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MacInnes Student Ice Arena will be closed for summer

HOUGHTON — The home of the Michigan Tech Huskies, the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena, will be closed this spring and summer for overdue facility maintenance. The renovation project will begin after spring commencement and will be completed in mid-August. During the closure, crews will be replacing the air handling units, which are original to the construction of the building in 1970. The summer closure affects all activities in the ice arena, including hockey camp, figure skating camp, and ice rentals. The university plans to have normal activities resume in Summer 2025. The ...

‘A real win’ against hate

MARQUETTE — After a little more than two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found a former Michigan Technological University student guilty on two counts related to anti-Semitic vandalism at Temple Jacob in Hancock. Nathan Weeden, 23, sprayed swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols on ...

Prosecution, defense rest in graffiti trial

MARQUETTE — The case of a Hancock man charged with spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple Jacob in Hancock will head to the jury Thursday. The prosecution and defense both rested their cases in the trial of Nathan Weeden, which concluded its third day Wednesday in U.S. District Court in ...

UP communities benefiting from Rural Readiness

Several communities across the state, including many in the western Upper Peninsula, have received grants through Michigan’s Rural Readiness Program. The competitive, reimbursement grants can total as much as $50,000. With reimbursement grants, recipients receive the funds after they have incurred the costs for which the grant was awarded. According to the state Office of Rural Development, rural communities and tax-exempt organizations serving rural communities are eligible to apply for grant funds designed to support collaborative planning and capacity building initiatives that ...

CC Recycling Initiative offers clarity on glass management

Lately, there has been discussion about glass recycling which seems to have led to some confusion. Let’s attempt to clarify the situation. Glass is currently accepted in both Hancock and Houghton curbside recycling and at the Houghton County Transfer Station on Wednesdays. Waste Management hauls the recycling to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Marquette, where the recycling is sorted. At the end of the sorting process, the glass, broken and contaminated with other materials, is currently being landfilled and is not recycled. Unlike other recycled materials, the markets for ...

Testimony heard in Temple Jacob vandalism trial

MARQUETTE — The federal trial of a Hancock man accused of spraypainting anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple Jacob continued Tuesday with witnesses including agents who had interviewed him and a former member of the same white supremacist group who’d been part of the discussions before defacing ...