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DNR to lift baiting ban in UP’s CWD zone

The Upper Peninsula Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Zone — which includes parts of Delta, Dickinson and Menominee counties — will be removed beginning with this year’s hunting seasons, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said. As a result, hunters in this area can resume baiting and feeding practices. The change was approved at a recent meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Roscommon, where the commission adopted deer regulations that will be in effect for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 hunting seasons. In a news release Tuesday, DNR deer program ...

Visiting artist Mike Marks will showcase hand carved wood block prints, ink wash paintings and drawings through June 29. In his statement about the exhibition Mike explains, “Surface Tension explores themes of movement and permanence within the landscape, depicting nature as a collection ...

Michigan-IO celebrates folk songs of The Great Lakes

CRYSTAL FALLS – Crystal Theatre celebrates the forgotten folk songs from Michigan and the Great Lakes region Friday, June 23 at 7 p.m. CDT. Six stringed instrumentalists, calling themselves Michigan-IO, have been re-imagining and rearranging these great songs in a sound and style true to the original songs and pleasing to our contemporary ears. In the 19th century, while the lumber and mining trades prospered in Michigan, so did the folk tradition. That’s owed mainly to the workers themselves. After a hard winter spent felling trees, or a dangerous voyage in a freighter heavy ...

Pettibone donates to food program in honor of World Hunger Day

Baraga — Pettibone has donated 220 pounds of nonperishable foods to the Baraga-Houghton-Keweenaw Community Action Agency, providing hundreds of meals to those in need. The local engineering and manufacturing company collected employee donations throughout May in honor of World Hunger ...

Delivery of new waste management carts delayed

Delivery of the trash and recyclables carts has been delayed. The City of Houghton trash and recyclables carts will be delivered beginning Tuesday, May 29. It will take approximately two days to deliver them. Residents can continue the present system until Monday, June 5. On Monday, June 5 all of the carts will have been delivered and all trash and recyclables will be placed inside the carts. Thank you for your patience. Also, remember that Waste Management honors Memorial Day so all trash and recyclables collection will be delayed one day that week.

Closure planned for Boney Falls boat launch May 30

Marquette – Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) is announcing the company’s boat launch facility at Dam No. 4 on the Boney Falls reservoir will be temporarily closed to the public on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023. The closure is required to support planned maintenance and facility improvements that are being completed by UPPCO this summer. Access to the campground that is located near Dam No. 4 will remain open but will be delayed at times. “We are asking the public to avoid the Boney Falls boat launch on May 30th,” said Brett French, Vice President of Business Development and ...