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HOUGHTON Twelve-year-old Kylie Haege and her mom, Julie, spent the summer at the city of Houghton RV Park. What Kylie could not help but notice was the numb
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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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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 Tuesday.
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.”