gneese@mininggazette.com HOUGHTON — Members of the public will be able to join Houghton County Board members on a tour of a possible site for a new Houghton County jail. The board approved up to $5,000 towards investigating the suitability of a 6-acre parcel at the current site of the First Apostolic Lutheran Church on Sharon Avenue. The board had been in discussions with the owner of a property on Evergreen Street, which had been on hiatus for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioners Roy Britz and Gretchen Janssen had looked for potential sites along with Karin Cooper, architect with U.P. Engineers & Architects. They had received confirmation the Apostolic Church site would be up for sale sometime in the future, Cooper said. Britz said he was given a rough asking price of $1.1 million last year.