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Little League The Portage Lake Little League has canceled its summer season. The announcement yesterday noted that COVID-19 restrictions have not yet been relaxed enough to permit play. With no guarantee that restrictions will be eased further in the near future, league officials said they did not feel that sign-ups …

Houghton’s City Council meets tonight at 5:30pm electronically. Items on the agenda include a discharge of the mortgage for Tapio properties, and discussions on ordinances 308 and 309, which deal with Phase II of the water and sewer bonds, look for a community garden request to be discussed as well.  …

Another 4th of July Celebration falls victim to COVID-19. Jerry Schmitt, Co-Chair of the Hubbell-Tamarack City 4th of July Committee. Last week, the Village of Lake Linden called off their Indepence Day Celebration, also due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stay informed. That was the message from Governor Whitmer, as she held a press conference yesterday afternoon. She had this to say about a new website that healthcare experts have been working on. A link to the dashboard is here. Chief Health Officer Joneigh Khaldun. To date, Michigan has 55,104 …

The Village of L’Anse continues to prepare for summer. At last night’s brief council meeting, village manager Bob LaFave said city crews are working on water and road-patching projects. Some amenities at Waterfront Park remain closed because of COVID-19 concerns. Council members approved minor changes to the Village Information Manual. …

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 …