Click on the bold scores for more details. High School In high school baseball yesterday… – Calumet swept a doubleheader from Jeffers, 4-3 and 18-5. The Jets scored three times in the second inning of the first game to take an early lead. The Copper Kings came back, and Robert …
Read More »Copper TRACES at Keweenaw National Historical Park
(Calumet, MI) Keweenaw National Historical Park celebrated Every Kid in a Park with nearly 600 fourth grade students visiting the park this week! Each day, students came to Calumet and attended the Copper TRACES which stands for Technology, Research, Art and Music, Community, Environment, and Service. Station leaders taught students …
Read More »Two Staff Members At Western U.P. Health Department Awarded
Two staff members at the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department were recently honored at the Michigan Environmental Health Association’s annual education conference. Lynne Madison, RS, Director of Environmental Health at the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, received the LaRue L. Miller Life Achievement Award. In receiving the award, Madison was recognized …
Read More »UPSTART is Bringing Solar to L’Anse Through $10,000 U.S. Energy Dept Award
May 19, 2017, L’Anse, MI – The Upper Peninsula Solar Technical Assistance Team (UPSTART) has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative’s Solar in Your Community Challenge. Over the next 18 months, UPSTART will design a community solar program to enable residents and businesses in …
Read More »Quincy Smelter Named A Historic Landmark
A historic site in the Copper Country is getting recognized for its significance in the history of metallurgy. The Quincy Smelter Works was built in the late 1800’s and was a key component of the copper mining industry. During a time when copper from the Keweenaw was wiring the nation’s …
Read More »Tigers, Brewers Fall – Monday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. High School In high school baseball today… – Calumet plays at Jeffers. Pregame coverage begins around 3:45 on KBear 102.3 and KBear102.com. In softball today… – Houghton visits Lake Linden-Hubbell. – Hancock entertains L’Anse. – Jeffers plays at Baraga. – Calumet hosts …
Read More »Calumet Sweeps Baseball Twinbill with L’Anse – Sunday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. High School In high school baseball Saturday… – Calumet took two games from L’Anse. The Kings put up 11 runs and Russ Bjorn threw a complete game for the 11-8 victory in the opening contest. Colin Loukus went two-for-three at the plate, …
Read More »ATV Driver Killed in Marquette County – UPDATED
A teenage ATV driver was killed Saturday evening in a mishap in Sands Township, south of Marquette. State Police troopers from the Negaunee post were called out at 7:30 pm to a logging road known locally as the Honor Camp Trail. It stretches between M-553 and the end of Silver …
Read More »Tigers Fall, Brewers Win – Saturday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. High School At the Upper Peninsula track and field regionals Friday… – The Houghton boys took the team title, and the Gremlin girls finished second at Westwood. Full results were not provided. – At the Division Two meet at Ishpeming, the Hancock and …
Read More »Hardware Superstore To Open in Calumet
A huge building left vacant when its grocery store closed in 2014, will now be home to a new hardware store and more. Campioni’s True Value Hardware is scheduled to open to the public on Wednesday, May 24th. The 25,000 square foot building has hardware, camping supplies, fishing gear, yarn …
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