Editor’s note: This is the third in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. Opportunity cost is money or benefits lost by not selecting a particular option during the decision-making process. Opportunity cost is ...
EAGLE RIVER — The Keweenaw County Board last week approved a proposal for a $75,000 reimbursement grant for an updated county master plan. Bob Pokorski, with the county Planning Commission, told the board at its regular November meeting that County Attorney Chuck Miller initially had ...
WASHINGTON — The House has passed legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people, pushing it one step closer to becoming law. The Social Security bill on Tuesday won bipartisan support in the House, 327-75, in what is now the lame-duck period for ...
HOUGHTON — The Houghton Zoning Board of Appeals approved a rear-yard variance for a home where constructors had not filed an updated permit request at its meeting Wednesday night preceding the regular Houghton City Council meeting. The 10-foot, 4-inch variance at 205 W. Douglass Ave. ...
HOUGHTON — At the Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw Saturday, children built stable bridges, watched chemical reactions unfold and turned fruit into music. It happened at the Mind Trekkers’ STEM Open House, where the Michigan Technological University group taught children about science, ...
HANCOCK — Seeing a piece of art is one thing. When it comes to a community arts center, getting to meet the artists behind it is another. “If you don’t know somebody, see their painting up on the wall, it’s like, ‘OK, that is art. It’s nice,’” said Lana Skubick, a board ...