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A Michigan Tech Team, has won 1st place in the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program student design competition. The team’s project was in the “Runway Intersection Marking” Category. Built World Enterprise’s winning submission was picked from 63 entries, by a panel of industry, FAA and academic experts. The …

Calumet’s Horizons Alternative High School Principal has won this year’s Michigan Alternative Education Organization Outstanding Administrator of the Year Award. This from the CLK monthly board meeting last night. Joel Asiala was nominated by his entire teaching staff, based on the number of improvements he’s brought to the school, in …

Today is Tax Day. It’s normally April 15th, but due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the treasury department extended the date til today, and Governor Whitmer did the same thing. Michigan’s Treasury Department offered a few tips, to make sure your return gets to where it needs to go. …

Yesterday morning, approximately 4:40 am, Gogebic County Sheriff Deputies recovered the body of 22 year old Watertown, Wisconsin resident, Stephanie Narvaez. She was hiking Saturday evening, with a companion in the Rainbow Falls area, when she slipped, fell into the water, and went over the falls. Rescue efforts were unsuccessful, …

Dial Help has released their quarterly report. From April through June, their Community Impact Crisis Center made contact with just under 800 individuals seeking help. The Prevention and Education Department helped 70 people and an additional 283 people were helped through their Family Support Service, Victim Services and Child Advocacy …

New cases of COVID-19 in multiple Western Upper Peninsula Counties. This from a press release from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. Three new cases in Gogebic County, and 1 new case each for Keweenaw and Houghton Counties. Due to privacy laws, no further information was available but the case …

An Amasa man is dead, after an apparent drowning in southern Baraga County. Michigan State Police troopers found the body of 71-year-old Gary Stroud yesterday afternoon around 2:00 at Ned Lake, south of Nestoria, and just north of the Iron County line. They say it appears that he was tending …

A Marquette man is going to prison for a very long time. Jonathan Collins, 41 will serve the next 324 months behind bars, after he pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of a substance with detectable amounts of methamphetamine. Collins was pulled over in November …

Michigan Tech’s Dean of Engineering, has been initiated as a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education. Janet Callahan, who is also a professor of materials and engineering, said she was pleased and honored to join a distinguished community of ASEE Fellows who support engineering education and have dedicated …

The search for a missing Wisconsin woman continues, this from ABC 10. On Saturday evening, Stephanie Narvaez, of Watertown, WI and Karl Nelson of Milwaukee, WI, were hiking in the Rainbow Falls area, when Narvaez lost her footing attempting to cross the Black River, just above the waterfall. She fell …