CALUMET TOWNSHIP – Moyle Construction held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Copper Island Academy High School Wednesday. When completed, it will be the third instructional building on the Copper Island Academy campus, on Industrial Drive, near the Houghton County Memorial Airport.

Nora Laho, academy director, said the school has grown every year since it opened in the fall of 2021. “We started with the initial building, which was our K-8 grades,” she said.

” The following year, a second building was constructed, containing six classrooms. That building was expanded to house a gymnasium. Then we added a six-classroom expansion in our second year, in a second building, then added a gymnasium. Last year we added a middle school attached to the gym.”

Laho said the school started with a

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