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Giving Tuesday worth taking time to donate for

For the third year, the Portage Health Foundation is raiding money for local charities through its Giving Tuesday. The program that PHF has dubbed “Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is” is one where the PHF will match up to $100,000 total in donations made to local non-profits as part of Giving Tuesday, which will take place on Dec. 3. Giving Tuesday is held annually the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and is intended to be a bit of an altruistic alternative to the big shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which officially kick off the holiday season. In our story in ...

NHL puts on great show

As parents and children lined up Thursday to welcome the National Hockey League’s Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues to the Copper Country, chants broke out, mainly from children wearing Red Wings sweaters, of “We’re waiting, we’re waiting, we’re waiting for the Wings.” While at first, the chants seemed innocuous, they were actually a precursor for what would turn into a day of fantastic memories for all those young hockey fans. While the Red Wings ran late, which makes sense given the team had played a preseason game the night before against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the ...

Hockeyville is special for everyone

Throughout this week, there will be events in the Calumet area relating to Kraft Hockeyville USA. There has not been this much buzz in the community for a hockey game since Michigan Tech hosted Bowling Green for the WCHA playoff title a couple of years ago. On Monday, the Stanley Cup was in town, along with the Gibson Cup and the MacNaughton Cup for viewing. On Tuesday, the Calumet Wolverines and Portage Lake Pioneers are playing a preseason game of their own. On Wednesday, former NHLer Jeremy Roenick and local historian Dr. Bill Sproule are going to be a part of the Red and Blue ...

O captain, my captain

Houghton Gremlins hockey coach Corey Markham will likely see his loyalties challenged locally this season as two of his former pupils, Raymond Brice and Connor Hannon, have each been named captain of their respective college hockey teams. Brice was announced as the Michigan Tech Huskies captain earlier this summer. The former walk-on, who spurned offers to play college hockey out east, has worked extemely hard every day in practice, leading his teammates to have no other option than to vote him into a leadership position this season. He will have some big shoes to fill. Being captain ...

Remembering 9/11

As the bulk of the American workforce hits middle age, many of us cannot forget the events of Sept. 11, 2001, when a group of al-Qaeda members flew two planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. They also attempted to fly another into the White House, but thanks to the brave efforts of those on Flight 93, that plane was brought down long before its intended destination. Our managing editor was born just 75 miles north of New York City. His father worked for the New York Botanical Garden before taking a job at Michigan Tech. Our ...

Know your rights when returning gifts

Did Santa bring you the ugliest gift this year? Want to try and get something better? The Better Business Bureau has tips you should know that will make you that savvy returner. Did you know that there are federal and state laws that dictate how and when you can return an item? Knowing those laws will help you navigate your in-store or online returns and determine if your return experience either fun or frustrating. In Michigan, once a consumer executes a contract or purchase agreement there is no right to cancel that contract or purchase agreement; so know before you sign on the ...