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Chassell native Erik Kiilunen, who founded the “All Business is Essential” campaign met with some high profile people in Owosso yesterday. Kiilunun was joined by Shelly Luther, the salon owner from Dallas who was jailed for reopening her salon, and 77-year old Karl Manke from Owosso, who recently had his …

Hancock’s high school graduation ceremony is scheduled for May 30th. That’s on the condition that Governor Whitmer’s “Stay Home Stay Safe” Executive Order is lifted on the 28th. If the order is extended by two weeks, the ceremony would take place on June 13th. Hancock’s Board of Education is also …

The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department has begun contact tracing for the latest positive case, out of Gogebic County. The elderly patient has recently returned from an urban area. Kate Beer Health Officer for the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. To date, the Western Upper Peninsula has had 1204 people …

The Upper Peninsula will begin to re-open for business for the Memorial Day weekend. This afternoon, Governor Gretchen Whitmer indicated that a partial resumption in business activities can begin Friday in the U.P., and a portion of the northern Lower Peninsula. The new order will cover retail establishments, and office …

The Hancock Public Schools Board of Education holds their monthly meeting today at 5:30pm. The meeting is being held electronically. Items on the agenda include an update on the high school graduation, planning for the return in the Fall and voting to approve the budget for the 2021 school year. …

With Governor Whitmer’s “Stay Home Stay Safe” Executive Order still in effect, local retailers are doing the best they can, to serve the community. Adam Rajala, owner of Auto Pro Glass & Tire in Houghton had this to say. John Dittmann, manager of Tadych’s Econofoods. Auto Pro Glass & Tire …

Local non-profit 31 Backpacks is looking for your help. They provide assistance to families in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve also begun offering assistance to Baraga County families as well. Their next donation drive goes to benefit the Copper Country ISD, in the coming …

Governor Whitmer has also extended her executive order, enhancing price gouging restrictions, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The order extends restrictions on price gouging for goods, materials, emergency supplies and food. Under the current order, people or businesses are not allowed to charge 20% more than they sold the same product …

Governor Whitmer has signed an executive order, which allows laboratories to resume their research, under strict precautionary measures. Whitmer said the reopening of laboratory research in Michigan marks another step toward getting Michiganders back to work. Labs conducting research, not those conducting diagnostic work, must adhere to these rules, including …

A ruling on Governor Whitmer’s extension of her “State of Emergency” could come this week. Michigan’s House and Senate took the Governor to court, saying Governor Whitmer has gone against the legislature’s objections, and if this continues, allows the Governor limitless, unilateral, temporally unbounded authority, as long as the Governor …