HANCOCK — The Kivajat Finnish Folk Dancers held the Old Time Copper Country Dance last week, featuring the Back Room Boys and the Thimbleberry Band. The dance and silent auction at the Finnish-American Heritage Center was both a chance for the Kivajat to show off their skills and a fundraiser ...
Early in 1843, Charles H. Gratiot was contracted by DeGarmo Jones, of Detroit, to explore a number of mineral leases for which he and his business associates held permits from the federal government. Gratiot arrived in the Lake Superior copper district in June, 1843, with 10 Cornish miners, ...
HANCOCK — The problem with teaching today, is the profession is practiced in a standardized, cookie-cutter manner, said Ezekiel Ohan, principal for the Hancock middle and high schools. “If you’ve got things that are already pre-formatted, people can come in and turn from being a ...
HANCOCK — Eliminated from the United States in 2000, measles is making a comeback. The vaccine is 97 percent effective for people who get two doses as recommended — once between 12 and 15 months old, and again between 4 and 6 years old. That does not prevent unvaccinated people from ...
Gwinear was the seat of an ecclesiastical parish that included the hamlets of Fraddam, Treghortha, Carnkell Green, Rewala, Relestrian, Roseworthy, and Wall. Roseworthy was once the property of the Arundels of Lanherne, who settled in the area in the 1300s, and were among the few French nobles ...
Dr. Novick’s love for mathematics had started years before he saw Steve, the young athlete who became suddenly, severely ill. Novick searched for meaning in shapes. He lived alone in a small, one-bedroom apartment next to the hospital. Novick saw the human body as matter fixed in space and ...
In 2017, the Houghton Keweenaw Communities That Care (CTC) Coalition conducted a survey with area youth in 8th,10th, and 12th grades. The information from that survey, together with public health data, showed that our 8th grade students ranked below the national average for depressive symptoms. ...
Limerick Junction was not a junction in 1829 when John Cornelius Ryan was born. It was not much of a town, either. In fact, it did not become a junction until 1845, when the Waterford and Limerick Railway laid its tracks. The railway did little to boost the town. In George Henry Basset’s ...
My graduation from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, in the early 1990s, coincided with the second wave of immigration from Russia to Israel. There was a moment in which it seemed that these immigrants were all doctors looking for a position as a resident-doctor in General ...
Fishing stories are as old as fish and people. Like many families, mine has a lot of them. Some of my favorite are of my grandfather Ed Aho. Mornings often started in a mad dash. One day Ed left in a hurry. He gunned his truck and the snowmobile sailed out of the bed. Not to be denied, he ...
There are many things that impact the health and happiness of today’s youth. Now more than ever, anxiety, ADHD, and depression are being openly discussed and better understood. As we learn more about mental health, we realize not only how important it is, but how it is intertwined with ...
HOUGHTON — To repay its customers for more than three years of support, U.P. Audiology gave the gift of hearing to three people over Christmas. From the early days of the business, they had the idea that once it found its footing, it would give hearing aids to someone in the community with ...
The immigrant miners from Ireland, particularly those from the Bunmahon area, probably made an easy transition from the mines there to those in the Lake Superior copper district. Bunmahon was a mining district on the south shore of Ireland, in County Waterford, in the province of Munster. The ...
Anyone who grew up in the mid-seventies until 1991 and went to Lake Linden-Hubbell High School knew “Mr. and Mrs. V". Mrs. VerBerkmoes was our school librarian, that to this day I credit with teaching me respect for books, libraries, and other people's privacy. She didn't have to shush us to ...
Society and technology are dynamic in that they are in constant change. And yet, the members of one society of one time period are very similar to those of another society in another time in many aspects. For example, almost every Copper Country resident knows someone who, at one time or ...
To be 18, a professional athlete, and loved—who wouldn’t envy such an existence. Unless, luck suddenly turns on you, and in an unfortunate turn of events, you fall seriously ill. At 9 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, Steve, a member of a hockey team on a training tour through several states ...
The 10th annual Alumni-Student Broomball Invitational took place last weekend as part of Michigan Technological University's (MTU) Winter Carnival. The tournament consisted of two main brackets, one of twelve alumni teams and one of six student teams. Games started at 8:30 a.m. with the final ...
HOUGHTON — It may be a little-known company on the street, but Monte Consulting was formed in 2001 by Matt Monte, whose website states that in those years, the company has developed innovative solutions that help its clients meet and exceed their business goals. “The work that we do is ...
Like nearly every other European immigrant, the German people were just sick of wars, the devastation they caused, the poverty, starvation, and disease they left in their wake, and being conscripted to fight in those wars for the goals and ambitions of some emperor or king. Like the Irish, the ...
Life coaches – not surprisingly – strive to improve the quality of life of their clients. And financial professionals essentially embrace the same mission. So, if you decide to hire a financial advisor, you should expect to receive some “coaching” as you work toward all your important ...