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The Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition invites you to help celebrate the incredible place where we live.  The FREE two-day event will be held at the Michigan Tech Great Lakes Research Center in Houghton March 23 & 24. This year UPEC has reached out to Friends of the Land of Keweenaw (FOLK) and the Michigan Tech …

Are you an area high school student interested in local history? Do you want to compete over it? If so, it’s time to get ready for the 16th Annual High School Local History Smackdown! The Smackdown offers Copper Country high school students the chance to test their knowledge of all things …

The Portage Lake District Library will host the Copper Country League of Women Voters on Tuesday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Martha Sloan will present a discussion of “Statehood for the People of D.C.” She will explain how the citizens of the District of Columbia pay more in federal …

Houghton, Michigan – The Bernard F. Gaffney Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Keweenaw Community Foundation (KCF) is now accepting applications from Houghton High School students or graduates who demonstrate character, need, and determination to achieve their specific educational or training goals. The Bernard F. Gaffney Memorial Scholarship Fund was established …

CALUMET, MI – Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center (UGL) welcomes Whitney Brey, Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C), to their team of family medicine providers at the Calumet Family Health Center. Brey attended Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI, where she received her Bachelor of Science Degree. She then went on …

The Village of L’Anse has one of 11 projects statewide to receive funding from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. A grant of $45,000 was awarded to the village to help construct a community solar array for their municipal electric utility. Nearly $900,000 in total grants were awarded …

The Michigan Department of Natural Recourses is postponing it’s training academy for instructors of the off road vehicle safety program. Originally schedule for April and June, the academies will now be conducted in July and August.   All instructors must attend the three day academy to learn policies, procedures, classroom …

Several Area robotics teams are returning home after a busy weekend in Escanaba. The FIRST robotics district championship took place at Escanaba High school bringing 39 teams from across the state to compete and showcase their weeks of preceding efforts.   Of the Keweenaw teams who competed, Calumet and L’Anse …

1000 batches of beer on the wall. That’s the milestone being celebrated by the Keweenaw Brewing Company. Over the weeken,  local brewer harvested its 1000th batch of brew since its opening in 2004. Head brewer Tom Dueks has been with the company since batch number one … ‘I learned the …

Houghton County has begun the use of an emergency mass notification system. County residents who want to receive the electronic alerts can sing up by logging into the county’s website. In the event of an emergency, participants would receive notifications by a telephone call, text or email. The system is …