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Calumet set on updating master plan, creating strategic plan

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CALUMET VILLAGE — Last Saturday’s Calumet Community Day was to provide community members an opportunity to offer their feedback and thoughts on the future of the village as it moves forward with its revitalization efforts and prepares to update its five-year Master Plan. It was for that ...

Baraga, L’Anse districts talk consolidation

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BARAGA — Representatives from the Baraga and L’Anse school districts met Monday night to discuss what a potential consolidated school district would look like, and what questions to ask residents about the change in an upcoming survey. The districts have both seen enrollment declines ...

Paddling made easy: Just five basic strokes

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Part Nine: Out on the water This is one in a series of staff writer Graham Jaehnig’s personal experiences as a beginner kayaker. When talking about five basic paddle strokes, we already learned two of them. First, we talked about the Forward Stroke; the Reverse Stroke is done by simply ...

Art for Peace connects the Keweenaw and Ukraine

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Children in Houghton and Hancock spent the summer creating art depicting peace. They proudly displayed their work to the public at an Art for Peace exhibition on Thursday at the Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock. “Just as seeds you plant in the ground grow into beautiful ...

Woman known as The Keweenaw’s Architect

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By JENNIFER DONOVAN For the Mining Gazette Karin Cooper is a woman who has risen to the top in a profession where men outnumber women three to one—architecture. And her gender actually has been an advantage, not a roadblock, says Cooper, project architect at U.P. Engineers and Architects ...