The body of a missing 80-year-old Painesdale, Adams Township, man was found Monday in Baraga County, according to the Houghton County Sheriff's Office. Authorities were seeking the public’s assistance in locating Francis Destrampe, who was last seen around midnight Saturday into Sunday ...
HOUGHTON — Police officers and the Houghton Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 932 Dodge St. early Friday morning. According to a statement from the police department, the call was received at about 1:45 a.m. Upon arrival at the scene, Houghton Fire Department crews began ...
ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP — The state of Michigan Department of Treasury on Nov. 28 informed Allouez Township officials that the state will begin withholding revenue sharing funds to the township. The reason for the action, as stated in the letter, is because the township has not yet submitted its ...
HOUGHTON — Changes to Michigan’s solid waste statute were made at the end of December 2022. Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy formed a Materials Management Planning Work group (MMP Work group) that has been meeting for about a year. EGLE plans to utilize this ...
HOUGHTON — The Houghton County Board on Tuesday approved funding for one year to initiate a childcare program that has been discussed for several months. At the regular December Board meeting on Tuesday, Iola Brubaker, head of the Copper Country Great Start Collaborative, gave a presentation on a proposal that focuses on in-home childcare programs. The proposal, she said, follows a model used in Marquette County last year that resulted in 24 childcare slots in that county in the program’s first round of its proposal. Brubaker said that while building off the lessons learned from ...
CALUMET — The State Historic Preservation Office has authorized the village to begin working with a local contractor to move ahead with installing a new heating system in the Village Hall building, which includes the Calumet Theatre. “The contractor was in here two weeks ago to measure ...
