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WEB2 days ago · HOUGHTON — Houghton High School’s baseball and softball teams will add players from Dollar Bay through a co-op agreement. The two-year agreement approved by the Houghton-Portage Township Schools board Monday night starts with this school year. Dollar Bay had reached out to other districts in the area, which had turned them down because it would […]
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WEB6 days ago · Ingeborg Viola (Aittama)Thomas, 92, passed away peacefully on August 22, 2024. She was affectionately known as “MA” to dozens of kids that knew her. Inge was born on October 23, 1931, and sat at number 11 of 12 children born to Charles Aittama and Hilda (Erickson) Aittama of Bootjack/Lake Linden, Michigan. Ma met Ken “Pap” […]
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WEB4 days ago · Council approves bid for new village hall roof. CALUMET — The Calumet Village Council last week approved a motion to accept the bid from Copper Range Roofing for replacement of the roof of the Village Hall. The bid is for the amount of $112,450, with a required 50% deposit upon signing the contract. The project is fully funded by a grant ...
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WEB4 days ago · September 10, 2024 - Local News. HOUGHTON — The trial of a Wisconsin mother and son accused of murdering a Hancock Township relative at his home last year has been postponed. Margaret Kempainen, 51, and Jacob Kempainen, 21, had originally been scheduled for the October trial docket. Last week, that was moved to January. ... Page: 1 of 100. 1. 2.
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WEB4 days ago · Gremlins volleyball tops Jets. September 7, 2024 - Local Sports. PAINESDALE — On Thursday evening, the Houghton Gremlins topped the host Jeffers Jets, winning in five sets, 24-26, 25-23, 24-26, 25-18 and 15-13. Jeffers jumped out to a one-game lead by winning the first game by two. Houghton responded with a second set win, also by two.
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WEB6 days ago · Copper Shores Outreach & Education is pleased to announce free Narcan training sessions aimed at equipping community members with vital skills to respond to opioid overdoses and save lives. They will take place on Sept. 19 in Houghton and Sept. 23 in Baraga. Naloxone (Narcan) is a life-saving medication that …
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WEB6 days ago · HANCOCK- Consistency was the name of the game for the Hancock Bulldogs’ volleyball team on Thursday as they shut out the visiting Jeffers Jets 3-0 (25-20, 25-16, 25-16). They stayed the course and forced the Jets to play catch up, and much to the delight of Hancock coach Brian Lampaa the Jets never did. “We […]
County investigating PFAS contamination at old landfill
WEBAug 15, 2024 · HOUGHTON — Houghton County is looking to see what remedies might be needed after PFAS contamination was detected at a former landfill site in Portage Township. The former Peterson-Lahti Landfill operated from 1988 to 1995, before modern safety standards went into effect. As a Type III landfill, it accepted construction material, and so “was neither […]
Keweenaw reduces requested millage proposal
WEBJul 31, 2024 · Graham Jaehnig/Daily Mining Gazette. EAGLE RIVER — After the Keweenaw County Board approved requesting a 1-mil dedicated millage to fund a full-time county zoning administrator last week, they decreased the amount from 1 mil to a half mil at a special meeting Tuesday morning. The request amounts to 50 cents per $1,000 of …
COVID-19 continues in Copper Country - The Daily Mining Gazette
WEBJun 3, 2022 · For The Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — State data Wednesday listed two more deaths blamed on COVID-19 in Houghton County in the past week, though the number of new confirmed virus positives declined. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday had 35 new confirmed positives in Houghton County, 30 in Baraga […]