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The Bridgefest committee is looking for volunteers to help out with this year’s event. The community celebration takes place June 14th through the 17th.  Volunteers are needed for set-up on Friday afternoon from noon to 3pm. Help is also needed with security, checking IDs, selling drink tickets, and serving drinks.  …

A number of Michigan Tech alumni and faculty are part of the disaster response to the Kīlauea volcano eruption in Hawaii. The volcanologists, geologists, geochemists and other scientists who have been called to Hawaii’s Big Island are there to aid the state’s emergency response team. They are also there to …

A special meeting of the Houghton County Board of Commissioners will be held Friday at noon to discuss the residency status of Commissioner Scott Ala. Ala confirmed he has been in Florida and has a Florida driver’s license at another special meeting two weeks ago. The board voted to send …

As election season approaches, communities across the country discuss current political events more frequently than other times of year. While candidates stay busy on the campaign trail, voters attend rallies and debates, and Upper Peninsula residents will have a rare opportunity to attend one this weekend in Escanaba that was …

HANCOCK, Mich. — Finland’s “spice girls” are bringing added flavor to the Copper Country this summer. The Finnish folk band Jepokryddona (“Spice of Jeppo”) will headline the area’s Juhannus celebration, performing the upbeat, lively tunes that represent the heritage of their part of Finland, and offer workshops in their region’s …

A program that brings Michigan kids and their teachers more active ways to apply science and engineering to solve real-life problems has grown from 1,700 middle-school students in 2015 to 45,000 in 2018. Mi-STAR, which stands for Michigan Science Teaching and Assessment Reform, was spearheaded by faculty and staff at …

LANSING, Mich.—The Historical Society of Michigan announces the winners of its 2018 Upper Peninsula History Awards, which will be presented during its 69th annual Upper Peninsula History Conference in St. Ignace, Michigan, June 22-24, 2018. Each year, the Historical Society of Michigan presents two awards at the Upper Peninsula History Conference: the Charles …

Are you running your operation in a cold, old building?  Or, are you concerned about your high heating and electric costs? The Keweenaw Community Foundation (KCF), partnering with the Houghton Energy Efficiency Team (HEET), has been awarded a grant from the Mott Foundation that brings support to Houghton and Keweenaw …

Fourteen Wells Fargo banks in the Upper Peninsula will be rebranded as Flagstar Banks. Troy, MI-based Flagstar Bank is acquiring 52 Wells Fargo Bank branch locations, its almost 500 employees and its customers in Indiana (33 branches), the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (14 branches), Wisconsin (4 branches) and Ohio (1 …

An effort is underway to officially dissolve the Village of Calumet. Calumet resident Nathan Anderson says a 17 page petition has been submitted, requesting the issue be put on the ballot. Anderson claims there is overwhelming support for Calumet’s dissolution, citing the failure of the village council to follow the …