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Portage Lake District Library Awarded Grant For Market Bucks Programming

February 22, 2017 Featured, Local News 212

HANCOCK, Mich., Feb. 21, 2017 – The Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) received $3,555 from the Portage Health Foundation (PHF) to offer an expanded Market Bucks program for 2017’s Summer Reading Program participants. PLDL applied for funding under PHF’s food initiative RFP late last year. The grant funding was a …

Sheriff Invokes Emergency Powers Act To Address Overcrowding At Houghton County Jail

February 22, 2017 Featured, Local News 1,089

The jail population in Houghton County must be reduced and the sheriff is taking steps to see that it happens. Sheriff Brian McLean has invoked the Jail Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act to address overcrowding at the Houghton County Jail. McLean advised county officials that the population has remained at or …

Hancock Man Sentenced On Drug Charge

February 22, 2017 Featured, Local News 760

A Hancock man will spend the next month in jail for a drug charge. 30-year-old Andrew Rohrer was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in the Houghton County Jail for possession of a controlled substance. Rohrer was allegedly attacked by 28-year-old Joseph Schreiber in June 2016 when the two met to …

Michigan Tech cuts the ribbon and welcomes students to the new H-STEM complex. Two years ago Michiga…

Late last week Michigan Technological University welcomed two new features to the college’s campus. …

Michigan Tech sent more than 1,000 students off into the world over the weekend. Graduation for the …

Hancock Police say the suspects of the break-in into Hirovonen Hall on Friday morning have turned t…

No one was injured in a single-vehicle accident on the Portage Lake Lift Bridge Saturday. In the mor…

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