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More than 300 graduate midyear from Michigan Tech

HOUGHTON – The campus of Michigan Technological University was covered in snow, but more than 300 undergraduate students blazed a trail Saturday and for some it was multiple years in the making. The university had its Midyear Commencement on Saturday, and the varsity gym in Tech’s Student ...

Bay College holiday closure dates

ESCANABA/IRON MOUNTAIN — Bay College will be closed Monday through Friday, Dec. 22-26, for the Christmas holiday. The college will be open Monday, Dec. 29, through Wednesday, Dec. 31. Bay will close again for the New Year holiday on Thursday, Jan. 1, and will re-open Friday, Jan. 2. Bay ...

Free Christmas meals to be served at several sites

IRON MOUNTAIN — Free Christmas-season meals will again be available in several area communities. They include — — A Christmas dinner will be served from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 424 Olive Ave. in Florence, Wis. The meal will include ham with all the ...

Oddfellows becomes events venue, with food vendors at week’s end

IRON MOUNTAIN — Jesse and Erica Land have turned the former Oddfellows Restaurant in downtown Iron Mountain into a modern, private event space. They found that running a restaurant and trying to have a family life with their three children was too difficult. They planned to sell to some ...

Some Michigan hunters may be allowed to skip paper kill tags

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Michigan may allow hunters to use a mobile app to show they are authorized to kill certain animals. Currently, hunters need a physical kill tag, ...