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Giving Tuesday accepting donations

HANCOCK — It’s Michael Babcock’s favorite time of the year, even if the people around him get a little annoyed. Babcock, director of marketing and donor relations for Copper Shores Community Health Foundation, gets a push notification every time a new donation comes in for Giving ...

Hill gets effective evaluation from H-PT board

HOUGHTON — Houghton-Portage Township Schools Superintendent Anders Hill received an “overwhelmingly positive” evaluation from the district board at Monday’s monthly meeting.  The board gave Hill a rating of effective. The rating is the highest of three available under a revamped ...

Houghton student suspended for alleged threat

HOUGHTON — A Houghton High School student was suspended through the end of the year at a special meeting earlier this month after allegedly threatening school safety.  Speaking after Monday’s regular meeting, Houghton-Portage Township Schools Superintendent Anders Hill did not specify the nature of the threat. On Nov. 7, the board met to consider disciplinary action for the student. At the request of the student’s parent, the board went into closed session to discuss the issue.  “For student discipline purposes, we have to make a decision in open session,” Hill said. ...

L’Anse Area Schools Board approves baseball co-op, audit

L’ANSE — The L’Anse Area Schools Board of Education held its monthly meeting on Monday evening and approved a variety of motions. The board approved the motion for the baseball co-op between L’Anse Area Schools and Baraga Area Schools for the Spring of 2025. The board then went on ...

Laurium man pleads not guilty to Jan. 6 charges

WASHINGTON — The Laurium man accused of participating in the Jan. 6 riot entered a not guilty plea to four misdemeanor charges at his arraignment in federal court Tuesday.  Adam Mancuso participated in a hearing via zoom before Judge Emmet Sullivan in District of Columbia District Court.  Mancuso faces the four misdemeanor charges facing most Jan. 6 defendants: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business or official functions, disorderly conduct in a Capitol ...

Mind Trekkers hold STEM Open House

HOUGHTON — At the Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw Saturday, children built stable bridges, watched chemical reactions unfold and turned fruit into music. It happened at the Mind Trekkers’ STEM Open House, where the Michigan Technological University group taught children about science, ...