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Iron Mt. Tadych's last day

IRON MOUNTAIN — After roughly four decades in the community, Tadych's Marketplace Foods shut its doors for good early Thursday evening. The grocery store at 1600 Stephenson Ave. officially ended business a week earlier than the date it originally posted when Minnesota-based Coborn's Inc., ...

UP Veteran of the Year

ESCANABA — A Delta County man, U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant (Ret.) Steven Kwarciany, was honored at the Upper Peninsula Veteran of the Year for 2026 at a ceremony at the U.P. State Fair yesterday. Since the first fair in Escanaba in 1928, there has been a “Governor’s Day” or ...

Welcome!

HOUGHTON — New Husky Orientation kicks off the week of Aug. 24 at Michigan Technological University. A crop of first-year college students, as well as transfers and international students will participate in actives across the week such as residence hall move-in days, new student ...

Challenges ahead

EAGLE RIVER — Keweenaw County faces significant financial challenges heading into 2027 due to expiring COVID-related relief funds and increasing operational costs, a reality that county officials warn could lead to impending budget cuts. County Treasurer Eric Hermanson presented the stark ...

Half full: Mark Wilcox

In the past couple of weeks it really seems that the tourism traffic has intensified here in Houghton and the Keweenaw in general. One indication was when my wife, Maryann, and I went out to dinner mid-week at a local restaurant recently and realized that we didn't know a soul in the place. I ...

A Great Lakes legacy

SAULT STE. MARIE – Most avid anglers can only dream about the exotic places where they would love to land their next big fish. Richard Barch, of Tecumseh, Mich. is one of those lucky outdoorsmen who has been able to fish and hunt in many places around the world, including some of these ...