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Portage crash claims two lives

Kelly Fosness/Daily Mining Gazette The intersection of Onkalo’s Corner Road and the Chassell-Painesdale Road in Portage Township is seen this morning, a few hours after a single-vehicle crash that killed two men. The vehicle drove through the intersection, hitting a power pole guide wire and a tree, seen in the picture, before catching on fire.

May 9, 2008

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP — Two men were killed in a single-vehicle crash early this morning in Portage Township.

At about 12:48 a.m., deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff’s Department received notice of the crash, at the intersection of Onkalo’s Corner Road and the Chassell-Painesdale Road in Portage Township.

The driver was heading north on the Chassell-Painesdale Road when he drove through the intersection, which had a stop sign. The car then hit a power pole guide wire and a tree, catching on fire.

The driver and passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.

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‘Touch the Future’ students hear it from pros who know

May 9, 2008

HOUGHTON — More than 520 students from Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw counties participated in Touch the Future Thursday at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Technological University.

The program is designed to help students narrow their career

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Elementary students mark ACES day with exercises

May 8, 2008

SOUTH RANGE — South Range Elementary sixth-grader Mikayla Kyllonen was running a bit late for her social studies lesson Wednesday, but it was OK. She was in the hallway doing the chicken dance with her friends.

In recognition of ACES (All

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Michigan Tech, IBM to partner

May 8, 2008

HOUGHTON — IBM named Michigan Technological University to its Partnership Executive Program for Universities, officials announced last week. The program partners universities with the IT and services company’s top-level executives. In Tech’s case, th

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