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Fast paced. Plenty of hard hits. And an out of this world level of competition. Tomorrow the Keweenaw Roller Derby will host the ninth annual Solar System Smack-down. The mixer brings together roller derby skaters from around the region, and are split into two interstellar teams going head to head. …

No town quite does Labor Day like the Village of Ontonagon. Today starts the 67th annual three day festival. This year festival organizers will honor Vietnam Moving Wall memorial founder, John Devitt, as the parade marshall. The Vietnam Moving Wall has traveled throughout the United States since 1984, honoring those …

Celebrating the Keweenaw’s mountain biking trails and community, Copper Harbor hosts the Copper Harbor Trails Club’s Copper Harbor Trails Fest. The annual event will invite well over 500 bikers to the small town. Trails Club Executive Director says that there are plenty of great things to do around town during …

Michigan Tech University’s Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning has announced the 2023 faculty members receiving Instructional Awards. This year’s award winners will present during a luncheon an overview of their efforts that led to being honored with an instructional award. The Jackson center’s 2023  award recipients are; Elham Asgari, …

Three people were rescued Tuesday from a capsized vessel near Saxon Harbor, Wisconsin. On Tuesday, just before 11:30 am, the coast guard received a distressed radio broadcast from a person reporting that their vessel was rapidly taking on water. The coast guard was able to locate the vessel’s position five …

The Keweenaw Area Community Foundation spreads funding throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula to support projects and programs organized by other area non-profits. Staring tomorrow, the Keweenaw Area Community Foundation will open applications for the group’s fall grants. Fall grant applications with the foundation will remain open until October 20th. When the …

For National Overdose Awareness Day the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department has made the lifesaving drug Naloxone available for free. Naloxone, more commonly known as Narcan, is used in overdose cases in order to temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Allowing a subject to begin breathing again. “August …

Houghton will plan to set aside 125,000 dollars toward the city’s match portion for a community center grant that will seek to make improvements at the Dee Stadium. The city plans to submit paperwork to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity for its Community Center Grant Program. Which …

This week marks Hancock’s first fall season without students walking around campus at Finlandia University. Since March, there has been little movement with properties at the now defunct school. But there is some good news for the community. Finlandia’s state receiver, Patrick O’Keefe of O’Keefe LLC, has recently agreed to …

Continuing the Finlandia Art Gallery’s promotion of local art and artists, the gallery will host the Finnish American Folk School’s instructors’ exhibit. Tomorrow evening the Finlandia University Art Gallery will welcome the public to a special reception for the Folk School at Midsummer exhibit. The gallery shows works by Finnish …