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On this week’s Copper Country Today: Host Todd VanDyke talks with Copper Country Intermediate School District Superintendent James Rautiola about things parents and the community should know heading into the new school year. Listen to the conversation here. Mariana Nakashima and Christian Montesinos from Michigan Tech talk with host Todd …

Organizers of the Houghton County Fair are celebrating another successful event. Carol Saari in the fair office said attendance Thursday and Friday approached, and may have exceeded, record levels. Attendance seemed about average Saturday and Sunday. Full attendance figures won’t be available until advance ticket sales are added into the …

Good weather helped produce a big turnout for this year’s Porcupine Mountains Music Festival. Part of the audience on the ski hill at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Organizer Cheryl Sundberg put it in the “win” column… Every year we can put the festival on, and it we get through …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school volleyball… Houghton fell in the semifinals of the Kingsford Invitational Saturday. The Gremlins won their pool, defeating Iron Mountain and Bark River Harris and splitting with Sault Ste. Marie. Houghton dispatched Hancock 2-1 (25-22, 14-25, 15-13) …

A recent large donation has helped to pay for an upgrade of the mammography unit at Aspirus’ Houghton clinic.   The new state-of-the-art 3D mammography unit honors the memory of Mary Creske. Creske was a Wisconsin native, who began her career as a dental hygienist. She eventually earned a Doctorate …

More Upper Peninsula workers had jobs in July than in June, but a bigger increase in the number of enrolled workers pushed the unemployment rate slightly higher. The 5.8 percent rate across the peninsula is not seasonally adjusted. June’s rate was 5.5 percent. Officials with the Michigan Department of Technology, …

Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital and Clinics has added Family Medicine Physician Kristi Wegener, MD, to its the staff of its Laurium clinic. Dr. Wegener specializes in comprehensive and preventative care for the whole family. She has special interests in preventative, outpatient, integrative and lifestyle medicine.  Dr. Wegener is originally from Bay …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School   The local high school volleyball season is underway… Calumet at the Cadillac Invitational – no report. Wakefield-Marenisco won the season-opening Copper Mountain Conference tournament at Lake Linden yesterday, defeating Ewen-Trout Creek 2-0 (25-10, 25-15) in the best-of-three championship …

Pamela Hecht was named Exhibitor of the Year at the 2024 Houghton County Fair. The award is presented to the person with the highest aggregate score in the “still” exhibition category. Hazel Tepsa was presented with the Agnes Ahola Award. Silver Platter Awards were presented to the winners of individual …

Northern Michigan University becomes the first high education institution to collaborate with the Department of Defense’s Northern Strike exercise. Northern Michigan University recently announced eight information assurance/cyber defense students earned an opportunity to work alongside military cybersecurity teams from the United States and NATO ally Latvia earlier this month. The …