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HOUGHTON The Houghton City Council likely wrapped up its budget meetings Wednesday, as City Manager Eric Waara ran through the parking, water, sewer, equipment and employee benefit funds.
Employee benefit, previously planned to be raised by 2%, was instead raised by 5%. In recent years, the city had purposely tried to lower the balance rather than balance the budget. This year had already seen a higher drawdown of funds due to the reduced overtime resulting from the lighter winter.
The city did not have to perform the same level of services for the state as it would do during the winter, but were still staffed and equipped for that level of work, Councilman Mike Needham said.
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Dan Kauppi and Scott Ochodnicky of Copper Harbor pick up trash near the summit of Brockway Mountain Saturday during the first Brockway Mountain Cleanup. (Houghton Daily Mining Gazette photo by Garrett Neese)
BROCKWAY MOUNTAIN One of Adam Simon’s favorite pastimes is hunting for agates.
Near the summit of Brockway Mountain Saturday afternoon, he turned his discerning eye from treasure to trash.
“That’s what I’m applying towards this, using that same mentality of just focusing on anything that looks like it doesn’t belong,” he said.
There was plenty. Simon was one of about 50 people who turned out for the first Brockway Mountain Cleanup Saturday.
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Houghton City Manager Eric Waara points to the potential location of a dog park by the water tank on Sharon Avenue and Portage Street during the Houghton Planning Commission meeting this week. (Houghton Daily Mining Gazette photo by Garrett Neese)
HOUGHTON The Houghton Planning Commission gave its support Tuesday to plans to relocate the Verna Mize memorial to the waterfront and create a new dog park by Sharon Avenue.
Since its dedication in 1981, the Verna Mize Park has been located on a thin strip of land along Memorial Drive.
Mize, a Houghton native, campaigned to stop the Reserve Mining Company from dumping tailings of taconite, an iron ore, into Lake Superior at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Her 13-year fight ended with a 1980 settlement that stopped the dumping. For her efforts, former Gov. William Milliken dubbed her “the First Lady of Lake Superior.”
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