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Food pantry will return to Ontonagon on April 3

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 ...

Go where the winter is

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 ...

Plea hearing set in Holiday case

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 ...

One dead in Mohawk fire

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 ...

Calling for heads-up in Torch Lake

HUBBELL — The relocation of a seaplane business to Hubbell drew criticism from residents at Wednesday’s Torch Lake Township meeting, who said they were caught off-guard by the news. Isle Royale Seaplanes recently announced its new location on the Hubbell waterfront, which will begin ...

Public invited to free event focused on human trafficking

SOUTH RANGE — The Range Lions Club with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Range Lounge and the U.P. Human Trafficking Task Force are hosting a free public event to bring the community together to learn more about human trafficking and how we as a community can fight against it here in the Upper ...