CALUMET TOWNSHIP — In honor of the 2024 National VFW Day of Service, VFW Post 3900 announced it was leading a community effort to clean up the Veterans Honor Roll in Copper City on Saturday, May 11, in preparation for Memorial Day. By Saturday morning, however, the cleanup was complete, with ...
While the American Civil War has been relegated to some chapter in American history, that it ended some 159 years ago somehow places the conflict out of contemporary context. Yet, while the war raged, from April 1861 to April 1865, Michigan’s firmly pro-Union legislature ensured that each of ...
A house bill that introduced in February 2024 that would name a section of M-26 in Houghton County as the Private Wesley Karna Memorial Highway passed with unanimous support on Wednesday, according to a release from State Rep. Greg Markkanen’s office. On September 24, 1944, Adams Township ...
HANCOCK — Jim Kurtti remembers years ago, standing outside one Midsummer evening, etching in his mind all of the sights and sounds of the dance and celebration that was taking place in his rural Upper Michigan hometown, Bruce Crossing. Though he was still young at the time, he suspected this ...
HANCOCK — Two former Finlandia University landmarks are being put to use in a way that will preserve public access. Naturally Michigan Properties purchased Old Main and the Chapel of St. Matthew earlier this year. Members of the public will get to see both of the buildings Sunday during a ...
While tensions between labor and management continued to heat up in the first decade of the 20th century, eastern and southern Europeans, particularly the Finns, Italians and Croatians, were most often targeted as instigators. But, not every immigrant who came to the Lake Superior copper region ...