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MTU groups clean up Princess Point, Hancock Beach

Posted 04/27/2005 

HOUGHTON - HANCOCK -- Michigan Tech's Aquanauts and members of Students for Environmental Sustainability (SfES), a subcommittee of MTU's Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC), braved unseasonably cold sub-freezing temperatures and high winds on Saturday, April 23, to clean up Princess Point and the waterfront path on the Houghton Canal, near the MTU campus. The Earth Week cleanup was a follow-up to the same two groups' cleanup of Princess Point and Hancock Beach last October. more
Photo: MTU Aquanauts and ESC volunteers with tires and other large objects they retrieved from the Houghton Canal during their Princess Point cleanup on Saturday, April 23. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

MTU Lode article: Mt. Bohemia condos pose new threat to archaeological site

Posted 04/21/2005 

HOUGHTON -- In her April 20, 2005, article, "Plowing over history?" Michelle Manarolla, Michigan Tech Lode staff writer, calls attention to local residents' concerns that the projected Mt. Bohemia condo development could destroy artifacts from archaeological site 20KE20, surveyed by Patrick and Susan Martin, Michigan Tech University professors and archaeologists, in 1988. The Martins, as well as the Office of the State Archaeologist in Lansing, have urged protection of the site, which was determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. When developer Lonie Glieberman began construction of Mt. Bohemia's septic system in the fall of 2001, concern for protecting this site was an issue, as it is now. Manarolla cites comments from Glieberman; James Berg, director of Ethics and Business Practice for International Paper (current owner of the site); and Janet Shea of the Keweenaw County Planning/Zoning Commission. Read the Lode article.
See also Paul Campbell's April 13, 2005, letter to the MTU Lode, expressing his concerns and two 2001 Keweenaw Now articles published at the time of the septic system construction: "DEQ to accept public comments on proposed Mt. Bohemia septic system" and "Black Bear constructs Mt. Bohemia septic system without DEQ permit." 

Keweenaw snow photos: April 2005  

A Photo Essay by Jim Junttila  Posted 03/29/2005 Updated 03/30/2005 and April 8, 2005

LAURIUM -- Jim Junttila of Laurium, outdoor writer and active board member of the Calumet-Keweenaw Sportsmen's Club, updates us on Keweenaw snow and ice resisting spring melt in his photos taken in Calumet and Laurium the first week of April 2005. See page 3 of his Keweenaw snow photo essay. more
Photo: First daylight savings time (Sunday, April 3) winter sunset at Calumet Waterworks on Lake Superior. (Photo © 2005 Jim Junttila. Reprinted with permission.)

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