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Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In boys basketball this evening…• Calumet plays at Negaunee. Coverage will begin around 7:00 on the Voice of the Copper Kings, KBear 102.3.• Hancock travels to Ishpeming.• Jeffers visits Ontonagon.• L’Anse journeys to Ironwood.• Ewen-Trout Creek hosts Republic-Michigamme. In …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school hockey Saturday… • Houghton pounded Novi 9–1. Camden Markham and Landon Stevens each had two goals and three assists. Mike Maillette had two goals and one assist. Gab Carlson had one goal and four assists. Sully Rajala …

On this week’s Copper Country Today: Heikinpäivä returns to Hancock after a COVID-19 break. Host Todd VanDyke talks with Jim Kurtti of the Finnish Theme Committee about the history of the mid-winter festival, and this year’s plans. Listen to the segment here. The Portage Health Foundation is asking for community …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school hockey last night… • Houghton blanked Brighton 6-0. Camden Markham scored twice in the opening period to give the Gremlins an early lead. Houghton exploded for four tallies in the second frame to put the game away, …

A veteran Heikinpäivä organizer will reign over this year’s event as the 2023 Hankookin Heikki. Mary Aho Brunet was awarded the honor this year, as the mid-winter festival returns after a COVID-19 hiatus.  Jim Kurtti from the Finnish Theme Committee said Brunet will be featured in an event she usually …

As preparations begin for this year’s Winter Carnival snow statue competition, some nationally-recognized experts will visit the area to offer some advice. The group Sculptora Borealis will be in town this weekend, and has set up several sessions that are open not only to Michigan Tech students, but to all …

High school students from across the Copper Country will be dancing for fun, and for a good cause, tomorrow night. The Copper Country Snow Ball semiformal has been put together by seniors at Houghton High School. Organizer Stella Wickstrom thinks it will be a unique opportunity for students… Most schools …

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 …

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 …

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 …