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Editorial

Blues Festival will be missed in Marquette

We’re certain we speak for a great many Superiorland residents and visitors alike when we express a true sense of loss relative to the Blues Festival in Marquette. An annual late-summer fixture in the city’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park, the upcoming edition, the 20th, will be the last, ...

Get rid of unused drugs during take-back event

Doing some spring cleaning this weekend? Don’t forget your medicine cabinet, officials advise. The National Prescription Drug Take Back Campaign is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at roughly 4,000 drop-off locations across the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement ...

Utility bill scammers now working in area

A new kind of scammer is reportedly working in the area, and these ones are using utility bills to bilk customers. Word of this comes to us from SEMCO, the well-known gas company used by thousands of people in Superiorland and beyond. According to SEMCO, scammers are using the internet to ...

Detroit in spotlight in NFL draft event

The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City, which was once one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities, has bounced back from filing for bankruptcy in 2013, ...

Leave them be: don’t disturb wildlife babies

The perennial spring message of leaving wildlife babies be took on added significance last week. Images circulated from North Carolina of a group of people pulling two very young bear cubs out of a tree to pose for selfies. One cub later turned up sitting in a nearby retention pond and was ...