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Building community leaders: Insights from a 2025 Delta Force graduate

The Delta Force Leadership Program was created to connect and inspire emerging leaders, helping them better understand our waterfront community while encouraging a spirit of service and engagement. It brings together individuals who are already making a difference and provides them with the ...

Remember when?

The Flat Rock Elementary School in Gladstone, which closed its doors many years ago, had a reputation as an excellent rural school. It housed almost 200 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, with 14 teachers. One year Flat Rock Elementary was awarded the Michigan Golden Apple Award, ...

Groundbreaking for charter high school in Houghton

CALUMET TOWNSHIP – Moyle Construction had a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for the new Copper Island Academy High School. When completed, it will be the third instructional building on the Copper Island Academy campus, on Industrial Drive, near the Houghton County Memorial ...

Ely Township to buy Barnes Hecker Mine plot, convert space to memorial park

ISHPEMING — The Barnes Hecker mine, known for the 1926 cave-in that took 51 lives, is in the final stages of being purchased by Ely Township. The purchase is not fully complete but the township decided to share a bit of information in a public release. “Due to many people sharing false ...

October means all things pumpkin spice

ESCANABA -- It’s the scent of the season. It’s the fragrance of fall. Frosty nights and orange, amber and crimson days make our taste buds crave pumpkin spice. Great-grandma was right; nothing satisfies like an apple cinnamon pie still warm from the oven. A golden-brown pumpkin pie ...

A reflection on NMU’s 1975 NCAA win

MARQUETTE – One of the most legendary sports moments in Northern Michigan University history was when the Wildcats football team went from worst to first by winning the 1975 NCAA District II championship. Now, 50 years later, nearly all the team will gather to commemorate it this weekend ...