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Michigan Tech University continues to draw students into the Keweenaw Peninsula. The university’s strong reputation for graduating top-tier professionals has allowed the school to enroll more than 1400 incoming freshmen this fall. Marking Michigan Tech’s third year of consecutive growth, and the most amount of students on campus since 1983. …

The first few weeks of the school year can be stressful, especially for students uncomfortable with their skills in stem-focused classes. Tomorrow evening the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Promise Neighborhood Program and Western Upper Peninsula MiSTEM invite students and families to meet Baraga County STEM teachers, check out a robotics …

A Bruce Crossing resident was arrested last night for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, resisting arrest, and damaging police property. Yesterday evening the Ontonagon County Sheriff arrested a 38-year-old Bruce Crossing woman for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. The sheriff’s department reports that the vehicle was found in a roadside …

Students have flown in from far away to start the fall semester at Michigan Tech University. International flags are lined up along Quincy Street in Hancock. All signs of the upcoming parade of nations, next week. The parade celebrates not only Michigan Tech’s diverse student body, and students coming from …

A Covington man has been sentenced for the November 2022 Chassell crash that killed two women. Ryan Orzechowicz, 35 of Covington, was sentenced by the 12th circuit court to serve a minimum of 84 month to 15 years for operating a vehicle while intoxicated resulting in a death. In June …

In the past decade, American culture has seen a rise in the popularity of comic books, movie and video game franchises, and general pop culture. Across the country, comic conventions often take place in large cities often resembling the same cities that leap off the page. But those same pop …

Summer sure has flown by. With plenty of fun early on in their area, and plenty of visitors coming to the Keweenaw; it’s about time local Keweenaw residents get a day of celebration. Tomorrow Hancock will bring to the Copper Country communities its first End–of–Summer celebration. “Which is celebrating our …

Several Upper Peninsula fire departments are receiving funds for upgraded equipment and tools used at fires and traffic accidents. Earlier in the week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced three fire departments will receive over 460,000 dollars. The grants are come from federal department’s FEMA Firefighter grants program. The …

Plans are quickly falling into place for Hancock’s big celebration of summer. There are plenty of fun games for both kids and adults. Hancock DDA coordinator Todd Gast, says that people coming out on Saturday can expect all of the fun the city has during Key Ingredients, just for a …

Hancock will move forward with plans to purchase the Quincy Green and Ryan Street Gardens from O’Keefe LLC., acting for FInlandia University. The city has agreed to a loss of about 20 feet from the west end of the greenspace. The Finlandia Foundation National, who has plans underway to purchase …