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Childcare incubation program receives first-year funding

HOUGHTON — The Houghton County Board on Tuesday approved funding for one year to initiate a childcare program that has been discussed for several months. At the regular December Board meeting on Tuesday, Iola Brubaker, head of the Copper Country Great Start Collaborative, gave a presentation on a proposal that focuses on in-home childcare programs. The proposal, she said, follows a model used in Marquette County last year that resulted in 24 childcare slots in that county in the program’s first round of its proposal. Brubaker said that while building off the lessons learned from ...

Former Michigan GOP spokesman: Fake elector defendants were misled

LANSING — A former communications director for the Michigan GOP testified Thursday that he believes an attorney for then-President Donald Trump’s campaign “took advantage” of some of the 15 Republicans who face forgery and another charges for allegedly serving as false electors. Anthony Zammit testified during the second day of a preliminary hearing for six of the defendants in a Lansing courtroom. Investigators have said the group signed a document during a meeting at the Michigan Republican headquarters on Dec. 14, 2020, falsely stating they were the state’s “duly ...

GETTING CLOSER

CALUMET — The State Historic Preservation Office has authorized the village to begin working with a local contractor to move ahead with installing a new heating system in the Village Hall building, which includes the Calumet Theatre. “The contractor was in here two weeks ago to measure ...

Day tapped for Breitung Township Board seat

QUINNESEC — Quinnesec resident Michael Day has been appointed to the Breitung Township Board. Town trustees Monday chose Day for the vacant seat created when Rich Wales resigned at the Nov. 6 meeting. Day, 75, is a 40-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, where he held the rank of chief warrant officer. He has lived in Quinnesec since retiring in 2010. He is the current secretary of both the Breitung Township Zoning Board of Appeals and the Tax Assessors Board of Review. “I want to thank everyone on the board for your confidence,” Day said. “Rich was fantastic all the ...

Wisconsin lawmakers eye ranked choice voting

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan bill that would dramatically change how Wisconsin residents choose congressional candidates by asking them to rank their top choices instead of voting for one of two candidates had its first public hearing in the state Legislature on Tuesday. The hearing comes just a week after opponents circulated a proposed constitutional amendment to ban ranked choice voting. It’s unclear whether either measure has enough support to pass, but the movement shows the idea is gaining attention in the battleground state. The bill before the state Senate’s ...

Toys for Tots work to make Christmas merry

ESCANABA –Toys for Tots, a nonprofit public charity directed by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has been collecting new, unwrapped toys for children in less fortunate homes since 1947. This year’s collections are underway, with the local chapter servicing Delta and Menominee counties. In ...