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 ...
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 ...
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 or not? Others want to know what happens in the dying process. All these questions she tries to answer to the best of her ability. However, there has been a need for this kind of information in our community, so the public will have the opportunity through Final Journey classes to inform ...
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 ...
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 and their guests are invited to attend. Activities include; flag raising ceremony, BBQ-Pasty picnic at the Ray Kestner Waterfront Park, alumni breakfast with the Superintendent, memorial Roll Call tribute, tour of the Keweenaw Brewery plant in South Range, along with an evening mixer and buffet ...
With farmers market season starting in June 2024, From the Ground Farmers Market Collective announces its participation in the Double Up Food Bucks program, administered by Fair Food Network, states a Tuesday release. FTGFMC manages the summer and early fall outdoor markets located in Houghton, Hancock and Calumet. “Our farmers here in the Keweenaw and the surrounding communities grow such beautiful, healthy, delicious seasonal produce,” Amanda Makela, FTGFMC’s new co-manager said in the release. “They know the needs of their communities, and it’s our duty to help make sure ...
