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High School In high school baseball Saturday… • Calumet at Ontonagon – canceled. • Lake Linden-Hubbell at Merrill – no report. College Baseball The Finlandia University baseball team dropped both ends of its doubleheader at Wisconsin-Whitewater Saturday, 15-2 and 11-4. Chance White homered for the Lions, who will play two more …

On this week’s edition of Copper Country today, Todd Vandyke talks with the three candidates for the open Houghton City Council seat in the May 3rd special election. Hear what they think about the parking deck, waterfront development, and other pertinent issues. Listen to the interview with Mike Salmi here. …

High School In high school baseball yesterday… • Houghton took two games at Kingsford, 11-1 and 5-3. Kade Farrell was the winning pitcher in the opener, and John Horning got the win in the nightcap. • Calumet at Northland Pines – no report. On the baseball schedule today… • Calumet at …

The Forest Service has announced their plans for prescribed burns in the Ottawa and Hiawatha national forests. Prescribed burns will begin in late April, and can continue into the fall. The burn schedule for 2022 is weather and fuel dependent. Five locations will be burned in the Ottawa national forest, …

Stanton Township Fire is offering Emergency Medical Responder training beginning in May. An EMR  is the lowest level of training for first responders, but is a first step toward helping the community. The hope is to never have to use training in a real scenario, but it is always important …

Residents of East Hancock can drink their tap water again. The Boil Water Alert that had been posted early this week for the area from Dunstan Street east to the city limits was lifted Thursday afternoon. It had been imposed after a repair created conditions under which contaminants might have …

COVID-19 case numbers nearly doubled in our region over the past week, but still remain very low. Forty new cases were confirmed, with 24 of those in Houghton County. Twenty-one cases had been confirmed in the previous week. No COVID-related deaths were registered. Official numbers are probably low, since cases …

Walkers and runners can shake off the winter rust Saturday at the UP Health System-Portage Sisu Shuffle. Organizer Angela Luskin says the 5k event is informal, fun, and inclusive… It is family-friendly, all are welcome, the course will be stroller-friendly, and pets are welcome if they’re on leashes. Participants may …

High School In high school baseball yesterday… • Calumet v Ironwood – canceled. • L’Anse v Iron Mountain – no report. On the baseball schedule today, weather and field conditions permitting… • Houghton travels to Kingsford. • Calumet journeys to Northland Pines. On the baseball schedule tomorrow… • Calumet at Ontonagon …

Update: the victim has been identified as Anthony Paul Shepheard. See his obituary here. A fatal car accident occurred on M-26 yesterday in Calumet. At close to 6pm Michigan State troopers responded to a two vehicle personal injury crash near Henwood Road, on M-26. A 27 year old Calumet man …