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Seasonal spookiness continues in the Copper Country. Kids are invited to trick or treat this afternoon from 4:00 until 6:00 at the Ranger III on the Houghton Waterfront. After that, the Portage Lake District Library and the Houghton Police Department are hosting a family-friendly Halloween party at the library… Houghton …

Michigan’s latest round of Wildlife Habitat Grants includes two projects in the Copper Country. The Copper Country Chapter of the American Woodcock Society will receive $16,400 for a project in Keweenaw County. The Sustainable Resources Institute will get $138,600 for projects in Baraga and Ontonagon Counties, along with other efforts …

Michigan Tech is hosting a record number of Fulbright Scholars this year. A report in Tech Today says 17 students are on campus. 14 are pursuing master’s degrees, and three are PhD students. They hail from Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lesotho, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Togo …

The Village of L’Anse’s community solar power array is now online. Village manager Bob LaFave told the council last night that more than 90 percent the panels have been purchased… Investors will begin to see credits on their November electrical bills.  LaFave also told the council that work has wrapped …

Dial Help’s Teen Outreach Program is expanding its after-school activities this year. After a pilot program for high schoolers went well last year, it will also be offered to middle school students. Known as the TOP club, it meets weekly at selected schools, but Prevention Coordinator Chris Schuldt says it’s …

A Champion woman is headed to prison for cyberstalking. 56-year-old Theresa Louise Harris was convicted of harassing her former boyfriend, and his friends and members of his family in the Marquette area. From 2014 through August of last year, she hacked into cell phone accounts, sent fake emails and texts, …

Gasoline prices in Michigan tumbled by 14 cents per gallon over the past week. The statewide average is at $2.49 for a gallon of unleaded. Prices are higher in most of the Upper Peninsula. AAA Michigan pegged the average price in the Marquette market at $2.54 yesterday… seven cents less …

Population projections for Michigan released recently by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget don’t bode well for the Upper Peninsula. On the whole, Michigan’s population is expected to grow by about a half-million people over the next decade. Much of that gain will be focused in the Ann Arbor …

Good weather bolstered the attendance at a number of Halloween-themed events in the Copper Country Saturday. At Treat Street on Shelden Avenue, Houghton city councilor Robert Magowen said they had a record turnout… This year, businesses and organizations from outside downtown Houghton were invited to set up along the sidewalks… …

A woman died yesterday morning in a mobile home fire in Gwinn. A Marquette County Sheriff’s Department release said the trailer was fully involved when Sands Township firefighters arrived on the scene around 9:00. Rescuers could not enter. The body was found later, in the wreckage. No identification has been …