U.P. Michigan Works has secured 41 grants for businesses in the U.P. for workforce employment training. The Department of Labor and Economic Opportunities Going Pro Talent Fund. The grants, totaling $1.6 million are part of a $40 million round of funding across the state, designed to help make employees more marketable. Industries like health care, … Read more
A petition with 250,000 signatures and a letter signed by over 70 organizations has been delivered to the Michigan Governor’s office and members of the House and Senate Appropriations by representatives of the Protect the Porkies campaign. Both were intended to express opposition to SOAR funding of the proposed Copperwood Mine. Along with the petition … Read more
Vilas County’s Boulder Junction may soon be a bit like Canada. A couple of Park Board members are helping to create the first rural ice skating ribbon in Wisconsin. Urban areas have ice skating ribbons, and Canada has a few, so Henry Royer and Steve Weber say the trails are an undiscovered gem for the … Read more
The Superior Watershed Partnership (SWP) Energy & Climate Office has received a grant to provide expanded heat, electric, water and waste utility assistance to low-incom, and asset limited, income constrained, employed residents in the U.P. The SWP is the only non-profit organization in the U.P. to receive the $1.5 million grant out of ten grants … Read more
A man from Odanah has been sentenced on burglary and theft charges after pleading no contest. TheDailyPress reports Kaleb Julian, 37, will spend six months in jail and serve two years probation. A dozen similar charges were dismissed but read into the court record. Julian took money from his employers at Blue Ribbon Kennels in … Read more
The snow in the area is just in time…this weekend is Ironwood’s Jack Frost Festival. This year’s festival coincides with First Friday, and several organizations will be participating. The Downtown Ironwood Development Authority is holding “Frost Friday”, with a vendor crawl with more than 25 arts and crafts vendors manning booths at various businesses. The … Read more
The City of Washburn is looking to add improvements to Hillside Park and is working on formulating recommendations for those improvements. The Parks Committee has been gathering public input both at their monthly meetings and from comments gathered at listening session held earlier this year. That information was shared along with four options at a … Read more
An Ashland County Circuit Court judge has determined that a Bayfield man is not competent to stand trial on drug charges. TheDailyPress reports Robert Charette Jr., 55, faces 12 charges including drug possession with intent to deliver, possession of paraphernalia, maintaining a drug trafficking location as well as disorderly conduct and domestic abuse. Judge Kelly … Read more
The Friends of the Mercer Public Library will once again be holding its traditional Holiday Cookie Exchange. The fun starts at noon at the Mercer Public Library on West Margaret Street next Saturday, the 14th. Attendees are asked to bring three dozen homemade cookies, candies or other holiday to share and exchange in order to … Read more
An Arbor Vitae man was killed in a one car crash near Newbold in Oneida County over the holiday weekend. The Oneida County Sheriff’s Department issued a press release that said deputies responded to a call around 3:15 Friday afternoon. Deputies arrived to find that David Woods, 71, had driven off the road on County … Read more