White Pine News

They've weathered economic storms in the past. But residents in Ontonagon County say there aren't many options for workers at the White Pine Refinery, facing a plant closure next year.

HudBay Minerals Inc., which last February cancelled its $672-million acquisition of Lundin Mining Corp.

The White Pine Copper Refinery in Ontonagon County will be closing down withinA one year.

HudBay Minerals Inc. announced Thursday it plans to close its copper smelter in Flin Flon Man., before July 1, 2010, a move expected to affect the nearby community of Creighton.

The Western Upper Peninsula Citizen Advisory Council, CAC,A for the Department of Natural Resources will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, May 18, at Konteka Motel, located at 400 Main Street , Mineral Circle Plaza in White Pine.

After a bond proposal that would have moved Ontonagon elementary students into the high school failed last year, school administrators are trying it again.A But this time they're not going to the public.

The Isabella County Building in Mount Pleasant is now flying the Michigan flag thanks to a 7-year-old girl who wrote a letter asking why the U.S. flag was flying alone.