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HANCOCK — Winter’s almost half over, so celebrate the season’s midpoint by learning a new Finnish folk tradition. As part of the Heikinpäivä festival, folks will have the chance to learn to make squeaky cheese (leipäjuusto in Finnish) or to partake in the fiber art of spinning. The cheese classes …

The Citizen’s Climate Lobby is a non-partisan climate action group focused on positive solutions. They are inviting everyone to their monthly chapter meeting on January 15th from 5:30-7pm at the Portage Lake District Library. The group will join a brief video talk by journalist Amanda Ripley, who focuses on clear, …

The theater class of Houghton High School will be performing Little Women this weekend in the school’s auditorium. The drama was adopted by Marisha Chamberlain from the novel by Louisa May Alcott and is directed by Houghton English teacher Ruth Ryynanen.  Performers include class students Hunter Bishop, Ilya Holden, and …

HANCOCK, MI – Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center (UGL) welcomes Brittany Wadaga, Nurse Practitioner (NP), to their team of Family Medicine providers. She will be serving patients at UGL’s Hancock Family Health Center – Family Practice and will also assist with seeing patients at other UGL locations as needed. …

Chances are if you need to leave the house and run to the store, you drive, take a bus, or a sidewalk to get what you need, but what if you could simply hike through the trail. That’s a possible goal that Main Street Calumet hopes to achieve. “We have …

A Festival Series of Three Unique Concerts of New Music Tuesday, January 8, 2019 – Houghton, MI—Michigan Tech’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and Libby Meyer, Lecturer, Visual and Performing Arts and Director, Music Composition Program, are pleased to present a festival series …

Michigan Tech is featuring real huskies for the first time in school history in a competitive sled dog team. The Mushing Club of Michigan Tech was formed in 2018 by students Adam Schmidt and Claire Hendricks and is the only known college mushing organization. The group works with local musher …

Many New Year’s resolutions are about living a little bit healthier.  A new event at the UP Health System Fitness Center in Houghton will help people do just that.  It’s called A Healthier You and takes place this Saturday from 10am to noon. Health & Fitness Manager Angela Luskin says …

A fresh blanket of snow in the UP is welcomed with different reactions from those who drive in it. Some love it and can’t wait to play in it, some want more to sustain a bountiful tourist season, and for the folks at the Houghton County Road Commission, they want …

Small communities in the Copper Country could get help demolishing blighted structures under a new program introduced by the state, The Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority is now offering the Michigan Rural Community Demolition Grant…available to local governments with populations under 50,000. The funds are designed to help communities …