Work resumes today on the rebuild of College Avenue/US-41 in Houghton. The road from the west edge of the Michigan Tech campus to Franklin Square will be widened, and a center turn lane added. Water and sanitary sewer lines will be replaced, and storm drains will be upgraded along the …
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More than 950 Michigan Tech students received bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees Saturday. The commencement ceremony at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena featured an address by student speaker Brooke Tienhaara of Calumet, who admitted the road to her degree hadn’t been a straight one… Last year, I was supposed …
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Finlandia University handed out diplomas at its commencement ceremony in the Hirvonen Hall Auditorium Sunday. Student speaker Arty Puntus, a native of Belarus, also noted that the special challenges his class faced will have a silver lining… It’s really important to look at adversity and obstacles as a positive thing, …
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Another of the three Copper Country residents arrested on child sex charges in mid-March has had his case bound over to Circuit Court. In District Court Friday morning, 34-year-old Jeffrey David Redd of Laurium waived his preliminary exam. He faces charges of Child Sexually Abusive Activity, Use of a Computer …
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High School In high school baseball Saturday… • Calumet v Gladstone – no report. • Lake Linden-Hubbell at the Hillman tournament – no report. College Baseball The Finlandia University baseball team’s doubleheader at Wisconsin-Eau Claire Saturday was postponed. The Lions and BluGolds will play two today, and two more tomorrow. …
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High School In high school baseball yesterday… • Calumet swept the Gogebic Miners 9-4 and 14-7. Dryden Nelson led the Copper Kings with five hits, four stolen bases and seven RBI’s. Lars Peterson added four hits and five RBI’s. Braydon Cima and Alex Tarnowski shared the pitching in game one, …
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Houghton County named a new chairperson for the Board of Commissioners. In a special meeting called this morning Commissioner Gretchen Janssen nominated, Vice Chairman Tom Tikkanen, to the role of Chairman. Tikkanen takes on the role after the sudden passing of former Chairman Albert Koskela. Koskela passed away on this …
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Keweenaw Crane Service, LLC recently had some crane mats stolen from their property on US-41 sometime in the last couple of days. They are asking for whoever did take the pads, to please return them. 30 pads were taken, at a value of $500. Keweenaw Crane Service has stated …
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Keweenaw Wild Ones is hosting the Keweenaw Native Plant Symposium virtually this year. On Saturday attendees can tune in and hear from a variety of speakers talking about the importance of native plants, pollinators, and how native plants help reestablish a region’s biodiversity. Heather Holm is the symposium’s keynote speaker. …
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MDOT will restart the College Avenue project on Monday. The summer road project will impact travel around the university and going east out of Houghton on US-41. The next stage of the project is scheduled for throughout summer. To start MDOT will allow traffic to travel north on college avenue …
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