A donation of equipment to Michigan Tech’s School of Business and Economics will create more opportunities for students. Iron Mountain based CCI Systems donated over 50 pieces of equipment to support the new Information Systems Student Lab of the Management Information Systems program. Assistant Professor Jeffrey Wall says the computers, …
Read More »Person Pulled From Water After Going Over Side Of Bridge
The Houghton Police Department says they responded to a call around 1:40pm Friday afternoon that a person had gone over the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. Officers arrived on scene and found a person in the water near the bridge. Houghton Police officers as well as officers from Michigan Tech Public …
Read More »DNR Announces More Funding To Implement Master Plan At McLain State Park
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials said a recent $1.25 million capital outlay allocation has helped boost to nearly $3 million the total amount of funding available to design and construct master plan concepts at F.J. McLain State Park. Work was initially planned to begin this spring, but has been …
Read More »Convoy From Western U.P. To Bring Supplies For Wildfire Victims
An effort is underway to help victims of devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. Some two million acres of land have been burned resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of cattle and other livestock and the lives of six people who died trying to save them, …
Read More »Wings Edge Wild – Monday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. Gibson Cup Alex Roy’s goal in the second overtime period gave the Portage Lake Pioneers a 5-4 victory over the Calumet Wolverines Saturday night, and set up a deciding third game in the Gibson Cup series. The finale will be played tomorrow …
Read More »Roy’s OT Goal Extends Gibson Cup Series – Sunday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. Gibson Cup Alex Roy’s goal in the second overtime period gave the Portage Lake Pioneers a 5-4 victory over the Calumet Wolverines Saturday night, and set up a deciding third game in the series on Tuesday. Coming off a 3-2 victory on …
Read More »Tech Hockey Falls in NCAA Opener
Denver University scored four goals in the first period, and eliminated Michigan Tech 5-2 in the first round of the NCAA Division One Men’s Hockey Tournament today. The Pioneers got off to a quick start when Colin Staub scored at 4:42 of the opening period. Staub’s second goal eight minutes …
Read More »Wolverines Win Gibson Opener – Saturday Sports Wrap
Click on the bold scores for more details. Gibson Cup Tyler Loukas scored twice in the second period to lead the Calumet Wolverines to a 3-2 victory over the Portage Lake Pioneers in the opening game of the 2017 Gibson Cup series. Portage Lake could not take advantage of home …
Read More »Dianda Nominated to CSG Midwest-Canada Relations Committee
LANSING — State Rep. Scott Dianda (D-Calumet) said today that he thanks House Speaker Tom Leonard for nominating him to serve on the Council of State Governments Midwest’s MLC Midwest-Canada Relations Committee for the 2017-2018 term. CSG Midwest is made of the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, …
Read More »Tech Environmental Engineering Team Wins Cleaning Water Competition
By Mark Wilcox, News Writer, Michigan Technological University The winners of the Cleaning Dirty Water Competition at Michigan Technological University shouldn’t come as a surprise. The winners are three members of the Tech chapter of the Society of Environmental Engineering — seniors no less — Joseph Doyle, Kyle Mischler and Jeremy …
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