Category Archives: News

Keweenaw Community Foundation announces 2024 fall grant award recipients
The Keweenaw Community Foundation announces it will award 63,050 dollars from its fall 2024 field of interest grants. Last week the Keweenaw Community Foundation announced that 63,050 dollars will be ...
Site Staff Jan 13, 2025

Baraga County Shelter Home shares how domestic violence can impact businesses at upcoming Lunch and Learn in L'Anse
Baraga County Shelter Home will join the Baraga County Chamber of Commerce to host the first lunch and learn program in 2025. Throughout the year the chamber invites various groups in the community to...
Site Staff Jan 13, 2025

97.7 the Wolf and Copper Country Humane Society meets the 12 Dogs of Christmas before raising the woof on the Rozsa Center
The Copper Country Humane Society's 12 Dogs of Christmas leading up to Raise the Woof will end today. But the community will join the area's pets and humane society staff for a laugh and some fun next...
Site Staff Jan 13, 2025

Upper Peninsula Representatives voice concern over DNR proposal for renewable energy projects in Northern Michigan
Upper Peninsula Representatives voice concerns over DNR plans to lease land in Northern Michigan for a solar energy farm. Last week MLIVE reported on DNR plans to seek a lease agreement for a 420-acre...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025

Glad Tidings Church shows appreciation for local law enforcement
Last month Glad Tidings Church began raising funds to support the Hancock Police Department. The fundraiser purchased items like Trauma kits for the department and lined up to end around National Law ...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025

Obituary: Carol Kangas
As received from the Erickson Crowley Peterson Funeral Home: Carol Louise Kangas of Calumet, Michigan passed away on January 8, 2025 at Canal View in Hancock, Michigan. Carol was born on March 30, 193...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025 Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Elise Grentz artwork selected for the 2025 CopperDog poster
A fantastic event that brings hundreds of people to Calumet needs fantastic art. On Wednesday CopperDog shared the race's 2025 poster contest's winning design. Each year the sled dog race organizes an...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025

Portage Lake District Library silent book clubs return next week
Close to a year ago, the Portage Lake district library started a new book club. The silent book club doesn't function like a typical book club though. Twice a month the library brings people together ...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025

The Western Upper Peninsula Farm-to-School program offers kitchen upgrade grants worth $750
The Western Upper Peninsula Farm to School program announces a new grant award to upgrade work spaces for school food service directors. This week the Western Upper Peninsula Farm to School program an...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025
UPDATE: PowerSchool security breach impacts a local school district
UPDATE: CCISD Superintendent confirmed several school districts in the region, including Houghton - Portage Township Schools, use PowerSchool services. The cyberattack against the company has likely i...
Site Staff Jan 10, 2025