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Boat Found By Houghton County Sheriff's Department

Looking for your boat? The Houghton County Sheriff’s Department has recovered a small 12-foot older model aluminum boat. It was found on the shores of Agate Beach in Stanton Township on Friday. It has a Minnesota registration on it and is dented all over with two small cracks in the …

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Makinen Will Continue To Serve As Special Prosecutor

The counties of Houghton and Keweenaw will continue to share the same prosecuting attorney for the time being. That’s according to Attorney General Bill Schuette–who appointed Houghton County Prosecutor Michael Makinen as Special Prosecutor in March of this year after the license to practice law of then Keweenaw County Prosecutor …

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Family Stories Sought For Michigan Tech Archives

The Michigan Tech Archives are on a mission to put history in the hands of those who lived it. They’re doing this by collecting oral histories from copper mining families. The Archives are a collection of records, photographs and documents of Michigan Tech and the surrounding Copper Country area. It’s …

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