Category Archives: Featured

Copper Island Academy breaks ground on a new high school
In 2021, Copper Island Academy established an elementary school and middle school. The copper country's charter school later built a separate gymnasium for physical education programs and indoor pract...
Thomas Fournier Oct 09, 2025

Tigers Force ALDS Game Five - Thursday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School In high school volleyball last night... Ewen-Trout Creek wiped out Watersmeet 3-0 (25-9, 25-12, 25-11). On the volleyball sched...
Todd Overbeek Oct 09, 2025 Created with GIMP

Michigan Technological University celebrates the opening of a new health research center in Grand Rapids
Michigan Technological University's Health Research Institute recently celebrated the opening of a center in Grand Rapids. Last week, Michigan Tech HRI leaders and researchers traveled to Grand Rapids...
Thomas Fournier Oct 08, 2025

Keweenaw Community Foundation and area non-profits learn how charitable gaming can support organizations
Basket raffles, 50/50 drawings, and bingo nights can bring the community together any night. But it feels a bit more special when taking a chance also supports a great cause. Yesterday several copper ...
Thomas Fournier Oct 08, 2025

Boo on the Bay brings families, witches, and wagon rides to L'Anse
Boo on the Bay will welcome ghouls, witches, and many more characters on Friday. The annual event put on by the L'Anse downtown development authority has brought families to the village's downtown sin...
Thomas Fournier Oct 08, 2025

Walk and Roll to School Day encourages pedestrian safety practices
Today is Walk and Roll to School Day in honor of Pedestrian Safety Month. The annual event encourages communities to consider walking or riding a bike to work or school as an initiative to make commun...
Thomas Fournier Oct 08, 2025

Tigers Fall, Face Elimination Today - Wednesday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School In high school volleyball last night... Calumet slipped past Houghton 3-0 (25-23, 25-23, 25-20). For the Gremlins, Kate Filpus ...
Todd Overbeek Oct 08, 2025 Created with GIMP

Michigan's Upper Peninsula tops the list of best places to view Fall Colors with USA Today's 10Best Reader's Choice
It's always a special time of the year when the leaves begin to change in Michigan. Especially as the transformation takes hold of the Upper Peninsula each autumn. Where quant towns welcome an extende...
Thomas Fournier Oct 07, 2025 A view of fall color splendor from the ski hill at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. (Photo courtesy of John Pepin)

Copper Country Snowsports Club gears up for winter on Saturday
Despite last week's unseasonably warm temps, winter will return to the Keweenaw Peninsula. With the return of the snow, also comes the return of Snowsports in the Copper Country. Each new snow sports ...
Thomas Fournier Oct 07, 2025

Keweenaw Community Foundation and Pewabic Street Community Garden create new fund to sustain a green future
A small seed can grow to have a large impact in a community. Recently the Keweenaw Community Foundation announced it will manage a new fund, that will support a community garden in Houghton. The Pewab...
Thomas Fournier Oct 07, 2025






