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Michigan Tech’s Board of Trustees will hold its graduation weekend meeting Friday morning.  The agenda is typically presentation-heavy, with many of the university’s constituencies briefing trustees about their accomplishments this year. The board will be asked to approve three new degrees…• Bachelor of Science degree in Business Analytics in the …

The League of Women Voters of the Copper Country has posted its guide to Tuesday’s elections.  The website includes information about the three candidates running for the one available Houghton city council seat, along with other local issues, including:  • The proposal in the Village of Calumet asking if the …

The Portage Lake District Library has a new director.  Katrina Linde-Moriarty will start work at the library on Monday. Linde-Moriarty previously served as director of the public library in Monticello, Wisconsin – a small town south of Madison. She holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and history from the …

Michigan Tech graduates will also take to the stage this weekend. On Saturday graduates and their families will gather in MacInnes Ice Arena for commencement. Calumet native, Brooke Tienhaara, will deliver the student speaker speech. Graduating students will also hear from writer, radio host, and college instructor John U. Bacon. …

Finlandia University’s commencement is bound to be an exciting time for students and families. This year’s graduating class will hear from one of their own, in student representative, Arty Puntus. As well as Vance Blackfox, the Director of Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. On Saturday, …

Michigan Tech is breaking ground on their H-STEM Engineering and Health Technologies Complex. Tomorrow the university is inviting the public to a ground breaking ceremony. The new complex will begin work near the Chemical Sciences and Engineering building on the west end of campus. The H-STEM Complex will play a …

Additional electric vehicle charging stations will soon be available in the City of Houghton. Two new units are scheduled to arrive within the next few days. One will be installed on each edge of downtown – on the upper levels of the parking decks across from the City Center, and …

Houghton city voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select a new council member. Mike Salmi, Robyn Johnson and Craig Waddell are on the ballot, and all appeared on Copper Country Today this past Sunday. With a bill for more than a million dollars coming up for demolition of …

Weather is delaying the opening of roadside parks operated by the Michigan Department of Transportation in the Copper Country. Most of MDOT’s seasonal roadside parks will open today, although running water may not yet be turned on. Parks in the Copper Country probably won’t be unlocked until mid-May. They include …

Last Friday MTU students won at Central Michigan Univeristy’s New Venture Challenge. Each year the two universities collaborate so Tech students have an opportunity to showcase innovative business ideas. In total four huskies were awarded for pitches on ecommerce solutions in construction material supply chains, an electronic child safety bracelet, …