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Marquette City Commission to explore option allowing tourists to support local infrastructure

MARQUETTE — At Monday night’s meeting of the Marquette City Commission, Commissioner Michael Larson brought up a recent statement made by Traverse City Manager Ben Marentette about the potential of an additional tax placed on hotel rooms and short-term rentals which would be collected by the city to use for infrastructure. “Recently the Traverse City Manager has been encouraging destination communities across Michigan to explore a local option that would allow overnight visitors staying in hotels to support public infrastructure and services that they rely on during their ...

Man arrested for assault with intent to commit murder in Menominee

MENOMINEE — The Menominee County Sheriff’s Office released a statement on Tuesday about a recent arrest. “Sheriff Kuwda reports that on Saturday, deputies from the Menominee County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a Menominee Township residence in reference to an individual shooting at another person during an argument about cutting grass,” read the statement. “After investigating the incident, a search warrant was executed and a Menominee Township resident was arrested and lodged at the Menominee County Jail.” The person arrested was Anthony Raymond Mech, 57, ...

EGLE tours Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority sites

NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy joined state and local partners at the Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority Tuesday for tours of their Material Recovery Facility and Reverse Osmosis Treatment Plant, as well as to announce that ...

New Isle Royale Heritage Alliance launched

ISLE ROYALE — National Park Service officials have announced the launch of the Isle Royale Heritage Alliance, a new effort to advance coordinated protection and improvement of Isle Royale National Park’s historic structures—approximately 90 cabins, 19 fishery buildings and four ...

Marquette landlord fined over $32,000 by Michigan Civil Rights Commission

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a ruling on Monday in a case between Marquette landlord Jeffrey Cornock of Cornock Rental Properties and former tenant Kaylee Franz. The case was over Cornock denying Franz’s request for a reasonable accommodation to have an Emotional Support Animal on the premises due to her disability, failing to renew a tenant’s lease because of her disability and retaliating against the tenant because she engaged in a protected activity under Michigan’s Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act. According to a statement released by ...