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Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School This weekend’s Copper Island Classic varsity hockey games between Calumet and Hancock have been postponed. Hancock school officials say a respiratory illness has sidelined so many Bulldogs that they can’t field a full team. No make-up dates have been …

This is an announcement that this weekend’s Varsity Copper Island Classic Hockey games between Hancock and Calumet are being postponed to dates that are yet to be determined. Due to team wide respiratory illnesses, Hancock will not have enough players to field a viable team for this weekend’s scheduled contests.The …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. College Basketball The Michigan Tech men’s basketball team lost 75-57 at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis yesterday. Tyler Robarge scored 12 for the Huskies. The Finlandia men’s team dropped a 78-69 decision at Wisconsin-River Falls last night. Danny Zuchak led the Lions …

As received from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office: An undercover sting operation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula resulted in the arrest of a local man for seeking out an officer posing as an underage girl online for sex, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. William Michael Brunk, 26, of Baraga, …

The Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club is in their second year working with the portage health foundation’s giving Tuesday. Last year the group used those donations and funding from other sources to re work, re route and design new and existing trails in the Maasto Hiihto trail system in Hancock. The …

This past summer Copper Country Senior Meals began working with local farmers and food producers to source ingredients for their meals delivered to seniors in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The addition of local food to their meals has seniors feeling happy and healthy. The new program and efficiency the non-profit has …

There are more than 100 friends of state parks groups around Michigan, but only one calls the Porcupine Mountains home. Friends of the Porkies began with the wilderness state park’s ski club, that operated like an early form of the friends groups that would come later. Officially the Friends of …

For many people in the Copper Country, Thanksgiving will begin with a brisk walk or run. The annual Turkey Trot at U.P. Health System-Portage will begin tomorrow morning at 9:00. Organizer Angela Luskin says all are welcome… It’s a family-friendly event, completely free, there’s no timing. We will have Turkey …

Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly is finalizing plans for the free Thanksgiving dinners they will be serving to local seniors tomorrow.  After two years of delivery-only service caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cathy Kass-Aten says six sit-down sites will be reopened for the holiday… Sacred Heart Church in Calumet, Church …

Hard on the heels of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Christmas season arrives in the Copper Country Friday evening. Hancock’s annual Christmas Walk will take place along Quincy Street between 5:00 and 7:00.  This year’s theme is “Frosty Comes to Hancock.” Santa will be there too, and they will lead the …