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Omega House is offering an add-on to its upcoming fundraising concert at the Calumet Theatre. The McCartney Project will appear October 5th, paying tribute to the music of Paul McCartney and the Beatles. The VIP Experience will include a fall color cruise on the Isle Royale Queen IV on October …

The Houghton County Commission will hold a public hearing on the 2019-2020 budget at the start of its regular meeting tonight. Preliminary figures estimate general fund revenue at $10,138,406, with expenditures of $10,068,840. The budget could be adopted during the regular meeting, and must be in place by the end …

Members of the Lake Linden-Hubbell Board of Education got an up close look at the district’s newest school buses last night. The two buses are actually two years old. They were purchased through the Holland Bus Company after they were returned from leases. Superintendent Brad Codere said the combined cost …

As received from the Erickson Crowley Peterson Funeral Home: Rita M. Trevethan, 77, a resident of Houghton passed away on Monday, September 9, 2019 at UP Health System-Portage. She was born on August 25, 1942 in Lake Linden to Robert and Fiina (Ollila) Kuru. She attended the Lake Linden Schools …

An Upper Peninsula business development group is asking the LinkedIn networking website to recognize the Upper Peninsula as a region. Currently, LinkedIn assigns Yoopers either to its Duluth, Wausau, Green Bay or Saginaw regions. Officials at InvestUP say that limits the opportunities for Upper Peninsula professionals to communicate, and often …

Fall has brought out a new wave of telephone scammers. State Police troopers at the Calumet Post remind you never to give out banking or personal information to anyone who calls on the phone. Recent complaints involve a caller who asks for money on behalf of a friend or relative …

Lamprey treatment is scheduled to take place over the next several days at the Ravine River in Arvon Township. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides (Lampricid and Bayluscide) to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. Lampricides are selectively toxic to sea lampreys, but a …

The Baraga County Board of Commissioners held a quiet meeting yesterday. The board held a brief closed session to discuss union negotiations. The public hearing for next year’s budget has been set for September 26th at 4:30 at the courthouse. Commissioners will hold a special meeting to vote on the …

At an otherwise quiet L’Anse Village Council meeting last night, council members voted to contribute 150-dollars toward more extensive advertising of this fall’s Howl-O-Scream Haunted House. The haunted house is a major fundraiser for Meadowbrook Arena, and is looking to bring in more people by expanding its outreach. Village Manager …

A Hancock native will mark a milestone today that few people accomplish. Julia Carlson Dennis will celebrate her 110th birthday. Dennis owned her own accounting business for many years, and continued to serve a few clients until age 90. Fellow members of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church tell us she cleared her …