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Calling out to contractors

HOUGHTON – The Houghton County Jail Committee’s Industry Day is Wednesday, July 15, at the Franklin Township Fire hall, from 5-7 p.m. Industry Day’s purpose is to provide interested contractors and the public an opportunity to offer input to the committee and county board members on the need for a new county jail. The meeting will serve as an initiative to gather ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) cost estimates from local construction and design-build firms, along with interested local contractors and architectural firms, to collaborate on a proposed county jail facility, which will ...

Calling out to contractors

HOUGHTON — The Houghton County Jail Committee will host Industry Day from 5 - 7 p.m. today at the Franklin Township Fire hall. The purpose of Industry Day is to provide interested contractors as well as the public an opportunity to offer input to the committee and county board members on ...

Staying away

HANCOCK — A parasitic illness that has infected more than 3,300 Michigan residents is making its way through county after county in the Lower Peninsula. Cyclosporiasis is a food and waterborne parasite which attaches to the small intestine and causes diarrhea. Western U.P. Health Department ...

Man charged in Eastern UP crash

BAY MILLS TOWNSHIP — A Lower Michigan man is in custody following a fatal two-vehicle crash in Bay Mills Township. According to a Michigan State Police press release, shortly before 11 a.m. Monday, a trooper from the Sault Ste. Marie Post responded to a report of a two-vehicle head-on ...

Something fishy!

HOUGHTON — According to Mary Poppins, "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." Meaning that under the right circumstances, a really important message can be presented "in a most delightful way." That certainly seemed to be the case Friday at the downtown Houghton Pier at the Mi ...

Strawberry Royalty

CHASSELL – Dusty Lippold was crowned Strawberry Queen before a packed crowd at the Chassell Strawberry Festival Friday evening. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Lippold is a graduate of Chassell High School, where she was an honors student and an active member of the National Honor ...