Houghton County Added to the SBA’s Drought Impacted Areas

The State of Michigan urges congressional leaders, SBA, and FEMA to create new paths for federal relief for communities impacted by the winter’s lack of snowfall. Last Thursday the Governor’s office announced it has urged leaders in Congress, the Small Business Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create …

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The Michigan Tech Theater Present Purple Hearts by C.S. Wallace

Below the deck of the USS West Virginia, three men were discovered during the recovery efforts at Pearl Harbor. Their story would go on to inspire CS Wallace to pen the stage work Purple Hearts, as a fictional recount of their lives stuck inside the airtight storeroom. Purple Hearts explores …

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