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Medicine cabinet presentation set
October 12, 2011 MARQUETTE — The Northern Center for Lifelong Learning will offer a class titled “Medicine Cabinet Blues” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Room 101-B of the Superior Dome. more »» 
Desire to help others a key component in chosing education as career
October 5, 2011 ISHPEMING — Kids spend at least 13 years of their lives in school, doing homework, making friends and above all, learning. Some can’t wait to leave after graduation. more »»
Violin instructional method celebrating 40 years in the Copper Country
October 5, 2011 HOUGHTON — Sometime in the 1960s, the Suzuki method for teaching violin came to the United States, and it reached the Copper Country not long after that, according to Libby Meyer. more »» 
Things are getting done at Homework Night
September 28, 2011 MARQUETTE — Like many kids, Marquette Senior High School freshman Makayla Foster sometimes needs help with her homework. So she attends Homework Night at one of the local churche. more »» 
Finnish Fulbright Scholar comes to Finlandia
September 28, 2011 HANCOCK — A Fulbright Scholar will be part of Finlandia University’s Suomi College of Arts & Science for this school year. more »»
‘Style’ class to be offered here
September 28, 2011 MARQUETTE — The Northern Center for Lifelong Learning will offer Accessorize Yourself for Pizzazz at 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at ReBlossom in downtown Marquette. more »» 
Public school art teachers foster creativity in students
September 21, 2011 MARQUETTE — With a small group of kindergarteners surrounding her in a loose semi-circle, art teacher Joy Bender Hadley held up a painting of a tiger and two cubs in a cave and asked the children... more »»
Copper Country site of ‘cyber citizens’ program
September 21, 2011 HOUGHTON — Technological advances have always opened the door for new opportunities for scientists and educators, and a new local National Science Foundation-funded program is a prime example. more »»
Geneaological society to meet
September 21, 2011 MARQUETTE — The Marquette Genealogical Society will meet at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Shiras Room at the Peter White Public Library. Refreshments will be served. more »»
Open house at alpaca farm set
September 21, 2011 SKANDIA — Donna Pearre and Carole Van House, owners of Avalon Farm Alpacas in Skandia, will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. more »» 
Negaunee Township teens pick different setting for high school
September 14, 2011 MARQUETTE — Although Macy Niemisto lives in Negaunee Township, she doesn’t go to school in Negaunee. Niemisto, 16, is a sophomore at Marquette Senior High School. more »» 
Exchange students starting classses in Copper Country
September 14, 2011 CHASSELL — For Anders Clausen and Nicolas Ferro, being exchange students is as much learning about Americans as it is learning about the American education system. more »»
Carnegie program announced
September 14, 2011 ISHPEMING — The Friends of the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library will present a lyceum program titled “The Wooden Lung: A History of Polio in the U.P.” at 2 p.m. Sunday in the children’s room. more »»
Homework Night at church offered
September 14, 2011 MARQUETTE— Messiah Lutheran Church, 305 W. Magnetic St., in Marquette offers a Homework Night program from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays each wee. more »» 
At Ewen-Trout Creek, school board mulls student use of high-tech devices
September 7, 2011 EWEN — To e-read or not to e-read was a hot topic at the Ewen-Trout Creek Consolidated School Board of Education meeting recentl. more »»
Back to school is a real test ... for teen retailers
September 7, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — Teens are heading back to school, but it’s the retailers catering to them that are getting the first tes. more »» 
Getting ready to go back to school
August 24, 2011 MARQUETTE — As the remaining days in August fall off the calendar children and their parents now turn their attention to the start of school. more »» 
More than just books at the library
August 24, 2011 Maria Silva reads to a group of children during Story Time at the Portage Lake District Library in Houghton. more »»
Home schoolers meeting set
August 24, 2011 NEGAUNEE — The Upper Michigan Christian Home Educators will have its annual home school kick off meeting for the 2011-2012 school year at 7 p.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Church in Negaunee. more »» 
Planetarium ‘Pluto debate’ educates, excites
August 17, 2011 MARQUETTE — A new program at the Shiras Planetarium in Marquette spotlights the controversial 2006 decision to downgrade Pluto from planet to dwarf plane. more »» |
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