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On one of my weekend exploratory trips I went to Calumet, Michigan, 15 miles north of Hancock. The town was a historical treasure. I learned that in its zenith, at the turn of the century, it was a thriving town surrounded by copper mines. At its height there was even some talk in the Michigan legislature to make Calumet the State Capital.
The mines were owned by big money interests from the Boston area. From 1907-1968 daily passenger trains connected the town to the rest of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. In fact, one could get on the “Sleeper” in Chicago in the early evening and arrive in Calumet the next morning. European Immigrants poured into the area seeking and finding work in the copper mines. Calumet was settled in 1864. Its original name was “Red Jacket” named for a Native American Chief of the Seneca tribe.
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M. Bartley Seigel, an associate professor of creative writing and literature at Michigan Tech University, is among five finalists for the position of U.P. Poet Laureate for 2021-23.
HOUGHTON Ask the average writing student which form of writing they despise most, poetry would likely be on the list. However, ask Michigan Tech associate professor M. Bartley Seigel, and you get a very different answer. For Seigel, poetry has been something he has been working on for longer than even he seems to realize.
“I’ve been a publishing poet for the last, I don’t know, 15 years of my life,” he said. “I had a book of poetry come out back in 2013. I kind of made my bread and butter as a literary magazine editor, and as a teacher of creative writing, but I’ve always been pretty low-key.”
Jan 16, 2021
WINNEBAGO, Ill. – Terri Saatio O’Neill, 62, of Winnebago, gained her wings peacefully after a 20-year battle with cancer.
She was born in Hancock, at St. Joseph’s Hospital and grew up in the town of South Range. She graduated from Jeffers High School and later Northern Michigan University and Rock Valley College.
Terri had many hobbies including, but not limited to: showing and raising standard schnauzers, sewing, crocheting, art, reading, traveling, genealogy, researching history of the copper country, baking, concerts especially Bob Seger, watching hockey, and most importantly spending time with her friends and family as well as her beloved german shepherd Seger and cockatiel Sammy.
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A sign outside the Ambassador Restaurant in Houghton is typical of those posted across Michigan.
HOUGHTON The state’s Covid-19-related health orders, which have already had a disastrous impact on Michigan, have been extended through Jan. 31, and establishment owners are trying to hang on. What began Nov. 18, 2020, as a “three-week pause,” is now dragging into its ninth week.
While most restaurants and bars in the Copper Country continue to adhere the state’s emergency health orders, a Jan. 11 release from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) stated that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and other state officials issued statements highly commending bar and restaurant owners for their ongoing compliance with the state’s COVID-19-related emergency health orders, prohibiting them from permitting indoor dining and gatherings, which were defined by the Michigan De
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