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MTU cadet picked for overseas monument fellowship

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Battle Monuments Commission announced the selection of the 2024 ABMC Fellows. The ABMC International Fellowship was established in 2022 to provide participants the opportunity to contribute and bring awareness to the ABMC mission of preserving America’s ...

Free class offers insight to end-of-life information

Press release As a Hospice Chaplain, Kathleen Carlton Johnson, Ph.D., has experienced many different human beings. She has had the privilege to be with them on their final journey. Often, she have been asked questions about dying, suffering, and what it feels like to die. Is there eternal life ...

On path to improvement

HOUGHTON — Park improvements, parking deck repairs and lower insurance premiums were part of the Houghton City Council’s second budget hearing Wednesday. In the public improvement fund, City Manager Eric Waara is proposing putting the city’s remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds ...

Gilchrist honors local historic preservation project

LANSING, Mich. — Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II awarded four Michigan preservation projects for the Governor’s Awards for Historic Preservation during a ceremony hosted by the State Historic Preservation Office on Thursday. Communities represented by the projects include the Keweenaw ...

Not so sweet: Laurium business’ opening delayed by act of vandalism

LAURIUM — Fitzgerald’s Restaurant in Eagle River announced on its Facebook page that it has begun a campaign to going to collect donations in support of a business owner whose business was vandalized on April 29 or 30, when a brick was thrown through a front window. Erin Turner, who has ...

Gremlins re-unite!

The Houghton High School Alumni Association officers and organizing committee is excited for the return of the in-person all-class reunion this summer and proudly announces registration is open for the 2024 festivities, to be held July 18-19 in Houghton. All graduates of Houghton High School ...