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The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) of the Keweenaw Community Foundation will be hosting a Holiday Book Drive to benefit local youth. The YAC encourages the community to donate new and gently used books and new pajamas for children ages 6-17 years. Books and pajamas will be given to UP Kids to …

The Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock is hosting its 40th annual Poor Artists Sale Saturday. The event runs from 11am-4pm at the CLK Gymnasium in Calumet. The Poor Artists Sale is an annual juried holiday art fair hosted by the Copper Country Community Arts Council as a benefit …

The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge will open for the 2017 season. At a special meeting Wednesday…the Keweenaw County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to fund the Copper Harbor resort, which could cost around $200,000 for the year. Over 200 people packed the room at Horizons Alternative High School in Mohawk for …

This Thursday, Dec 1 from 6-8 PM at the Orpheum / Studio Pizza, the Keweenaw Climate Community (KCC) group continues their series of discussion-centered events about what activities and topics the community can focus on with climate change impacts and people’s responses to those impacts. There are lots of potential …

Dean L. Johnson, currently the James and Dolores Trethewey APMP professor and founding director of the Applied Portfolio Management Program, has been named Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Technological University. The announcement was made by Jackie Huntoon provost and vice president of academic affairs. Johnson …

A Florida man indicted on numerous charges related to the illegal transfer of stolen property from an Upper Peninsula facility was arraigned Tuesday in Federal Court. Michael Donald Reid of Land O’ Lakes, Florida, is charged with 13 counts of interstate transportation of stolen property. According to court records, the charges …

A resolution dealing with parking on residential properties was approved at Wednesday’s Houghton City Council meeting. Under the resolution, off-street parking has to be either on the lot or within 400 feet of the building it is intended to serve. Also in the resolution were incentives for property owners of …

Things are back to normal at Houghton Elementary School, but that wasn’t the case Monday morning. That’s when 30-year-old Niles Nathan Rothenberger of Atlantic Mine was arrested after police received reports that he was acting suspicious. Their investigation allegedly discovered 3.5 grams of marijuana in his vehicle along with a …

Michigan Tech’s Tech Theatre Company is holding public auditions over the next two nights for the play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Auditions will be held tonight and tomorrow in the McArdle Theatre at 7:00 pm. Those wishing to be considered should arrive no later than 6:45. There will be call backs …

This past summer, 11 high school interns from Calumet and Houghton joined professionals at Michigan Tech and the Keweenaw National Historical Park to use the Geographic Information System to explore our region’s past. As a part of GRACE (GIS Resources and Applications for Career Education Project), students were engaged in …