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Tonight’s Houghton City Council meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals.  The board will consider a request for setback variances for the parcel on Memorial Drive which, for many years, was the home of the Hardee’s restaurant. Dairyland Operations, LLC, plans to demolish …

Snowmobile trail grooming has resumed in many areas of the western Upper Peninsula, following the recent snowfall. In the Keweenaw, totals early this week ranged from 4 inches in Herman and Watton to 8 inches in Kearsarge. VisitKeweenaw reports that Trail 133 still needs more snow for grooming to resume. …

Michigan Tech’s Spring 2023 Career Fair will be held today at the SDC. Hundreds of companies and recruiters are in town to try to find new employees among Tech’s upcoming graduates. The fair will run from noon until 5:00. Because of the activity, the SDC multipurpose room and racquetball courts …

Tomorrow is National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day. The day was established in 2017 to highlight the work done by school bus drivers to get kids safely to and from school each day. In the Keweenaw Peninsula driving school buses can come with extra safety precautions with loads of snow …

Just in time for Copper Dog next week, the Copper Country has been blanketed by some snow. And just in time for volunteer training this weekend. Race organizers encourage all volunteers attend training especially first timers. Volunteers play a key role to the function of the Copper Dog races, and …

Copper Country truckers can return to the roads with full weight this morning.  Seasonal load restrictions, which went into effect last week, were temporarily suspended yesterday. Temperatures back at seasonal levels should reverse the ground frost thaw that had forced load limits to be implemented weeks ahead of the usual …

The Calumet Village Council will consider appointments to both the Housing Commission and the Historic District Commission at tonight’s meeting. City staff will also provide an update about the road closing for the opening ceremony of the CopperDog 150 a week from Friday. Tonight’s session begins at 6:00 at village …

The Houghton City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting tonight at 5:30 at the City Center. The purpose of the special meeting is to receive the results of the Quality-of-Life survey done in September. The survey was conducted as part of the commission’s work revising the city’s master plan. …

Debbie Stouffer will continue as president of the Baraga County Chamber of Commerce.  Stouffer was re-elected to the Chamber board of directors at the organization’s recent annual meeting, and then re-elected to the top spot. Carla Engle was also returned to the board, and Mary Stafford was elected as a …

A Gladstone man died over the weekend when the side-by-side ATV on which he was riding plunged through the ice on the Escanaba River. The Delta County Sheriff’s Department was called out shortly after 7:00 Saturday morning. One man riding the side-by-side was pulled from the water by nearby fishermen. …