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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 ...

Heikinpäivä celebrates Finnish American heritage

HANCOCK — Hancock’s annual mid-winter celebration reaches its peak Saturday with a parade, games, markets, dancing and other activities. Since 1999, the annual Heikinpäivä celebration has marked the point where “the bear rolls over in his den.” The bear itself can be seen walking ...

KFRC launches program aimed at fathers

HOUGHTON — The Keweenaw Family Resource Center is launching a 12-week Fatherhood workshop for fathers and father figures that will give fathers and father figures the parenting, relationship and communication skills, as well as support they need to be involved, responsible and committed ...

Copper Country Women’s March held in Houghton

HOUGHTON — Around 25 demonstrators marched across the Portage Lake Lift Bridge in support of reproductive choice and other rights at the Copper Country Women’s March. The march and others like it around the country take place in conjunction with the National Women’s March, first ...

Keweenaw Point Acquisition not complete — yet

Amid public confusion and rumors that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has purchased 10,000 acres of land in eastern Keweenaw County, owned by The Nature Conservancy in Michigan within the Keweenaw Heartlands roughly 32,000 acres, TNC says the acquisition, although in progress, has ...