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Hancock High School invites parents of all eighth grade students to a very important meeting to discuss course selections for the 2016-17 school year. Course registration materials will be distributed and graduation requirements will be discussed. The will also be a time for parents to ask questions about the Finlandia/Hancock …

Hancock, Michigan—After nine years of dedicated service, Les Cook is leaving the Keweenaw Community Foundation’s (KCF) Board of Trustees due to term limitations. The current Vice President for Student Affairs and Advancement at Michigan Tech, Les joined the KCF board in October, 2006. Since then, Les helped direct over 1.6 …

So…how are the roads? With the spring thaw, work crews have been busy patching potholes, which may bring one to ask–where is all that money that was approved by the legislature last year to fix the roads? State Senator Tom Casperon says most of the money won’t be available for …

A new smartphone app lets you send anonymous text messages to other drivers–using their license plate number. Saul Segall is the developer of Chimo . He says for it to work, both drivers need to be using the app. Segall would like to see it used for good things, like telling …

Lawmakers want to spend more money to test the water in statewide schools. Lansing Bureau chief Tim Skubick reports.  

Two state employees plead not guilty to misconduct and tampering charges related to the Flint water crisis. Department of Environmental Quality supervisor Stephen Busch and engineer Michael Prysby face up to five years in jail if convicted on the charges. They have been suspended without pay from their state jobs. …

14-year-old Abigail Kopf, who was shot in the head during a deadly shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, has left a rehabilitation center. She spent six weeks at a Grand Rapids facility and a couple of weeks in another hospital following the Feb. 20 rampage that killed six people and injured another …

Ekdahl, Jamie                                   McMahon, Sarah Charges are being pursued against two women, 28-year-old Jamie Pauline Ekdahl of Calumet and 35-year-old Sarah Jean McMahon of Laurium. The Houghton County Sheriff’s Office says they allegedly tried …

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Wisconsin-native Bernard Fish, but has remanded his sentence back to the trial court for review.   Fish was sentenced last October to 20 to 40 years in prison for each of two counts of armed robbery, 5 to 20 years …

See photo and full story at finlandia.edu/news Finlandia University is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Kemppainen will be the 2016 commencement speaker. Dr. Kemppainen is currently on the Finlandia University Board of Trustees, and serves as principal at Graveraet Elementary School in Marquette after 10 years as an assistant principal at …