CALUMET — The Calumet Theatre Chandelier Society’s project to replace a large chandelier that once hung in the auditorium of the theater received a generous donation on Thursday that puts the project a giant leap closer to completion. The Keweenaw Health Foundation provided a $15,000 ...

HOUGHTON — Michigan’s first poet laureate in more than 60 years stopped at the Portage Lake District Library Friday night, reading poems and answering questions with Houghton poet M. Bartley Seigel, a past Upper Peninsula poet laureate. The Library of Michigan and Michigan Department of ...

CALUMET — The Yoop Fest is returning to the Keweenaw for its fourth straight year, this year at the historic Calumet Theatre. The event will run Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21. Friday’s line up runs from 3 p.m. to midnight and from noon to midnight on Saturday. Food and drink will ...

Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, marked the passing of one of film’s most iconic actors, James Earl Jones, who died at the age of 93. Most all of the articles I saw mentioning this news had in the title that Jones was the voice of Darth Vader. While this is true, and while he was more than willing to ...

CALUMET — After more than two years of planning and delays, the Calumet Theatre’s boiler replacement project started Monday with the order of new boiler unit. Calumet Theatre Company President Dan Jamison said that he and Marty Travathan, owner of Marty’s Heating Services, signed the ...

Labor Day has come and gone marking an unofficial end to the summer (according to the autumnal equinox, summer officially ends September 22). Students are back in school, parents are back at work, the wistful dreams of summer have ended. Did summer bring what you thought it would? In this ...