Category Archives: Local News

Lake Linden - Hubbell quickly organize benefit concert for Laurium at the Calumet Theatre
The Copper Country comes together to support each other's communities. Tomorrow evening Lake Linden - Hubbell schools will host a benefit concert to help the village of Laurium recover after a fire th...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025 Lake Linden - Hubbell Bands will lead a benefit concert supporting a neighboring community.

Copper Country residents rally alongside 50501 protests nationwide
Some Copper Country residents raised banners in support of the people and the constitution at Bridgeview Park on President's Day. Protestors voiced concerns about recent actions by President Donald Tr...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025 Several residents rallied in the cold and snow on Monday, February 17th, for over an hour.

Mont Ripley Ski Patrol celebrates the 80th anniversary of the 10th Mountain Division
Mont Ripley Ski Patrol celebrates veterans and the 80th anniversary of the formation of a World War Two army ski division. Tomorrow evening Mont Ripley will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 10th ...
Thomas Fournier Feb 17, 2025

Copper Shores victim Support introduces a new victim support group with a self guided resource
Keeping one foot in front of the other can become difficult on a healing journey without support. Next week Copper Shores Victim Support will start a new support group, open to all those seeking growt...
Thomas Fournier Feb 17, 2025

Village of Calumet DDA opens access to the 2025 Small Scale Grants program
Calumet wants to keep the village's historic preservation and community looking good into 2025. In the past several years the village of Calumet has worked to reinvigorate the community, even earning ...
Thomas Fournier Feb 17, 2025 In 2024 Calumet Floral was a recipient of a grant award from the Village of Calumet DDA.

Michigan Technological University professor seeks participants for study of people that use nicotine
Michigan Technological University professor seeks willing participants for a study of those who use nicotine products. Professor William Cooke, with the MTU Department of Kinesiology and Integrative P...
Thomas Fournier Feb 14, 2025

Some sponsors become volunteers during CopperDog weekend in the Keweenaw Peninsula
Since Copperdog first arrived on the Keweenaw peninsula one of the event's largest sponsors has been the incrediblebank in Calumet. Recently incredible bank helped Copperdog kick off its sponsorship d...
Thomas Fournier Feb 14, 2025

Jibba Jabba introduces the Best Stomp competition to the sport of snowboarding
Snowboarding in downtown Houghton took a ten-year break before returning in 2023. The electric atmosphere of the event brings hundreds of spectators, professional snowboarders, and Redbull as a sponso...
Thomas Fournier Feb 14, 2025

Houghton closes Huron Street and posts notices for traffic changes during Jibba Jabba
Jibba Jabba's course appears almost as quickly as the Huron Street snow hill disappears. The Houghton Department of Public Works will close Huron Street today to construct the snow course for the week...
Thomas Fournier Feb 13, 2025

Houghton County Sheriff Office encourages drivers to give plows more space while on the road
Snow plows are back out maintaining the Copper Country's roadways after multiple snow squalls dropped more than a few inches of snow. In the last week the Copper Country's snow tracker, the Keweenaw C...
Thomas Fournier Feb 13, 2025