The Daily Mining Gazette's editorial department is now under the guidance of a new interim managing editor, local and sports editor David “Daver” Karnosky. “I admit, I'm a bit nervous,” Karnosky said. He said that doing the best job he can is important to him. “We have a ...
HANCOCK — The Hancock School Board met in special session at noon Friday. Among the agenda items was a discussion on what qualifications they are looking for in a superintendent, along with what skill sets would be of value to the office, the school, and the district as a whole. While one ...
HOUGHTON — If a fuel tanker overturns in a multi-vehicle crash near Michigan Technological University, Tech employees and emergency responders will know what to do. Because they have already done it. Tech hosted a disaster drill on campus Thursday night, acting out a scenario where a ...
HOUGHTON — Department of Natural Resources staff gave updates on work being done to restore trail access in the Houghton area at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. The goal is to restore trails to the condition they were in prior to last June’s floods, said Ron Yesney, DNR Upper ...
Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Firefighters put out a chimney fire at a garage on Baulman Road in Torch Lake Township Wednesday afternoon. The fire, which was put out in about 10 minutes, did minor damage to the building, said Brad Banfield, first assistant with the Dollar Bay Fire Department.
HOUGHTON — About 1,000 customers lost power in the Houghton area after an equipment malfunction Thursday night. The outage occurred at 5:01 p.m., knocking out power to 1,015 customers in the Houghton area, said Brett French, Upper Peninsula Power Co. vice president of business development ...
L’ANSE TOWNSHIP — Voters defeated a L’Anse Township referendum to amend its zoning ordinance to allow wind energy projects on commercial forest land. The no vote garnered 315 residents (55 percent), while only 257 (45 percent) voted in favor of the amendment. The no vote overturns a ...
ere enrolled in the Copper Country Intermediate School District’s career and technical education courses. Next year’s enrollment is projected at 323. “We obviously built what was needed, and kids are taking advantage of it,” CCISD superintendent George Stockero said. Stockero and ...
L’ANSE TOWNSHIP — The May ballot was mostly light in the Copper Country, but several municipalities did have items on the ballot. L’Anse Township was voting on a referendum for a zoning ordinance that would allow zoning for wind energy projects in forest areas. Renewable Energy ...
HOUGHTON — Elementary school students from the Keweenaw cast their lures into the waters off the Great Lakes Research Center Tuesday afternoon in search of fish. While the fishing part was unsuccessful in a narrow sense, they did reel in new knowledge about fish, their place in the ...
At the Flower Shop, flower arrangement is an artform, not a sideline or a department in a store. Flowers are what Missy Goulette at the Flower Shop on Quincy Street has had a love for her entire life. It is her degree in fine arts with an intuitive yet trained eye in color theory, design, ...
Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Xueling Li receives her doctoral hood during a hooding ceremony at Michigan Technological University on Saturday, signifying a Doctor of Philosophy degree in statistics. A total of 61 students received Ph.D.s at the 2019 spring commencement.
HOUGHTON — Houghton’s water and sewer rates could be going up for the first time since 2012. City manager Eric Waara outlined the proposed rate hikes during a city budget meeting Wednesday. The combined percentage increase is about 9.6 percent. In sewer, the proposed increase will be ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University was a rigorous environment, graduating students said Saturday. But they would do it all over again. One of more than 1,000 students who walked across the stage during Saturday’s ceremony was student commencement speaker Monica Brechting of ...
HOUGHTON — Col. Gregory Johnson is not a graduate of Michigan Technological University, but visiting the campus last fall, the fighter pilot and astronaut felt an immediate kinship. Johnson, this year’s spring commencement speaker, came to Tech as part of his consulting work in the ...
HANCOCK — Finlandia University celebrated the graduation of 88 students at Sunday’s spring commencement. The student speaker was marketing major Haley Makela of Atlantic Mine. She was heavily involved in campus activity during her four years. She served as vice president of the Student ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University’s Board approved three new degree programs at its quarterly meeting Friday. It also passed resolutions in support of dissolving the School of Technology and creating the new College of Computing. “This will be the first college of its ...
HOUGHTON — Jeff Hauswirth, an Iraq War veteran, is using music to process his experiences there. Hauswirth’s EP, “Forever 29,” was released April 26. The six-song EP is more than a decade in the making. Two of the songs date back to 2006, when Hauswirth, then a hospital corpsman ...
HOUGHTON — While there are no statewide issues to consider at the polls, Tuesday’s May 7 election is the first since a constitutional voting rights amendment was passed by 67 percent of Michigan voters in November. Michigan voters approved a proposal on Nov. 6, 2018, that provided a ...
Last week, we talked briefly about the process of mineral concentrating, beginning at the stamp mill. This morning, while we enjoy our coffee, we will back up a bit, and go into more detail, starting in the mine. In drilling and blasting underground, the copper-bearing rock was blown out and ...