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Keweenaw Climate Community to hold Climate Café, Part 3, Nov. 3
Lake Superior. (Photo © and courtesy J. Knowlton)HANCOCK -- Over 150 people have attended the first two Climate Café events hosted by the Keweenaw Climate Community (KCC) group, and the series of...
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Video report: Candidates for federal, state representatives offer views on...
By Michele Bourdieu Lon Johnson, left, Democratic Congressional candidate for Michigan's First District (Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan) and 110th District State Rep. Scott Dianda, who is...
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Houghton County Commission Candidate Valorie Troesch meets with voters at...
By Michele Bourdieu Valorie Troesch (second from right), Democratic candidate for Houghton County Commissioner, District 2, chats with visitors during her Oct. 29 "Meet and Greet" event in the...
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Houghton County Democrats volunteer hours to Get Out the Vote
Volunteers at the Houghton County Democratic Party (HCDP) headquarters in Hancock (Mich.) give up hours of their time today, Nov. 6, to participate in the Get Out the Vote effort by making phone calls...
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Congressional Candidate Lon Johnson holds Town Hall in Keweenaw County
By Michele BourdieuFirst District Democratic Congressional Candidate Lon Johnson (center in dark jacket) holds an informal Town Hall discussion at Slim's Café in Mohawk on Oct. 5. Jacqueline...
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State Representative Scott Dianda re-elected to 110th House District seat
LANSING -- Election results at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, according to Upper Michigan Source (WLUC-TV6 in Marquette), report that 110th District State Rep. Scott Dianda (D-Calumet) has defeated...
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The Power of the Sacred Lakota Prayer
Jingle dress dancers praying in front of the road block set up by DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) security. (Photo © and courtesy Barbara With)By Barbara WithPosted Nov. 5, 2016, on Wisconsin Citizens...
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Carnegie Museum to host Erik Lilleskov on "Forest Fungi and the Future" Nov. 15
The Carnegie Museum in Houghton is hosting a 2016-2017 series of Natural History Seminars on "Living in the Woods: The Natural Future of the Keweenaw." Next Tuesday, Nov. 15, Erik Lilleskov, USDA...
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New DEQ Web site offers info, updates on Torch Lake Abandoned Mining Wastes...
By Michele BourdieuThis is one of 59 similar drums pulled out of a drum disposal mound created during the late 1970s or early 1980s on the former Coal Dock property between Hubbell and Lake Linden in...
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Michigan Tech students, community members unite in anti-hate demonstration...
By Michele BourdieuStudents gather in the center of the Michigan Tech campus for the demonstration and walk for unity on Nov. 16, 2016. Pictured here with signs are, from left, Neffertia Tyner,...
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Guest article: Après moi le déluge
By Louis V. Galdieri*Posted Nov. 14, 2016, on Louis V. Galdieri's blogReprinted here with permissionThere are many things at work in Trump’s reckless plan to withdraw from the Paris Agreement: it’s a...
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A Thanksgiving Tale: Michigan Tech EMT Student Saves His Father's Life
Michigan Tech student EMS volunteers who helped during Mark Calabria's heart attack. From left: Theodore Kretzmann, Mike Sommers, Kyle Huyser, Ramandeep Rekhi, Ross Michaels, Jesse Olson, Mario...
View ArticleMeeting on National Popular Vote Compact to be held Dec. 8 at Portage Library
HOUGHTON -- The recent presidential election was the fifth time in the nation’s history that the popular vote winner was not the winner of the election. The National Popular Vote (NPV) Compact, a "way...
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Keweenaw Climate Community to hold 4th Climate Café Dec. 1 at Orpheum...
By Michele BourdieuTo open the Nov. 3, 2016, Climate Café event -- third in the series on "What's the Deal with Climate Change?" -- twins Lewis and Catherine Vendlinski, 8, of Houghton, prepare to...
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First Friday Art Walk, Christmas Tree Lighting begin Christmas in Calumet...
Art by Donna Lenard. (Photo courtesy Galerie Bohème)CALUMET -- Christmas in Calumet, with the lighting of the Christmas tree, and the First Friday, Dec. 2, Art Walk begin a weekend of holiday activity...
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Letter: Proposed SB 1187 to undo wolf protection is attempt to undermine will...
Michigan Wolf. (Photo courtesy Wolfwatchers)Dear Editor:Senator Tom Casperson has just introduced a new bill, SB 1187, which authorizes the unelected Natural Resources Commission to designate wolves as...
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s statement on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
Flags from the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, left, and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe are among hundreds of flags representing Native American water protectors at...
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New Slide Show: Christmas in Calumet 2016
Stopped in front of the Vertin Gallery in Calumet, Mich., on Dec. 3, 2016, Dean Nolan of Rocking W Stable in Eagle River, Wis., offers wagon rides during the Christmas in Calumet celebration. He will...
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From Offense to Prayer: Vets change their mission at Standing Rock
Pow wow at Standing Rock, honoring the veterans with a feather ceremony. Dec. 6, 2016. (Photo © and courtesy Kellie Stewart. Reprinted with permission)By Barbara With*Posted Dec. 8, 2016, on Wisconsin...
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Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly to host Christmas dinners;...
HANCOCK -- On December 25, 2016, Christmas Day, Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly will be hosting a traditional Holiday Dinner with candlelight, fresh flowers and live music. The dinners in...
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