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This Saturday at John MacInnis Student Ice Arena, a local high school athlete is bringing the community an adaptive hockey clinic. While in Idaho for a ski camp Houghton High School senior Maria Velat was introduced to the sport by para-Olympians she met while there. Adaptive hockey sits players in …

An upgrade is coming to the Finlandia University College of Health Sciences computer center, thanks to some grant money. The Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation is providing $220,000 over five years to support health science education. The first installment was used last year to install networking and infrastructure …

Bridgefest is looking for vendors. The community celebration in Houghton and Hancock is scheduled to return June 17th and 18th, after a two-year hiatus caused by COVID-19 concerns. Primary food vendors pay $150 for two days. Secondary food vendors pay $100. No outside alcohol vendors are allowed. Commercial non-food vendors …

Three people suffered minor injuries in a traffic crash Tuesday afternoon in Franklin Township. Houghton County Sheriff’s deputies were called to US-41, an eighth of a mile south of Pontiac Road at approximately 2:40. They determined that a 21-year-old Hancock woman lost control of her 2015 GMC truck while southbound …

A 40-year-old Wisconsin man is in the Houghton County jail after his arrest Tuesday on a drug charge. Houghton County Sheriff’s deputies took the man into custody after a traffic stop at midnight Monday. After a brief investigation, officers located and seized a large quantity of crystal methamphetamine and components …

Students feeding the community is something anyone can get behind. On March 30 the Ontonagon Schools Working Mobile Food Pantry will hand out food from Feeding America at the Ontonagon Fire Hall. The working mobile pantry is funded by the Portage health foundation and is a partnership between the organization …

Happy World Water Day! Yesterday students at Hancock Middle School learned just how precious water is in the world.  Claire Fidler, an MTU sustainability student, led the presentation, quizzing students on what place water can be found most. She said that she enjoys showing kids how water and sustainability come …

Two food recalls have been issued that could affect our area. Continental Mills has issued a recall for a single lot of “Great Value Buttermilk Pancake and Waffle Mix” because of potential foreign material contamination. Fragments from a cable used to clear the processing line were discovered in a limited …

The state of Michigan is continuing its advisory that residents limit the amount of smelt from Lake Superior that they eat. The advisory was first posted a year ago, when testing by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources showed elevated levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate in rainbow smelt. Testing later last …

Country music star Russell Dickerson will headline the entertainment at this summer’s U.P. State Fair. The fair will be held in Escanaba August 15th through 21st. The grandstand entertainment schedule will include dirt racing on Monday, a laser light show on Tuesday, an ABBA tribute act on Wednesday, the classic …