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Meetings in the area this week

Iron County Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Pentoga Park Pavilion, 1630 County Road 424, Crystal Falls. The agenda includes a review of park operations. Breitung Township School District Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Kingsford High School Media Center. Breitung Township Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Township Hall in Quinnesec. The agenda includes a bid award for an East Kingsford water project and a Michigan State Police traffic control order for Breitung Avenue. For more, go to https://www.breitungtownshipmi.gov/township. Kingsford Planning ...

Scholarship to support skilled trades students

ESCANABA — The Bay College Foundation has established the Don Mlostek Memorial Scholarship, created to honor the life, service and community commitment of Donald “Don” Mlostek. The scholarship will be awarded annually, beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year, to a Bay College student ...

USDA Rural Development event Tuesday in Marquette

MARQUETTE — U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Michigan State Director Dom Restuccia and U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement Senior Advisor Jason Allen will attend a community engagement event Tuesday in Marquette. The Upper Peninsula community funding announcement and Rural Opportunity Zone roundtable will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Eastern time in the Kaufman Block Building, also known as the Flagstar Building, 101 W. Washington St., Marquette.

Reaching deepest Superior for the first time in 40 years

For 20 years, Shawn Sitar has studied a part of Lake Superior he has never seen. Sitar, a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, studies fish at the deepest spot on the largest freshwater lake on earth. It’s an area known as Superior Maximus, with ...

Kingsford tax rate to stay flat for 2026

KINGSFORD — There will be little change in the millage rate to support city government under a budget approved this week by Kingsford City Council. The operating millage will dip to 17.8 mills, or $17.80 cents per $1,000 of taxable value, down 20 cents from the current 18 mills. The fire and pension levy remains at 2 mills, but the public works levy — approved in 1997 for general obligation bonds for the construction of a public works building — will rise by 0.17 mills to 0.85 mills. All told, the city’s levies will add up to 20.65 mills, or $20.65 per $1,000 of taxable ...

Street closures OK’d for IM Gus Macker

IRON MOUNTAIN — Street closures for Iron Mountain’s Gus Macker tournament will depart slightly from previous years as the Dream Court will move off Carpenter Avenue to Hughitt Street just north of the Imagination Factory Community Center. As approved by the city council earlier, ...