HANCOCK — Hancock School Board was treated to a demonstration of Barkell Elementary VEX Robot at the regular January meeting Monday evening. Genevieve Nordmark, Barkell’s elementary STEM teacher and VEX IQ Robotics coach, told the board that Barkell hosted its first-ever VEX Robotics ...

Parents and taxpayers who attend school board meetings typically see a one-hour meeting at which board members follow an agenda. Typically, agenda items include routine matters: adopt the agenda, approve the minutes of the previous month’s meeting and approve checks written during the ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers in February as part of a new repayment plan that’s taking effect nearly six months ahead of schedule. Loan forgiveness was originally set to begin in July under the new SAVE repayment plan, but ...

Press release MARQUETTE – The Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes played the Rudyard Bulldogs on Jan. 13 in this initial round of High School Bowl and won by a score of 200-170. Thirty-eight schools from the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin field teams for WNMU-TV’s High School Bowl ...

The state of Michigan has designated January as School Board Recognition Month. It has been for 35 years even though many Michigan residents may not be aware of it. The Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB) had been at the forefront of that for nearly four decades. As one of the ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton-Portage Township Schools Superintendent Anders Hill updated the board on new projects under the district’s strategic plan at Monday’s meeting. Hill and the district’s administrative team met in December to plot out year two initiatives. One initiative is to ...