HOUGHTON — The Houghton Zoning Board of Appeals approved a rear-yard variance for a home where constructors had not filed an updated permit request at its meeting Wednesday night preceding the regular Houghton City Council meeting. The 10-foot, 4-inch variance at 205 W. Douglass Ave. ...
HOUGHTON — The purchase of a new app to let Houghton County residents look up which inmates are in the county jail is on hold while the county board seeks more answers about it from the sheriff’s department. The board voted 3-2 Tuesday afternoon against a package from OCV including ...
Editors note: This is the second in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. For many people, an electric fireplace conjures thoughts of quiet winter nights with a cup of hot tea while enjoying the projected flames and the electric heat of the unit. For others, particularly in low-income families, winter and heat only represent an elevated risk of food insecurity while deciding to pay higher utility bills or grocery bills. A 2006 study by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Economic Research Service (ERS) found ...
Charles Lester Knuckles, Jr., 31, of Roseville, Michigan, was sentenced to 132 months (11 years) in federal prison for leading a conspiracy that trafficked over 500 grams of methamphetamine from Detroit to Houghton and Mackinac counties in December 2022 and January 2023. In a Nov. 13 release from U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten, Totten said Knuckles was running a drug pipeline trafficking methamphetamine from the Detroit area to northern Michigan. The Upper Peninsula Substances Enforcement Team (UPSET) and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
HOUGHTON — A number of write-in candidates in the Copper Country filed by the Oct. 25 deadline to be added to the November ballot. Candidates ran in Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties; none had filed in Baraga. Houghton County At the county level, Teresa Karinemi filed to run against incumbent Jennifer Kelly for clerk and register of deeds. On the Hancock City Council, Dean Woodbeck filed as the sole candidate running in Ward II, where he will fill the position currently held by Richard Freeman, who did not seek re-election. On the Laurium Village Council, Andrew ...
SOUTH RANGE — The South Range Fourth of July Committee has announced its Second Annual Big Bucks Hunters Ball, Michael Renier, committee president said. The event is from 7-11 p.m., Saturday, November 9, at VWF hall, on South Baltic Avenue, in South Range. Slick Nickel, who performed at ...
