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Finlandia 2023 honors & awards recipients

HANCOCK, MI - Finlandia’s Academic Achievement Committee hosted the university’s annual Honors & Awards Ceremony on Friday. Friends, faculty and staff gathered in Martha Wiljanen Hall at FinnU’s Finnish American Heritage Center to celebrate the students selected to receive honors and awards. The Sisu Award is given to graduating students who have shown courage, fortitude and perseverance in overcoming hardship to achieve academic and personal success. Brandon Hale and Elijah Emmer were the two recipients of this year’s Sisu Award. Membership in the Sampo Society is awarded to ...

UPHP members alerted to security breach

EpiSource press release EpiSource found that an unknown, unapproved third party accessed its data. Some of this data included Upper Peninsula Health Plan member data. EpiSource learned on February 20, 2023, that its cloud-based account was accessed the day prior by an unapproved person. EpiSource took instant action to secure the involved systems. They have added more security measures to protect their systems. EpiSource told UPHP as soon as it learned that some UPHP members were involved. This notice was on February 28, 2023. On March 3, 2023, UPHP found out which members were ...

Final defendant sentenced in conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine

MARQUETTE – U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for the Western District of Michigan today announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sentenced Elizabeth Jean Decota, also known as “Biz,” to 51 months in prison. She was the tenth and final defendant to plead guilty and be sentenced in United States v. Smith, et al., No. 2:22-cr-01. Chief Judge Jarbou imposed the sentence after commenting that the conspiracy had a “significant impact on the community,” bringing in a “significant quantity of methamphetamine to an area” already so heavily impacted by drug ...

Houghton native, NMU student is Sister City scholar in Japan

Over the more than four decades that Marquette has had a Sister City relationship with Higashiomi, Japan, Northern Michigan University’s president has sponsored one student from there to attend NMU each year. Now, for the first time, a Northern student is a reciprocal Sister City scholar. ...

Lake Linden – Hubbell Elementary Preschool, Kindergarten registration

Lake Linden - Hubbell Elementary will hold a registration day for prospective kindergarten and preschool students from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 26 Students who turn 5 before September 1, 2023 or December 1 (with waiver) are eligible to register for kindergarten. Students who turn ...