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Jazz Man

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HOUGHTON — The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts welcomed jazz multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Braxton Cook backstage last weekend for the Don Keranen Jazz Festival. He played with Michigan Technological University student jazz groups including R&D Jazz Band and Jazz Lab Band. ...

Won’t stop till she gets enough

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This article is reprinted from The Conversation an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. LOS ANGELES — When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he left everything he owned to a family trust – an estate planning technique for giving away ...

Delta Co. Man facing drugs and gun charges

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Michigan State Police report that a 28-year-old man from Rapid River was arrested Sunday on multiple felony offenses. The incident netted a significant number of firearms and drugs, police said. On Sunday, a trooper from the state police post in Gladstone, while on patrol on LL Road in ...

Drug bust in Ironwood

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A narcotics investigation that was years in the making culminated in three arrests Saturday in Ironwood. According to a release from the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team (GIANT) Investigators obtained information over the course of several years involving an address in the City of Ironwood ...

Simply Awesome!

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HOUGHTON — WMTU 91.9 FM is hosting its annual Keweenawesomefest on Friday starting at 6 p.m. in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. The live music event highlights some of the Keweenaw’s own home-grown bands. Keweenawesomefest is a live-music event that caters to both students at ...

The next step

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HOUGHTON — The Houghton County Jail Committee is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. on Monday,in the Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Houghton County Courthouse. The primary of objectives of the committee are to determine why voters turned down the August 2025 millage proposal, and to come ...