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It’s Heikinpäivä

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HANCOCK — What we now call Copper Country Finns & Friends created a new celebration in Hancock Heikinpäivä. The Finnish Theme Committee of the City of Hancock, as it was known then built the celebration on themes taken from Finnish folk saying associated with the name day for St. ...

Ironwood nurses approve contract

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IRONWOOD – Nurses at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital voted last week to ratify a new union contract, according to a release from the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA). The contract takes effect immediately and runs through July 19, 2028. The release says the agreement maintains the wage structure ...

Cold and snowy

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HOUGHTON – The severe cold weather that began Sunday evening shows little chance of ending soon, according to Meteorologist Daniel Jablonski with National Weather Service Marquette OFF Negaunee. Jablonski said at this time, however, he is not willing to apply the term Polar Vortex to the ...

Airport receives million-dollar grant

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LANSING — Houghton County Memorial Airport will receive a million dollars in state funds designed to address PFAS contanimation related to the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy last week that grants totaling $9 million ...

Man convicted in 2021 crash

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SAULT STE. MARIE — Following a five-day jury trial, Tanner Dunbar Harrison was found guilty on Friday of one count of second-degree murder, nearly five years after the incident that claimed the life of 20-year-old Katie Robinson. The case was prosecuted by Chippewa County Chief Assistant ...

Ohio man dies in UP snowmobile crash

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ALGER COUNTY — A 22-year old Ohio man died as a result of injuries he sustained in a snowmobile accident in the central U.P. Saturday. According to a press release from the Michigan State Police, troopers from the Negaunee post responded to a report of snowmobile accident at approximately ...