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Education

Open House at Wads Dining Hall

HOUGHTON - The dining hall in Wadsworth Hall at Michigan Technological University has a new look. The dining hall, called The Social House at Wadsworth Hall, was renovated this past summer and now offers an expanded salad bar selection, a variety of seating areas for conversations, new bold ...

Building Blocks

HANCOCK — Building Blocks: Infant Feeding Fundamentals is back on Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock. Copper Shores Community Health Foundation and UP Health System - Portage invite parents, grandparents, day care providers and ...

The waiting is the hardest part

HANCOCK – The Michigan legislature’s passage of the 2025-2026 state budget Friday included a $21.3 billion School Aid Budget, affecting the state’s 537 school districts, 285 public school academies, along with 56 intermediate school districts, including the Copper Country Intermediate ...

The next phase

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Presidential Search Advisory Committee (PSAC) has announced four candidates will visit campus between Sept. 29 and Oct. 10. Each candidate will engage with a wide variety of stakeholder groups during their two-day campus visit. Names and resumes of ...

Michigan Education Savings Program Celebrates 25th Anniversary

LANSING — The Michigan Education Savings Program (MESP), the state’s tax-advantaged 529 college savings plan managed by TIAA, celebrated its 25th anniversary on Friday with a $25,529 donation to the Fostering Futures Scholarship Trust Fund in Detroit. The donation, which matched ...

NMU Rural Health Center marks five years

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Center for Rural Health recently marked its five-year anniversary and also hosted its first U.P. Future Health Leaders summer camp for 36 students who are now freshmen or sophomores at high schools throughout the Upper Peninsula. The NMU Center ...