MARQUETTE — With no rain predicted until the end of next week, the Michigan Department of Natural resources continues to prohibit open debris burning in all 15 Upper Peninsula counties and approximately half of the Lower Peninsula. Conditions in wooded areas are tinder dry in many locations. ...
HOUGHTON — More U.S. military veterans are now eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs health care than ever before, thanks to expanded eligibility under the PACT Act — including many who were previously denied. The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center outreach and enrollment team will ...
30 years ago MARQUETTE — Volunteers are being invited to plant flowers in the eighth annual Petunia Pandemonium Saturday morning in south Marquette. About 23,000 petunias will be planted along U.S. 41 South at the entry to town, beginning at 10 a.m. A practice planting session for children ...
MARQUETTE — After a particularly tough winter, bookended by two major storms, Marquette’s parks were in rough shape come spring. Both Tourist Park and Presque Isle Park had many downed trees, some blocking roads but thanks to the work of the city’s Parks and Rec Department, both popular ...
