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For close contacts of people who have tested positive for COVID-19, some welcome relief. The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department is relaxing its requirements by shortening the mandatory quarantine length. Instead of two weeks, the new guidelines say ten days will be appropriate a majority of the time. Symptoms still …

Houghton High School’s Micaela Geborkoff and Logan Sandell were both selected to be part of NASA’s prestigious STEM Enhancement and Space Science summer internship program. SEES studies the atmosphere of Earth and its closest neighboring planets. Normally, students stay at the University of Texas while working at NASA’s Austin center, …

High School In high school baseball today…• Lake Linden-Hubbell plays at Houghton In softball this afternoon…• Hancock visits Calumet. Our coverage will begin at 3:40 on KBear 102 and KBear102.com.• Houghton’s doubleheader against Iron Mountain has been canceled.• Baraga plays at Lake Linden-Hubbell. College Baseball The Finlandia University baseball team …

The first segment has five guests, including Michigan Tech professor Aleksandr Sergeyev and students Heather Harris, Joe Barbercheck, Seth Cherry and Cole Kubick. They teamed for a special Senior Design project that will benefit a disable girl in Alabama. Kevin Cadeau and Commander Jeffrey Burl from the Civil Air Patrol’s …

College Baseball The Finlandia University baseball team lost both of its games at Wisconsin-Whitewater yesterday, 12-4 and 10-0. The Lions took a brief 1-0 lead in the opener, but the Warhawks responded with six runs in the bottom of the first inning to take control. Joe Galindo had three hits …

High School In high school softball yesterday… • Hancock split its doubleheader against Ironwood, losing the first game 6-1, then taking the nightcap 9-8. • Calumet lost at Northland Pines 7-4. In track and field… • At the Ontonagon Invitational… – The Houghton girls edged the Gladiators by five points …

The Copper Country Intermediate School District has announced the replacement for retiring superintendent George Stockero. Jim Rautiola will slide from the top post at Stanton Township schools to the same role at the CCISD. A vote was taken at a special meeting of the board of education Friday morning. Rautiola …

Houghton’s waterfront revamp will happen. Before Wednesday’s budget workshop, the Houghton City Council met for a special session on the pier. The lowest bid came in over $1.6 million above what had been anticipated, thanks to soaring steel prices. City Manager Eric Waara looked at several options to try and …

Executive Director Kevin Store from Portage Health Foundation is excited for what comes next with his organization. In a wide-ranging Copper Country Today interview set to air this Sunday, he lays out a vision for the future that builds many of the recent projects supported by the nonprofit into a …

The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Copper Country Strong have switched to a once-per-week reporting system for COVID-19 cases in the region. The numbers back up this approach outside of potentially Baraga County, where 44 people have contracted the virus over the past seven days. In Houghton, the number …