CALUMET — A scholarly organization called the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) is conducting its 2024 conference in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Sarah Fayen Scarlett, associate professor of History in the Social Sciences Department, at Michigan Technological University, is the chair of the ...
L’ANSE — The L’Anse Village Council approved the budget and millage rates for the coming year Monday night. General fund expenditures for the coming year are $1,548,589, versus revenues of $1,675,683. Projects for the year will include finishing up work connected to a Department of ...
BARAGA — The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community received 760 acres of Baraga County forestland from The Nature Conservancy at a ceremony Wednesday. The land is within the boundaries established in the 1842 treaty that created the reservation. TNC purchased the land in 2021 from a local owner. The deed was officially signed over during the KBIC Tribal Council meeting Wednesday. KBIC is assuming ownership of land adjacent to TNC’s 9,760-acre Slate River Forest Reserve, which the conservation organization also purchased in 2021. The area, managed by TNC as a working forest, is ...
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) and Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel are warning Michiganders to be aware of fake social media accounts and web pages asking for information that could be used for identity theft or financial gain. In a press release on June ...
L’ANSE — A decision on who will pave the parking lot of the Baraga County Sheriff’s Department and jail will wait while county commissioners get more information. Two companies submitted bids for the project. The Payne & Dolan bid came in at $79,200, while Bacco Construction’s was ...
HOUGHTON — The need to respond to an act of vandalism brought people to the front lawn of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Houghton Sunday morning. But Pastor Sarah Semmler Smith was clear: It was a celebration. “This is a moment where we are relearning what our mission is to the ...
