ALLOUEZ, Mich.— The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is continuing toward the purchase of 10,000 acres of land on Keweenaw Point that is currently owned by The Nature Conservancy in Michigan, according to a DNR official. Patrick Mohney, Senior Lands Program Manager – DNR Office ...
L’ANSE — The Baraga County Sheriff’s Office is getting new tasers and an updated records management system. At Monday’s Baraga County board meeting, commissioners approved the purchase of a new records system and also voted to clarify where the funding will come from for taser ...
CALUMET — The Calumet is looking ahead to the summer season with a video theater tour that is currently in the planning phase. Theatre Directory of Operations Nathan Jones said the program will consist of a brochure that can be purchased at the box office. In the brochure will be a series of assigned numbers for each tour station throughout the theater and the ballroom. Each station will have a QR code that people can click on their smartphones, which will take them to a narrated Youtube video explaining that area of the tour. Jones said the plan is to use the existing monologue ...
ESCANABA — Thirty-eight FIRST Robotics teams from across the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula converged in Escanaba last weekend. After nine weeks of planning, drafting, building and programming, the teams came prepared to compete in this year’s game: Crescendo. The ...
Gogebic Community College hosted the annual Spring High School Quiz Bowl Invitational Tournament on Friday, March 8, 2024. Eighteen teams from eight schools were represented at the tournament including: Bessemer, Dollar Bay, Houghton, Hurley, Ironwood, Jeffers, Watersmeet and West Iron County. The teams were divided into two divisions, junior varsity and varsity. Houghton I and West Iron County I were victorious in the semi-final round with Houghton I taking home the championship trophy by a score of 445-275. West Iron County received the runner-up trophy. Houghton I team members ...
HOUGHTON — A hearing that had been scheduled for this week in the case of a suspect in a November murder in Houghton has been removed from the calendar. Evan Dixon, 60, is now scheduled for a review hearing in 97th District Court on April 26. Dixon allegedly fatally shot Theron Duncan, 53, of Houghton at the Douglass House Saloon on Nov. 17. The motive of the shooting is unknown. He is charged with first-degree murder-premeditated, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, and felony firearms, punishable by up to two years in prison. In January, he was ordered to ...
