Keweenaw Convention & Visitors Bureau
HOUGHTON Visitors and residents of the Midwest’s “snow capital” have a new outdoor attraction this winter. This past Friday, the City of Houghton launched a new outdoor ice-skating ribbon at the Ray Kestner Waterfront Park on the shores of the Keweenaw Waterway. Skaters can enjoy a scenic loop around the park with views of the historic Portage Lake Lift Bridge and easy access to downtown dining and shopping.
“Not everyone is a skier or snowshoer,” explained Eric Waara, Houghton City Manager. “After seeing people’s reaction to the opportunity to skate on the Portage itself earlier this winter around the holidays, it was easy to see that this might be something people would use and be fun for everyone.”
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Photo from U.S. District Court
In this Facebook screenshot included in an FBI search affidavit, Karl Dresch stands with a Trump flag in the U.S. Capitol, where Trump supporters had overrun security in an effort to halt the certification of Joe Bidenâs electoral votes.
MARQUETTE Hours after Joe Biden became president, a Calumet man appeared in federal court in connection with the mob that unsuccessfully tried to stop Congress from certifying his election.
Karl Dresch of Calumet is believed to be the first Michigan resident criminally charged for alleged involvement in the Capitol riots by President Donald J. Trump supporters on Jan. 6, shortly after the House and Senate had adjourned to their chambers to discuss an objection to Arizona’s results.
January 21, 2021
The Fenton resident killed in a weekend crash in the Upper Peninsula has been identified.
The crash involved three vehicles on US-41 near mile marker 102 in Michigamme Township at around 6pm last Saturday. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Negaunee Post and Deputies from the Marquette County Sheriffâs Office responded.
Investigation determined that a red 2005 Pontiac Aztek driven by 20-year-old Charlotte Jenkins of Fenton and a 19-year-old passenger, a Brighton woman, were westbound on US-41 when Jenkins lost control of the vehicle and collided with two eastbound vehicles. Jenkins, who went by the name Cameron, suffered fatal injuries as a result of the crash while the Brighton woman was hospitalized for what were described as serious injuries.
MICHIGAMME A 20-year-old woman died from injuries suffered in a Saturday accident in Michigamme Township.
Michigan State Police reported that at about 6 p.m. Saturday, troopers from the MSP Negaunee Post and deputies from the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a multi-vehicle traffic accident on U.S. 41 near marker 102 in Michigamme Township.
The investigation determined that a red 2005 Pontiac Aztek driven by a 20-year-old female from downstate Fenton and her 19-year-old female passenger from downstate Brighton were westbound on U.S. 41 when the driver lost control of her vehicle and collided with two eastbound vehicles.
The driver of the Aztek, confirmed by Michigan Tech University as an MTU student, suffered fatal injuries. The passenger was transported to UP Health System-Marquette for treatment of serious injuries. Two other injured motorists were transported to UPHS-Bell for treatment of their injuries.
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Michigan Tech University photo
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.”