CALUMET TOWNSHIP The Michigan State Police Calumet Post in a Friday release reported a vehicle versus bicycle crash involving an 11-year-old boy. At appr
May 4, 2021
Finlandia University is the winner of the “Fight the Flu” competition for the 2020-21 academic year. The goal was to see which Upper Peninsula university could obtain the highest percentage of its total population vaccinated against the flu. Northern Michigan University was runner-up. (Photo courtesy of NMU)
MARQUETTE The Northern Michigan University Center for Rural Health has completed its inaugural “Fight the Flu” competition to determine which of the four Upper Peninsula universities could get the highest percentage of its total population vaccinated against the flu.
The winner for the 2020-21 academic year is Finlandia University, with 12.1% of its students, staff and faculty members reporting they had been vaccinated.
Jan 19, 2021
STANTON TOWNSHIP A 22-year-old Macomb County man was rescued from Lake Superior this weekend after he fell through the ice near the break wall, according to a release.
At 8:15 p.m. Sunday, deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Stanton Township Park to the scene, where the man was holding on to the break wall, while another male on the break wall had witnessed the Macomb man fall into the water.
The male was pulled from the water onto the break wall using a rope. Deputies and and a Michigan DNR Conservation Officer used ropes to assist both people along the icy break wall back to the shore.