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Hero comes home

SCHOOLCRAFT TOWNSHIP – After nearly 82 years, a local soldier has finally returned home to the Copper Country. Sergeant Robert James Goldsworthy, a Lake Linden native long listed by the U.S. Army as missing in…

Against the grain

HANCOCK — Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the vaccine recommendations for early childhood across the…

Sit-in at Copperwood Mine

GOGEBIC COUNTY — A member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) has organized a sit-in encampment next to the…

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Hero comes home

SCHOOLCRAFT TOWNSHIP – After nearly 82 years, a local soldier has finally returned home…

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Dear Annie

Editor's note: ANNIE LANE IS OFF TODAY. THE FOLLOWING COLUMN WAS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED IN…

Did/will you travel on a vacation this summer?

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor

Navy Street Extension Saga seems to be heating up Editor, The Hancock City Manager at one time was heard to say something to the effect of excusing herself from decision making on the Navy Street extension issue. However even now, the Mayor, Hancock City Council and DDA Members seemed to have all lost their…

Editorial

The meaning of the Fourth of July

Each July 4, Americans both at home and abroad, gather to celebrate. Under skies ablaze with fireworks, on streets lined with youngsters waiting for candy from passing floats or simply standing with family in front of grills smelling of seared burgers and hot dogs, we celebrate. We celebrate and remember the formation of a…

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Obituaries

Robert Traglia

CHICAGO — Robert A. Traglia passed away peacefully on August 9, 2026, at the age of 97, at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Chicago. Bob was born on February 27, 1929, in Saginaw, MI, to Anton Traglia and Desolina Balagna Traglia. At the age of 7, the family moved to Houghton, MI,…