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Living the dream

SOUTH RANGE — The Village of South Range is becoming more of an outdoor destination with continued construction of Backcountry Village, a 300 acre power sports resort featuring lodging, day parking, an RV park, off road trails and more. Backcountry Village, located off of Old M—26 has ...

Buffalo Reef dredging set to resume

TRAVERSE BAY — Dredging crews will return to the Grand Traverse Harbor in Houghton County this summer as efforts continue to save Buffalo Reef from being covered by stamp sand mining waste. Over the past roughly 100 years, historic copper mine tailings from the Wolverine and Mohawk mines – ...

Northern picks president

MARQUETTE — In a unanimous decision by the Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees Thursday, Chris Olson, has been named as president of NMU, He is set to start in the position Jan. 1. BOT Vice Chair Melissa Holmquist was the person who brought first the motion and was the first to ...

Skating at Gipp temporarily on ice

LAURIUM – The new ice generating system at the Gipp Arena is complete and ready to be started up, said Village Manager Ian Lewis, but will not be used until November, due to warmer than average temperatures extending through the early part of October. “Because of the weather, we’ve ...

Socializing at Wads

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University’s redesign of the Wadsworth Hall dining hall, now named the Social House at Wadsworth Hall, was showcased Wednesday afternoon during an open house. Visitors and university personnel could tour the space and sample some of the food and beverages ...

Healthcare for All

HANCOCK — State Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) visited the Orpheum Theater in Hancock Wednesday evening to participate in the Healthcare for All Town hall regarding her proposed bill HB 4407, or the MiCare bill. Rheingans came to Hancock by invitation from Michigan United’s Keweenaw ...