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Education

CTE programs ready for a brand new year

HANCOCK — With the beginning of the school year, the Copper Country Intermediate School District’s (CCISD) Career and Technical Education (CTE) program instructors are ready for the year, with changes made to some programs. Among those includes the shelving of the CTE Graphic Arts and ...

A Moonwalk Lesson for All

HOUGHTON — One small step and one giant leap. This past weekend, a team from Michigan Technological University traveled to the “Great Minnesota Get Together” to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) at the Minnesota State Fair. As part of a NASA funded research ...

The search continues

LAKE LINDEN – As local school districts in the Copper Country Intermediate School District get ready to greet returning students next week, the Lake Linden-Hubbell School District is the midst of a search for the new superintendent. Former Superintendent and Middle/High School Principal ...

Welcome aboard

HANCOCK – The Hancock School District is ready for the 2025-2026 school year and welcomes back students with new faces and appearances. Mollie Threwartha is the new middle school/high school principal. She was appointed to the position at a special meeting of the Hancock School Board on July ...

A taste of what’s next

HOUGHTON — Right now thousands of students are preparing to go to high school or have already started college. But a significant number of young people will be doing both. Many high school juniors and seniors will also be matriculating in a community college or even a world-class university, ...

Study smarter, not harder

It would be convenient if every student had a photographic memory, making it a snap to recall pages of text or concepts in great detail. Photographic memory is not real, but a very small portion of the population, around 2 to 10 percent of children, has something called an eidetic memory, which ...