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Horst Schmidt and Ginny Hemmer stop by to help you figure out how to responsibly get rid of your extra Christmas waste. From the tree to packaging, there is an option for all of it. Two guests in one segment. CLK Rotary member Joel Keranen talks about the group’s efforts …

High School In high school hockey, the MacInnes Holiday Classic opens tonight at the SDC… • Houghton takes on North Fond du Lac at 5:30. • Calumet faces Hancock at 7:30. The consolation and championship contests will take place tomorrow night. Our exclusive coverage of all four games will begin …

NHL The NHL’s COVID-19 pause has gotten longer. The league is delaying the resumption of games until Tuesday, to allow teams time to process the latest round of tests. That wipes out the Red Wings’ game against the New York Rangers that was scheduled for Monday. NBA The Detroit Pistons …

College Basketball Former Calumet High School standout Elli Djerf will join the Finlandia University women’s basketball team. Djerf is transferring in from Northern Michigan University. She averaged 20 points per game as a senior for the Copper Kings, and scored more than 1,000 points in her high school career. She …

Bobcats are common throughout Michigan. But residents don’t see them that often. The opportunity to help one of the big cats out of a sticky situation is even rarer. But that’s what happened last week when a resident found a bobcat kitten on the side of the road in Dickinson …

If you stroll down Broad and Main Streets in L’Anse, you’ll see roughly 40 trees decorated for a great cause. Village Manager Bob LaFave says customers can vote for their favorites by leaving a monetary donation in a box kept near the front door of each participating establishment. Individuals, when …

James Lord Pierpont, writer of perhaps the most famous Christmas carol in history, has strong family ties to Ontonagon County. Pierpont penned Jingle Bells in the 1850’s, pretty close to the version that is sung to this day. He called it ‘The One-Horse Open Sleigh’ when he first put it …

Santa is making an early stop in the Copper Country for several nonprofits. The Portage Health Foundation is inviting the 22 organizations involved with its Giving Tuesday initiative to collect their checks on Friday. The total is an eyepopping one. Once the $200,000 match from PHF is figured in, it …

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has reached a deal with the Straits Area Snowmobile Club to resume grooming trails in Mackinac and Chippewa Counties. The agreement covers over 100 miles of routes between Saint Ignace, Epoufette, and Trout Lake. Negotiations have been ongoing for weeks. The DNR had previously …

Just before Christmas in 1913, one of the greatest tragedies in Copper Country history occurred. The Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw Rotary has been commemorating the Italian Hall disaster for decades, and will do so again beginning this afternoon. At 4:30 PM the village firehall siren will sound to mark when the first call …