On this week's Copper Country Today program, a local charter school is being organized. Todd VanDyke talks with Nora Laho and Steve Aho from the Copper Island Academy. And, there will be a CopperDog 150 this year, but it will be different. Doug Harrer fills us in.

Copper Country Today airs throughout Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula Sunday mornings at 7:00 on WOLV 97.7 FM, 8:00 WCCY 99.3 FM and 1400 AM, and 9:00 on WHKB 102.3 FM. The program is sponsored by the Portage Health Foundation.