Category Archives: News

Keweenaw County seeks to engage with communities for a new master plan
Keweenaw County has started work on updating its master plan. The non-governing document serves as a guide for potential future development, projects, programs, or endeavors a community wishes to unde...
Thomas Fournier Aug 15, 2025

Friends of the Portage Lake District Library Used Book Sale opens today at Hancock Schools Public Library
Friends of the Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) opens the annual used book sale today, offering the community a chance to pick up a new book for an affordable price. The Used Books Sale will sell ...
Thomas Fournier Aug 15, 2025

Calumet Theatre welcomes Keith Anderson to the stage on the 20th Anniversary Tour of Pickin' Wildflowers
Woody Guthrie, Edgar Winter, Davy Jones, and many other incredible artists have taken center stage in Calumet. This Saturday night, country artist Keith Anderson will join the theatre's lineup of musi...
Thomas Fournier Aug 15, 2025

Drivers Education starts soon after the school bell rings
Students will return to the classroom on the first Monday in September. And soon after picking up a pencil again. And some students will pick up a set of keys and hop behind the wheel for the first ti...
Thomas Fournier Aug 14, 2025

Two pop-up E-Waste collection sites will set up in Calumet and Houghton
There's not much you can do with an old tube TV, cellphone with a broken screen or old printer that once hummed with faxes. On Friday and Saturday EGLE, Great Lakes Climate Corps, and Superior Watersh...
Thomas Fournier Aug 14, 2025

The Rozsa Center provides entertainment and a venue for the community to enjoy performances over 25 years
As the Rozsa Center at Michigan Technological University enters its 25th year, the theater is planning an exciting season. Over the years, the theater has hosted unique and acclaimed shows, performers...
Thomas Fournier Aug 14, 2025

Continued growth in the Copper Country drives work on housing projects in Houghton
The Keweenaw Peninsula's need for housing stock continues to drive development. Last night, the Houghton City Council approved a concurrence for the Gateway project. Demolition of the Hodge building i...
Thomas Fournier Aug 14, 2025

The Big Annie Statue project closing in on $150,000 fundraising goal
In 2023, residents from Calumet began working on a project to recognize a special figure in the town's history. Two years later, the Big Annie statue fund has nearly completed raising its fundraising ...
Thomas Fournier Aug 13, 2025

Keweenaw Land Trust stewards Hungarian Falls Nature Area across seasons changing
Keweenaw Land Trust has maintained the Hungarian Falls Nature Area since 2013. The ten-acre area includes a three-mile out-and-back trail that explores the upper and lower falls and a nearby dam. KLT ...
Thomas Fournier Aug 13, 2025

Stuff a Bus reaches 383 students, needs more support to fill backpacks
At the start of August, Copper Country Angel Mission and the Salvation Army partnered to support finding school supplies for the Keweenaw's kids. The program worked with the Copper Country Intermediat...
Thomas Fournier Aug 13, 2025






