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The Girl Scouts have been selling delicious treats like Thin Mints for over 100 years and they have seen their fair share of challenges during that time. Perhaps it is no surprise that troops today are proving resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marketing and Communications Director Missy …

The number of COVID-19 cases has increased in Houghton, Baraga, and Keweenaw Counties, but there is still a lot of good news to be found in Thursday’s update. A reminder that reported cases will now reflect the resumption of indoor dining that started on February 1st. The effect from high …

High School In high school hockey last night…• Jeffers fell to Kingsford 6-3. In girls basketball…• Houghton defeated Chassell 63-42. Stella Wickstrom had 19 points for the Gremlins, and Paige DeForge added 16. Maelene Warren paced the Panthers with 19 points, and Trisha Pietila had 14.• Calumet shut down Iron …

Two corrections officers are on the mend after a stabbing incident Wednesday afternoon. An inmate at the Baraga Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, stabbed a guard in the neck from behind. That officer was able to react and help subdue the prisoner even after sustaining the injury. Another officer …

Now in its sixth year, the snow chapel at Saint Albert the Great on the campus of Michigan Tech has gone viral. Father Ben Hasse says he was speaking with a Twitter user who shared photos from last weekend’s service on the platform. After 4,000 retweets, the man is still …

Taps in some homes will be on for the next two months. The City of Houghton maintains a comprehensive list of service lines, those going from the road into a residence, that are prone to freezing. For customers at those homes, they will be receiving packets in the mail in …

Wednesday’s Houghton City Council meeting delved into an eclectic mix of subjects. The most pressing orders of business involved resolutions 2021-1772 through 2021-1775 which involved the paying of various bills. After those were approved unanimously, each council member was allowed to bring up items that they felt deserved discussion. City …

Yesterday afternoon, our Facebook page had photos and video from multiple crashes in Hancock and nearby Franklin Township. Whiteout conditions were wreaking havoc in Houghton as well. City Police Chief John Donnelly spoke at Wednesday night’s council meeting saying that for the first time, the storms from the past week …

Just days after a crystal meth bust in Hancock, UPSET has made another arrest, this time in Baraga County for the sale of suboxone. Following a one-month investigation in which an agent from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team was able to make two separate purchases of the narcotic, 36-year-old …

High School In high school hockey tonight…• Jeffers skates at Kingsford. In basketball doubleheaders, with girls tipoffs at 5:45, and the boys games following…• Lake Linden-Hubbell hosts Watersmeet• Dollar Bay-Tamarack City travels to Bessemer• Jeffers plays at Wakefield-Marenisco• Republic-Michigamme at L’Anse• Ironwood at Ewen-Trout Creek – that DH starts at …