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Election Education for Everyday People HOUGHTON — Ever wonder how elections are run and votes are counted? Come find out! Former East Lansing City Clerk Marie Wicks will present Election Education for Everyday People, 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, at the Michigan Tech Van Pelt Library, in the East Reading Room. Wicks will describe how voter registration and the counting of ballots happens in Michigan, and how local voting precincts work to ensure that voting is secure and accurate. According to a press release, this factual, non-partisan presentation will share how state elections are ...

One attack, Many Americas

NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United ...

9/11: Students perspective

HOUGHTON — 25 years ago today, a total of four U.S. airliners were hijacked in a large-scale act of terror. The largest incident was at the Word Trade Center in New York City where two planes struck the two largest buildings in New York and killed 2,753 people in the deadliest terrorist ...

Retiring old tires

HOUGHTON — Superior Watershed Partnership is giving residents in Houghton County's Adams, Portage and Chassell Townships the opporunity to recycle old automobile tires. On Saturday, residents of those three townships can bring up to 10 tires per household to 20251 B. F. Gundlach Rd next to ...

Cops and Coffee

HOUGHTON – Houghton County Sheriff Josh Saaranen will hold weekly meetings throughout the month of September. The informal meetings are scheduled for every Thursday in September at 2 p.m., and an additional meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, September 22. All meetings will take place at ...

‘What do we need to do better?’

HOUGHTON — During her visit to Houghton Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, met with regional leaders at the MTEC SmartZone as part of a weeklong listening tour across the Upper Peninsula. "I’m literally asking, ‘What do we need to be doing better?'" Slotkin told the Daily ...