The CLK School District thanked Mike Lasanen of LP’s Seamless Gutters for his donation of gutters and labor for the Horizon’s Pavilion Project. This from their monthly board meeting last night. They also thanked Campioni True Value and the True Value Foundation for their donation of health & safety kits …

You can now check out a Chromebook for two weeks. This in a press release from the Portage Lake District Library. In order to check a Chromebook out, you must be a library card holder in good standing. Chromebooks come with a carrying case and charger. Library Director Dillon Geshel. …

The Houghton County Ice Arena hopes to be ready by September 28th. This from the Houghton County Board of Commissioners meeting last night. The board also hopes to begin upgrading the WiFi at the marina this Fall. If they can’t this Fall, it will be a priority in the Spring. …

Tonight at 6pm, MDOT will begin paving US 41 in Hancock. The work will go from 6p-6a and is expected to wrap by the end of the week. 

Michigan hopes to reintroduce the grayling back into its waters. The fish, which has been gone for close to 150 years, is a native species, which was wiped out by the logging industry, which destroyed spawning grounds. Unchecked fishing, also decimated populations. Ed Eisch, fish production program manager for the …

Keweenaw Legion Riders Director Caleb Thompson and his friend Terry Perault went for a ride out to White Pine, and had a chance encounter. They ran into John Devitt, founder of the Moving Wall, a mobile replica  of the Viet Nam Combat Tribute Wall in Washington, DC.  Devitt, originally from …

Governor Whitmer has made appointments to Michigan’s Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Michigan’s Autism Council, with U.P. Residents. Darryl Brown of St. Ignace and Nheena Weyer Ittner of Marquette, were appointed to three year terms to Michigan’s Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, which will expire on September …

This past Friday, Detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team arrested a 56-year old Menominee man, for charges related to manufacturing meth. UPSET detectives were tipped off the man was making meth at his residence located on 10th Street, in Menominee. A search warrant was obtained, and police found …

On Sunday, Houghton County Sheriff Deputies were called to investigate a vehicle fire near Centennial Heights, in Calumet Township. The vehicle’s occupants were gone, when deputies and the property owner arrived. The vehicle in question is possibly a 97-03 Ford F-150. If you have any information, you’re asked to contact …

Houghton County has a sharp increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases. This from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. As of today, Houghton County has 48 more positive cases, bringing their total to 137. They also have 11 new probable cases, which are treated as positives and one recovery. Gogebic County …