Approximately 150 soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard Headquarters 107th Engineer Battalion are preparing for an overseas deployment. The 107th is based in Ishpeming and Marquette. The unit is scheduled to spend up to a year in southwest Asia. They’ll be part of Operation Spartan Shield, with a …
Read More »Hancock Girls, Jeffers Boys Hoops Remain Unbeaten – Friday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school boys basketball last night… • Houghton fell to Negaunee 50-47. • Jeffers smothered Bessemer 67-21. The Jets improve to 5-0 on the season. • Dollar Bay-Tamarack City got past Ewen-Trout Creek 50-43. • Chassell lost to Ironwood 53-43. • The Calumet …
Read More »Sigma Pi – Zeta Epsilon Chapter Donates Nearly 2,000 Dollars to Dial Help and Pigs – N – Heat
A Michigan Tech fraternity donated nearly 2,000 dollars to Dial Help, from a recent philanthropy event. Yesterday the crisis hotline provider announced they received 1,916 dollars from the Sigma Pi Fraternity – Zeta Epsilon chapter. Sigma Pi explained that they wanted to help support Dial Help due to the growing …
Read More »Isiah Strieter Sentenced to 10 to 15 Years in Prison for Ashley Harvey Murder
One year later Isiah Strieter has been sentenced for his mother’s murder. Judge Charles Goodman presided over the courtroom in Houghton County 12th Circuit Court this morning. Strieter has been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for the murder of, Ashley Harvey, in January 2022. He is convicted …
Read More »Hancock Will Continue Zooming Meetings, and Rebuild Fire Truck – City Council Report
Non-union employees of the City of Hancock will receive a four percent raise this year. The increase was approved at last night’s city council meeting, and follows the city’s usual practice of keeping non-union pay increases in line with increases granted to union workers. The city will continue to make …
Read More »First Leg of U.P. Triple Crown Sled Dog Series Canceled
The first major sled dog race of the winter in the Upper Peninsula has been canceled. Organizers of this weekend’s Tahquamenon Country race said recent warm temperatures have packed the generous snowfall received around Christmas into a glaze of ice, making trail conditions unsafe. Rescheduling the race was not feasible. …
Read More »Obituary: David D. Rintala
As received from Memorial Chapel Funeral and Cremation Service: David D. Rintala, 70, a resident of Atlantic Mine, passed away Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at the Omega House in Houghton following a lengthy illness. He was born on June 17, 1952, in Hancock, MI, a son of the late Wallace …
Read More »Pistons Win, Wings Fall – Thursday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school boys basketball tonight… • Houghton plays at Negaunee. • Calumet visits Baraga. • Lake Linden-Hubbell journeys to Wakefield-Marenisco. • Jeffers travels to Bessemer. On the girls schedule… • Calumet welcomes Westwood. Coverage will begin around 7:00 on the Voice of the …
Read More »Shari Tapani Named the First Superior Educator in 2023
A brand new month means a new Superior Educator. And the first local teacher recognized for the new year is Shari Tapani from Houghton Elementary School. Tapani was nominated by a student’s parent, who says that she is a one of a kind individual, and always puts her elementary kids …
Read More »Welcome the Newest Copper Country Resident
The new year has been personified by an image of a baby for hundreds of years, dating back to ancient Greece. And the New Year is a wonderful time to celebrate new arrivals. With residents already having truned the page for the 2023 calendar, the Copper Country had to wait …
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