HANCOCK — The Copper Country’s child care needs are getting a little closer to being met. Gabby’s Guppies, which currently operates in Lake Linden, is planning to expand to a new location in Hancock at the Hancock Community Hub, in the former Hirvonen Hall building. Owner Gabby ...
HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team had, by all accounts, a very strong weekend in Duluth, Minnesota, last weekend, falling to No. 6 Minnesota-Duluth, 80-70, and then defeating No.3 Minnesota State-Moorhead, 74-70. However, coach Josh Buettner’s team does not get ...
L’ANSE — The L’Anse Village Council held its second meeting of the month on Monday. The Council received reports that the village’s Christmas lights have been put up and that the snow equipment is at the ready for the arrival of winter. The biggest news to be reported to the Council ...
HOUGHTON — Two Ohio residents are lodged in the Houghton County Jail after allegedly buying items in Houghton as part of a larger-scale operation involving purchases with stolen credit cards that has been targeting towns throughout the Midwest. On Nov. 7, the Houghton Police Department ...
HANCOCK — Meals and holidays are meant to be shared, said Carol Korpela. “To prepare a meal for one person, yourself, if you’re alone on the holiday, it can even just make that isolation and loneliness feel even worse,” said Korpela, executive director of Little Brothers - Friends ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. According to the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ERS), a food secure household means that every ...