On average, 20 Veterans complete suicide every day. That is 7,300 Veteran deaths a year due to suicide, which is more than double the 2,996 deaths on September 11, 2001.   Mental Health Care through Veterans Affairs has now been expanded to other than honorably discharged veterans. The move is part …

Flood insurance could be available to residents through a federal program that would help protect them if another disaster strikes. The National Flood Insurance Program is offered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  Communities agree to put into place practices to minimize flood impacts and FEMA makes subsidized flood insurance …

A potentially troublesome situation has been averted in the Village of Calumet now that replacement parts were found for their snow removal equipment. The Daily Mining Gazette reported last week that the village’s snow-go had broken down, which put Calumet in a bind.  Without a snow-go to help take the …

HANCOCK Leonard Alfred Holmbo, 100, a resident of Hancock, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, January 20, 2019. He was born November 16, 1918, in Franklin Township, a son to the late August and Maria (Oaulsen) Holombo. Leonard was a WWII veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corp. Prior …

Join us for the next 2019 Green Film: Mother Caring for 7 Billion (2017)                                    Date &Time: 7:00-8:30 pm, Wed., Feb. 20th  (NOTE: all films in 2019 on Wednesdays!)    Enjoy coffee, refreshments and facilitated discussion. Cost:  FREE, $5 suggested donation Location: G002 Hesterberg Hall, Michigan Tech Forestry Bldg. Description:Examines the challenges we face in a world …

The floods that devastated the Copper Country last summer caused million of dollars worth of damage—but what would it cost to keep an event like that from happening again? The Carnegie Museum’s Father’s Day Flood series will present Dr. Melanie Kueber Watkins tonight at 7pm.  She will speak on “Being …

Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly may be best known for serving their free holiday dinners to area seniors who would otherwise be alone on the holiday, but they also provide services to their elderly friends throughout the year.  They help provide medical transportation and firewood to heat people’s homes, …

More than 100 Finlandia students used a day off of school to make a difference in their community as they spent the day performing various volunteer duties throughout the Copper Country. Now in its fourth year, the University refers to “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day- a day of service” as …

Edward Dennis Devoy Sheridan, named after his great grandfather, Edward Devoy, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on June 14, 1940. He and his older brother, Philip III, were raised in Ferguson, MO by his parents, Alice H. and Philip Sheridan. He went to the Ferguson-Florissant Public Schools and was …

Frances T Brunet, age 91 of L’Anse, MI passed away on Friday, January 18, 2019 at Baraga County Memorial Hospital. She was born November 7, 1927 in Pequaming, MI daughter of Raymond and Ruth (Perry) VanAbel. Frannie graduated from L’Anse High School. She married Raymond Pierre Brunet. Frannie worked as …