Finlandia The Finlandia University baseball team has signed another player. Eastyn Culp is a pitcher and infielder from Vancouver, Washington. MLB Prospects for a Major League Baseball season this summer are suddenly in doubt. Just a few days after saying he was “100 percent certain” that baseball would be played, …
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It’s mid-June, and Houghton County is still behind the state average in terms of completing the 2020 Census form. Currently, Houghton County has a self response rate of 52%, while the state sits at 68%. Glenn Anderson, Chair of Houghton County’s Complete Count Committee. Residents are reminded that funding for …
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Campus visits for potential students return to Michigan Tech next Monday. It’s part of Step Two, in Tech’s Three Step plan to return to normal. Safety protocols will be in place, which include tour guides and visitors wearing facial coverings while inside buildings, group sizes will be limited to 25 …
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Michiganders will have a new way to request an absentee ballot in the upcoming August primary election. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has announced the state has launched a new, online platform, which provides voters a method of digitally submitting their absentee ballot application on the state’s website. Benson stated …
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Should Northern Michigan University remove a monument some believe has racist ties? A petition has been circulating for the last few days, asking President Fritz Erickson and the school’s Board of Trustees to remove the monument with ties to the apatheid movement in South Africa, which started in 1948, and …
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For those of you wanting the Main Street Calumet Farmers Market to start back up, the wait is almost over. On Saturday, and every Saturday through mid-October, the market will be open from 10-2p, with lots of new changes. New changes start with a new location, they will now operate …
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Curbside pickup of library materials starts today, as the Portage Lake District Library begins Step Two of their Four Step plan to return to normal. Since the library was closed in March, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, no one was able to pick things up. Patrons can now request library …
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A mobile meth lab in Houghton? Not anymore. Yesterday UPSET detectives assisted the Houghton Police Department in busting up a meth lab in a vehicle. Police were performing a search warrant on a vehicle that was involved with the theft of two trailers, two snowmobiles and a motorcycle last weekend, …
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Two of Michigan’s Five Great Lakes have once again set new records for monthly mean water levels. This from an email from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District. Lakes Michigan and Erie set new records for May. Lake Michigan last saw levels this high back in 1986, while …
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On Monday, Michigan Tech enters Step Two of their Three Step Return to Campus Plan. As a result of that, Michigan Tech’s Flex Team is working hard, to ensure an excellent Michigan Tech Experience for all students, faculty and staff, when they return in the Fall. With that, there will …
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