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Porcupine Music Festival powers through rain

PORCUPINE MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS STATE PARK — Whether on the hill, inside the chalet, or inside the busking barn, people could find their community at the 17th annual Porcupine Mountains Music Festival. The two-day festival brings 23 acts to the ski hill and indoor chalet stages, spanning a ...

Goal: Secure funds for addition

By GARRETT NEESE gneese@mininggazette.com HOUGHTON — Houghton will seek a grant for improvements at Dee Stadium. The city council approved providing a match of up to $150,000 in cash or in-kind services for a Michigan Community Center grant. The grant could provide as much as $2.5 ...

Square Park pavilion dedicated; Eagle River resident recognized

For the Mining Gazette Houghton Township dedicated its newly improved Square Park pavilion during a ceremony Sunday in Eagle River. Former township Supervisor Melvin Jones read a proclamation to dedicate the pavilion and to thank Eagle River resident Dan Steck and his extended family for ...

Pasty.net provides tower hazard update

EAGLE RIVER — In a Monday afternoon email from Pasty.net, General Manager Charlie Hopper responded to an article that was published in the August 18, 2023 edition of the Daily Mining Gazette. “The hazard you referenced in the August 18 story was removed that morning (August 18),” Hopper ...

Framed by Kathy bids tearful goodbye to her customers

HOUGHTON — Most people you think of who are approaching retirement, start counting the days a couple of years before they actually leave the workforce. Most — but not all. Kathy Archambeau, who for the past 27 years has owned and operated Framed by Kathy, on Shelden Street, is closing ...

$1.75M awarded to housing programs

HANCOCK — Michigan State Housing Development Authority officials presented local agencies with checks and got their thoughts on what more the state can do at a meeting Tuesday morning. Western Upper Peninsula Planning Development Region, BHK-Community Action Agency and Copper Country ...