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High School On the boys high school basketball schedule tonight…• Dollar Bay-Tamarack City plays at Calumet.• Hancock welcomes Ishpeming for a make-up game from January 10th. On the girls schedule…• Calumet tips off at Houghton. Coverage will begin around 7:00 on the Voice of the Gremlins, 97.7 The Wolf.• Ontonagon …

High School In high school hockey Saturday… • Calumet fell to Notre Dame de la Baie 5-1. • Jeffers lost 9-2 to the FNV co-op team from Freeland, Saginaw Nouvel and Saginaw Valley Lutheran at the Cheboygan Showcase. The Copper Country Christian School basketball teams split their games at the …

High School Houghton shut out Hancock 4-0 in the Wing Ding hockey game last night. The Gremlins struck early, with goals from Landon Stevens and Camden Markham in the first period. Gaborik Carlson added two in the second stanza. Carlson logged an assist, and Markham had two. Bryant Lee made …

St. Albert the Great Catholic Church will allow parishioners and visitors a unique experience yet again for Winter Carnival. Father Ben Haase says the snow chapel they create has never been entered into the month-long competition but it requires roughly the same amount of work. It also takes a similar …

Houghton City Manager Eric Waara says there are some events planned over the next couple days to tie in with Michigan Tech’s Winter Carnival. Ice will be delivered downtown Friday. We’ll have a carver going on Friday and Saturday. Saturday night fireworks, there is going to be some bonfires out …

Career and technical education students in the Copper Country have enjoyed a week off, so the facility can hold an open house. The Hancock location has welcomed 10th graders from across the Copper Country Intermediate School District to tour the programs held inside the East Quincy Street building, and at …

Cases continue to plummet for every county in the Copper Country and the positivity rate is now in decline as well. State data suggests hospitalizations are also receding rapidly. For the seven-day period ending Wednesday Houghton County registered 106 cases, with Baraga adding 35 and Keweenaw accounting for eight. The …

High School Houghton and Hancock split their Wing Ding basketball games last night… • In the opener, the Hancock girls used a tenacious defense to shut down Houghton 52-45. The Bulldogs got off to a quick start. The Gremlins battled back, and took a brief one-point lead midway through the …

The results are in and unsurprisingly Phi Kappa Tau, in Hancock, took home first place for the men’s month long snow statue competition. Their statue, constructed of snow and ice depicts an old Copper Country scene, with intricate details strewn throughout the structures. They are followed by Tau Kappa Epsilon …

At Wednesday’s Houghton City Council meeting, Manager Eric Waara said that AT&T is now delaying the use of divers to find a bundle of underwater cables responsible for phone service across the Keweenaw Peninsula. Teams will not be available until the beginning of March. After repeated inquiries over the course …