Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. MLB Justin Upton’s home run in the second inning provided the only run of the game, as the Detroit Tigers shaded the Minnesota Twins 1-0. The blow was enough to give Matt Boyd his first win of the season. Boyd gave …
Read More »Calumet Prepares For First Ever Musical Festival In Agassiz Park
Tickets are on sale as preparations continue for the first ever Calumet Music Festival in Agassiz Park. The event will take place on August 6th and will include a full day of music, food and fun. Performers include the Wingnuts, Boodie Creek, Tom Katalin and headliner Hadden Sayers Band from …
Read More »CCISD Health Career Students Experience Empathy with Age Simulation Suits
Hancock, Michigan—Last fall, the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) of the Keweenaw Community Foundation (KCF) announced that $600 had been awarded to the Copper Country Intermediate School District’s (CCISD) Health Careers Program. The YAC grant provided the opportunity for the CCISD program to create empathy suits and age related experiences inspired …
Read More »Snyder To View Gogebic County’s Storm Damage
Governor Rick Snyder will be in the Upper Peninsula Monday to get a first hand look at the damage caused by last week’s storms in Gogebic County. On Friday, Snyder issued a Declaration of Disaster which made available all state resources to assist local emergency response efforts, including the immediate need …
Read More »Should Chassell Remain Part Of Portage Lake District Library?
The Portage Lake District Library serves the City of Houghton as well as the communities of Portage Township and Chassell Township. However, some Chassell residents want that association to end, along with the roughly two mills taxpayers pay on average to support the library. A ballot initiative to withdraw the …
Read More »Tigers Claim Walk-Off Win – Monday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. MLB Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Detroit Tigers to a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals yesterday afternoon. KC scored single runs in the second and third innings against Tigers’ starter Michael …
Read More »Anticipated Trump V.P. Choice Good News To Some State Republicans
News Thursday of Indiana Governor Mike Pence becoming Donald Trump’s running mate is sitting well with state Senator Joe Hune of Livingston County. Hune says a GOP ticket involving Pence would help cater to the independent voter, while erasing concerns of the party’s establishment.
Read More »Democrats Blast New DEQ Director
Governor Rick Snyder has appointed a new Department of Environmental Quality Director, and Democrats are wasting little time blasting the decision because the new director worked for a major oil company. Here’s Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick.
Read More »Tough Task To Rebuild Trust In Flint
The governor’s point man in Flint on the water crisis there is telling Lansing bureau chief Tim Skubick things are returning to normal but there is a long way to go on building trust with the community again.
Read More »Phony IRS Calls Continue To Claim Victims
The Internal Revenue Service continues to hear from taxpayers who’ve received unsolicited calls from con artists claiming to be from the IRS. Jon Hewett reports.
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