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The Upper Peninsula Regional Blood Center needs your help, as they are critically low on several blood types. When you donate to the U.P. Regional Blood Center, your blood stays in the U.P.  Blood Collection Coordinator Rachel Heath, listed the types they need. The U.P. Regional Blood Center supplies blood …

Michigan Tech has begun Step One of their MTU Flex Return to Campus Plan. Once you complete the Online return to work SafetySkills training mandated by the state, and fill out the COVID-19 Daily Symptom Monitoring Form, each day before you arrive to work, you will be allowed on Campus. …

Governor Whitmer has extended her executive order, which had previously extended the deadline for Michiganders to pay back taxes and avoid foreclosure on their property during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whitmer said this executive order gives homeowners some piece of mind as we continue to flatten the COVID-19 curve. The order …

Starting Monday, all 131 of Michigan’s Secretary of State Offices will be open by appointment only, to handle transactions that can’t be done online. They’ll be open from 9a-5p Monday through Friday, and strict guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 will be in effect. You’ll be able to …

Portage Health Foundation is offering the James Bogan Health Administration Scholarship to a deserving resident of Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw or Ontonagon counties. The $5,000 scholarship is for a student in a master’s level program, aimed at helping their career in the healthcare field. Applications are due by June 24th at …

Eleven 2020 Hancock High School graduates were awarded $30,000 in scholarships, thanks to the Hancock Public Schools Foundation. The selection committee consists of HPSF Scholarship Committee members, along with representatives from Hancock Public Schools and the HCH Alumni Association. Scholarship winners were Hannah Bastian, Payton Dube, Vanessa Dulong, Jari Juntti, …

Our cases are declining, we’ve ramped up testing and secured enough personal protective equipment to last several weeks, but our work isn’t over. That’s what Governor Whitmer said at her press conference earlier today. She also said we owe it to those who have been there for us from the …

The Michigan Energy Efficiency Contractors Association has named Representative Greg Markkanen as their 2020 Public Official of the Year. Representative Markkanen. Markkanen was in session, when the award was given, but his staff accepted in a virtual ceremony. 

Houghton County has three new confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. Health Officer Kate Beer. Beer stated that despite some of the cases in the Western U.P. being travel related, it is in the community as well, and that we must continue to follow …

The DNR has announced the temporary closing of an ORV Trail in Keweenaw County, due to logging being performed on private property. ORV B Trail, will be closed beginning June 1st, and hopes to reopen by July 15th. During the logging activities, safety of the trail was not possible, and …