State police hold emergency support training in Upper Peninsula

August 27, 2025

GWINN — The Michigan State Police’s Emergency Support Team held the second day of its Fall Refresher Training on Tuesday morning. The training is an intensive, multi-day event that brings together the entire statewide ES Team for one of three annual large-scale training sessions. In the ES Team’s 50-year history, this is the second time a training like it has taken place in the Upper Peninsula (the first took place in the Sault Ste. Marie area in the late 1990s,) and the first time ever in Marquette County. Lt. Ben Eckola, the MSP Eighth District’s public information ...

Orpheum to host farmers market

January 4, 2023

By GRAHAM JAEHNIG Daily Mining Gazette HANCOCK — The newly organized Hancock Cold Season Farmers Market will return to the Orpheum Theater onThursday from 3-6 p.m., said one organizer, Zack Osborne. The upcoming event will be the third this season. “We had sort of like a grand opening on Dec. 15,” said Zack Osborne, “for people who wanted to get some holiday shopping in.” The response was so positive that shoppers as well as vendors wanted to have another market the week before Christmas, said Osborne. The second market event, occurred on Dec. 22. Osborne said items ...

Eagle’s Nest Road closed for repairs Wednesday

October 25, 2022

The Marquette County Road Commission will be closing Eagle’s Nest Road (county road hn) in Marquette Township approximately .2 miles east of its northerly intersection with County Road 550 on Wednesday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. for a culvert replacement. For more information, call the Marquette County Road Commission at ph. 906-486-4491.