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Matherne selected as 2023-24 Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate

U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation Press release The U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of Beverly Matherne to serve as the 2023-24 U.P. Poet Laureate. Matherne is professor emerita of English at Northern Michigan University, where she served as director of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing and poetry editor of Passages North literary magazine. The author of seven books of poetry, she lives in Ishpeming, far from Grand Point, her birthplace on the Mississippi near New Orleans. She is inspired by both the wealth of her Cajun and ...

Faculty exhibit at Finlandia rescheduled for tonight

Finlandia University Press release The artist reception for Finlandia University’s 2023 International School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibit has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 23. The event will coincide with Finlandia Art Night and will include the 2023 Faculty Exhibit, a reception and awards presentation for the Finlandia Student Juried Art Exhibit and a cardboard fashion show by Finlandia art and design students. The 2023 faculty exhibit and cardboard fashion show will both take place at the Finlandia University Gallery in the Finnish American Heritage Center from 7 – ...

Statewide tornado drill scheduled for March 22

LANSING, MICH. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared March 19-25 as Michigan’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, and the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD) is calling on residents to act by participating in a voluntary statewide tornado drill at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22. “We are approaching the anniversary of the deadly EF3 tornado that devastated the city of Gaylord last year,” said Capt. Kevin Sweeney, deputy state director of Emergency Management and commander of the MSP/EMHSD. “It serves as an important reminder to take ...

City of Houghton community rally

You are invited to a community rally opposing the unfair tax avoidance by Walmart against the city of Houghton and our community. WHAT: A demonstration against Walmart about the ongoing tax dispute with the city of Houghton. Walmart thinks they deserve special treatment with reduced taxes. If successful, it will also threaten CRITICAL programs and services that benefit families, public education, veterans, the elderly, and their own employees and customers. Learn more here. WHO: Anyone who believes that Walmart should pay the same property taxes as everyone else. Please share this ...

Houghton Schools takes a hat trick

MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) is extremely pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Dandelion Cottage Award. The award recognizes U.P. student short story writers of excellence in grades 5 – 12. The Dandelion Cottage Award is funded entirely by charitable donations and no fees have ever been charged to entrants or winners. Students submit stories in consultation with their teachers. This year’s contest was made even more exciting by adding 2nd and 3rd place winners to the junior division which formerly chose only a single winner ...

Rozsa Center Ticketing Update

AudienceView, a third-party ticketing system used by many universities, including Michigan Tech, is currently investigating a security threat, and online ticket sales for Rozsa events are temporarily unavailable as a result. If you have already purchased tickets for this Thursday’s performance of Sō Percussion, please plan to check in at the Will Call window at the Rozsa Box Office. Walk-up tickets will be available for all March events while we work on a solution for online ticket sales. We will send you updates as they become available.