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 ...
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 Brumm, Jessica Hanley, Cody Mayer, Paul Schloegel, Corey Swanson and Sarah Wiensch. Mayer has served as the city’s mayor for the last year. Hanley is also running for re-election. Commissioner Fred Stonehouse’s term is also up, but his name does not appear on the ballot. Schloegel and Brumm ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 Area Public Schools Board of Education who recently voted to retire the Marquette Senior High School nicknames of Redmen and Redettes. According to Marquette County Clerk Linda Talsma, Jeremy Beerman of Marquette has filed the recall against trustees Jennifer Klipp and Jennifer Ray. Klipp and ...
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 ...
