HANCOCK — The Keweenaw Community Foundation’s Youth Advisory Council began the process of reviewing Kellogg Youth Endowment Fund’s Spring 2024 scholarship and grant applications during its March meeting Wednesday. The deadline for nonprofit organizations to submit applications was March ...
LAKE LINDEN — Students in Melanie Niewenhuis’s kindergarten class at Lake Linden-Hubbell Elementary wore “crazy socks” Thursday to help raise awareness of Down syndrome. Student Peyton Richmond has Down syndrome; his mother, who suggested the activity, spoke to the children earlier ...
Whether it will be stories passed down from generation to generation, or an updated version of the old song, “North to Alaska,” fellow Copper Country snowmobile groomers will be talking about the local groomer that left the Western Upper Peninsula to go to Alaska. That groomer operator ...
L’ANSE — The Illinois man charged with being the driver in a fatal crash at the Holiday gas station in L’Anse in November 2022 is scheduled for a plea hearing in Baraga County Circuit Court Tuesday. Dawaun Johnson, 24, of Highland Park, Illinois, had appealed a circuit court ruling on the admissability of prosecution evidence to the state Court of Appeals. Last week, the appeals court ruled against Johnson, denying one application for lack of merit and another one for not persuading the court of the need for immediate review. Johnson was working for the trucking company CR ...
A Feeding America West Michigan mobile food pantry is coming back to Ontonagon on April 3. Mobile food pantries will be held at Ontonagon Village Fire Hall at 315 River St, Ontonagon. Each visit from the mobile food pantry will provide a variety of foods, including fresh produce and dairy items, to approximately 300 families on a first-come, first-served basis. The mobile food pantry is funded by Copper Shores Community Health Foundation in partnership with the Ontonagon Area School and the Ontonagon Volunteer Fire Department. Feeding America West Michigan is delivering the food with a ...
ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP — An early Thursday morning structure fire on Sixth Street in Mohawk Location claimed the life of one person, according to Keweenaw County Sheriff Curt Pennala. At approximately 2 a.m. Thursday, the Allouez Township Volunteer Fire Department was called to the structure ...
