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Elections

Girard announces run for 109th

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Former Marquette Township Manager Randy Girard announced Wednesday that he will be running to unseat Jenn Hill to represent the 109th District in the Michigan House of Representatives. Girard currently serves as a Marquette County road commissioner and will ...

City commission, BLP seats in hands of voters

By DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Marquette residents will have the opportunity to fill three seats on the Marquette City Commission next Tuesday. Six candidates are facing off in the upcoming general election. Marquette City Commission candidates are Margaret ...

LaLonde takes vacant county board seat

By RANDY CROUCH Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board of Commissioners selected former Negaunee Mayor Dana LaLonde to fill the seat left behind by late Commissioner Gerry Corkin during a Tuesday meeting. LaLonde was picked from a pool of six candidates who applied ...

MAPS recall petition rejected

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Election Commission on Friday unanimously decided that the recall petition language filed against Marquette Area Public Schools Board of Education trustees Jennifer Klipp and Jennifer Ray was not clear or factual, ...

Election commission to consider MAPS board recall language

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Election Commission will meet at noon Sept. 1 in the Henry A. Skewis Courtroom Annex to conduct a hearing and rule on the clarity and factuality of recall language filed against several members of the Marquette ...

Mixed results for millages

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Voters on Tuesday passed the special education millage proposal by the Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency by a vote of 7,055 to 5,684. The proposal asked for an increase in the special education levy previously ...