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Ordinance 2020-310 is on it’s way to public hearings next month, with no restrictions on the number of licenses for either medical or recreational marijuana. This from the City of Houghton’s Planning Commission meeting last night. Commission member Dan Liebau. Ordinance 2020-311, which deals with a specific central business district …

Finlandia Finlandia University has a new athletic conference affiliation. The Lions teams that had competed in the American Collegiate Athletic Association will now be members of the Capital Athletic Conference. The move is a result of a merger between the ACAA and the CAC. Former ACAA members UC-Santa Cruz, Mills …

Houghton County has two new cases of COVID-19. This from a press release from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. Kate Beer, Health Officer. The non state patient will recover here in the UP. Contact tracing for both patients is currently underway. To date, the Western Upper Peninsula now has …

Ontonagon County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an injury accident yesterday approximately 2:10pm. A 25 year old male from Illinois was involved in a single car rollover accident, on M 38 near Plank Road in Greenland. No other vehicles were involved, and excessive speed appeared to be a factor. The Greenland …

Michigan’s Department of Corrections has announced it has tested every single inmate in the state’s prison system. MDOC Director Heidi Washington said the vast majority of prisoners who tested positive exhibited no symptoms, and made it more challenging to control the spread of the disease. Michigan’s National Guard assisted with …

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services has announced a change in the way they report COVID-19 data. Until now, Michigan and other states did not separate data for diagnostic and serology testing. As the state expands diagnostic testing, to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the website will now …

The City of Houghton’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 5:30pm electronically. A link to join the meeting is here. To join by phone, dial 1 312 626 6799 and enter Meeting ID 882 3710 7494. And a quick reminder, trash pick up in Houghton will be one day behind this …

In an email sent to parents, Hancock Schools Superintendent Steve Patchin updated parents on several issues important to the district. He began by saying the district can count on losing up to $700 per student due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state is expected to lose up to $1.1 Billion …

In response to certain sectors of the economy being allowed to reopen, the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce, Keweenaw Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance and Superior National Bank, have partnered up, and are offering reopening kits, designed to help small businesses reopen safely. The kits contain face …

As we come up on the two year anniversary of the Father’s Day Flood, local construction worker Keith Sever remembers it well. As a result of that, Sever and his wife have decided to help out the residents of Midland, as they deal with their entire town being under water, …