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Houghton County offers Rheault administrator position

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HOUGHTON — After candidate interviews for the Houghton County administrator position Wednesday morning, the county board voted to offer the job to county Finance Director Chelsea Rheault and direct the personnel committee to begin working on terms for a contract.  If Rheault accepts the ...

Houghton rises early for Dunkin’

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HOUGHTON — Residents woke up bright and early on Tuesday morning to order coffee and donuts from Houghton’s new Dunkin’ and Baskin Robbins on the hill at 501 Memorial Drive. The store opened its doors to the public at 5 a.m. and despite the early hour, Dunkin’s first line nearly ...

Comet sighting

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Photo courtesy of Robert Nemiroff This image of the Tsuchinshan Comet was taken Tuesday at 8:38 p.m. The comet was hard to find at first with the naked eye, but Robert found it with his iPhone to take the picture.

A top-rated education locally

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HOUGHTON — A fixture on U.S. News & World Reports’ annual list of top schools, Houghton High School recently received another honor. The school ranked 364th in the magazine’s list of the top 500 high schools in the country for science, technology, engineering and math.  Schools ...

Superior Wind Symphony presents Modern

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HOUGHTON — Jana Meckler, the Interim conductor of Michigan Tech’s Superior Wind Symphony, in addition to director of bands at Hancock Public Schools, announced that on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rozsa Center on the campus of Michigan Tech, the Superior Wind Symphony will ...

Breakwater FCU part of International Credit Union Week

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HOUGHTON — October 15-26 is designated as International Credit Union Week. On Thursday, Oct. 17, credit union members around the world will celebrate International Credit Union Day, an annual event commemorating the credit union movements impact and achievements. Here in the Copper ...