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The Wonders of the World

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University's International Programs and Services invites the greater Upper Peninsula community to the 37th annual Festival of Nations and Multicultural Food Festival. The renamed event takes place beginning at noon Saturday. Formerly known as the Parade of ...

New name ... same mission

HOUGHTON — Anyone driving thru Townsend Drive and College Avenue within the last month has seen different nation’s flags hoisted on the light poles. Those flags indicate a Michigan Tech tradition — the 37th Festival of Nations and Multicultural Food Festival (nee Parade of Nations) kicks ...

Calumet standoff ends peacefully

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — An armed standoff lasting several hours Tuesday ended with one person taken into custody. On Wednesday, 40-year-old Andrey Vladimirovich Petrov, appeared in Houghton County 97th District Court. Petrov is charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting/obstructing. He ...

To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm an active 76-year-old retired accountant who likely spent too many hours at a computer. Now I'm paying for it with a painful condition. My general physician says that I have a pinched or compressed ulnar nerve, which likely starts in the neck shoulder area but shoots pain ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: I have two sisters, and one of them, "Joanie," tragically passed away from cancer last year. It's obviously been hard, but what's making it harder is my remaining sister. She has always been competitive. And she has somehow turned even grief into a competition. For example, a few ...

Standoff in Calumet

CALUMET — An armed standoff in Calumet Tuesday morning ended with one subject taken into custody with no apparent injuries. Details of the hours-long confrontation between an apparently armed suspect and numerous law enforcement officers are still awaiting a formal press release from the ...