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Nine U.P. businesses receive MEDC match on main funding for local growth

MARQUETTE — Nine Upper Peninsula businesses are among 69 businesses statewide receiving support through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Match on Main program, which provides funding to help new and expanding small businesses grow in downtowns and commercial districts. U.P. recipients include businesses in Houghton (Center Ice Skate and Sport, Inc. and Armando's Inc.), Wakefield (Z's Hometown Market, LLC), Marquette (Kognisjon Bryggeri, LLC), Negaunee (The Negaunee Holdings LLC), L’Anse (Village Gift Store, LLC), Ironwood (UP-N-Smoke BBQ LLC), Escanaba (Nevaeh Salon ...

Iron Ore Heritage Trail expansion strengthens Marquette County recreation

MARQUETTE — Several projects are planned along the Iron Ore Heritage Trail this summer, including an extension of over four miles in Chocolay Township that will put the trail to just over 50 miles. The extension will improve the existing corridor from Kawbawgam Road to Lakenenland Sculpture Park with a crushed aggregate surface and a new parking area to improve access from the east end of the trail. Additional interpretive panels are also planned in Ishpeming and near the Barnes-Hecker Mine disaster site, adding to the trail’s role as both a recreation staple to the area and a ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE — The federal government will not interfere in the internal politics of Indian tribes, a U.S. attorney said Tuesday in response to a tribe’s demand for federal law enforcement. “The ongoing controversy at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community is an intra-tribal dispute that in the first instance must be resolved by the tribe itself,” U.S. Attorney Michael Detmer said in a written response to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the tribe. 90 years ago MARQUETTE — Railroad locomotives in Marquette County will take part in a western train chorus of 18,000 whistles ...

Between the Columns

Check out what the Non-Fiction Adult Book Group has been reading this past year. The Non-Fiction Book Group welcomes readers interested in a variety of contemporary non-fiction and meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month September through May in the PWPL Conference Room at 2 p.m. Book descriptions in this article are adapted from publishers’ summaries and library catalog records.
 “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green (616.995 GR) —In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. In the years since ...

Correction: Chocolay Township Board issues will be addressed in August

A letter to the editor that was published in Thursday's edition of The Mining Journal stated that the Chocolay Township Board will consider the text amendments to its Zoning Ordinance related to natural resource extraction at its meeting this Monday night. The ordinance is not on that agenda, and the board expects the ordinance to be on the agenda for its August regular meeting, though that agenda has not been set at this time.

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