MARQUETTE — Select Realty has announced it is relocating this summer to “a beautiful Marquette Township property” located at 2363 U.S. 41 W. “Our new home is going to be the premiere location you will want to visit for all your real estate needs. Locally owned and operated, Select ...
Meal delivery company DoorDash said its revenue more than tripled last year thanks to pandemic-driven demand, but it still lost money because it spent more heavily on marketing and expanding its business. Temporary price caps — which limit the commission fees DoorDash can charge restaurants ...
It’s coming into a full year where events and social gatherings have been limited. Throw on top of that a turbulent year of political distress and here we are. Looking back at it, most businesses and organizations have survived. Either by cutting operational expenses, getting creative with ...
ISHPEMING — Mission Point Healthcare Services is welcoming a new administrator, Jason Thompson, to Mission Point of Ishpeming. Below is a statement from Thompson outlining his background, experience and goals. “I started my career out as a CNA when I was 17, not realizing how much I ...
PITTSBURGH — For someone just listening in, the conversation sounded almost like small talk. “Before Pittsburgh you lived in …?” “How do you say pizza in Chinese?” “Did you eat a lot of that in Chicago?” But the conversation was anything but ordinary. Lingwei Cheng, 27, ...
Strange times, they say, a phrase often repeated in the days and weeks of the Corona virus. Living through a pandemic is not an easy thing for everyone. The uncertainty surrounding the behavior of this novel virus has been a critical issue in modern medicine. As the pandemic has raged, we have ...
When we assume something, we are making an assumption. So, let us start out by looking at the specific definition of an assumption. An assumption is defined as something that is accepted by a person as being true, or a belief that something is certain to happen, without any known proof of it. ...
MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress recently announced a series of online health workshops along with Michigan Area Agencies on Aging that will focus on guiding individuals who are battling cancer, chronic pain or diabetes. The six-part workshops will run from now ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Climate Network has announced Sustainable Development Goals Launch team will be coming to Northern Michigan University and Marquette on March 11-12. There will be two speaking events and a facilitated workshop. During the workshop, participants will complete training ...
Toddler Storytime: Facebook Live Tuesdays and Wednesdays, March 2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 24, 30, 31: 10:15-10:45 a.m. Peter White Public Library Youth Services Facebook Live. Join us for Toddler Storytime on Facebook Live this winter. Tuesdays and Wednesday, at 10:15 a.m., this storytime is geared ...
MARQUETTE — Matthew Anderson, a senior at Marquette Alternative High School, is the winner of the $3,000 Impact a Life Scholarship. “The (Marquette Area Public Schools) Education Foundation provides this great resource and is just an excellent organization for our community youth,” said ...
The Education Department said Monday that it will not allow states to forgo federally required standardized testing in schools this year but will give them flexibility to delay testing or hold it online during the pandemic. Aiming for a middle ground in a polarized debate, the Biden ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — For 35 years, Dee Dee Hawk was solving unusual mysteries, like whether a captured grizzly bear was guilty of attacking a human. Sometimes using only scraps of evidence, she helped put bad guys behind bars and unraveled wildlife-related whodunits when there were no ...
It can begin with the occasional missed bill payment. An inability to remember names. Telling the same story repeatedly. There may be personality changes or mood swings. Confusion. Over time, it’s as if the person who once was slowly disappears. Dementia. As the population ages, a growing ...
PARIS — Question: How does one cram enough candles onto a birthday cake for one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19? Answer: With 117 candles, you can’t. A French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person celebrated her 117th birthday in style on Thursday, ...
NEW YORK — About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new poll that some experts say is discouraging news if the U.S. hopes to achieve herd immunity and vanquish the outbreak. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for ...
“I want to die along the highway and rot away, like some old high-line pole,” - Merle Haggard There’s a place I know where the jack pine grow, where the ground is covered in reindeer moss and red and green-leafed blueberry bushes. Growing here too are thousands of bracken ferns. These ...
MUNISING — Across the country, more than 237 million people visited national parks last year, according to the National Park Service, which oversees Pictured Rocks. Visitation at most parks decreased when compared to 2019 figures. However, 14 NPS sites in addition to Pictured Rocks ...
Upper Peninsula: Ice conditions remain solid in the region due to colder temperatures. Ice anglers are catching fish though success varied from day to day. Ice can be found on the Great Lakes though there are areas that are compromised due to wind and current. Use extreme caution near the edge ...
Upper Peninsula Keweenaw Bay: Anglers caught lake trout, splake, coho, brown trout, whitefish and herring. Most of the whitefish were small. Those targeting smelt and burbot were fishing after dark, but no catches were reported. A couple burbot were caught during the day. With warmer weather ...
The first day of March seemed to completely fulfill the beginning of that well-known cliche about the month: “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Writing the first half of this old saying in my journal last Sunday was a bit trite, but completely irresistible as winds howled, clouds filled the ...
For me, there’s no shortage of things to love about secondhand items. There’s the mysteries, the stories, the joyful coincidence of the perfect object somehow finding its way to you, the chance to give something another use, a new life. And whether an item comes from a thrift store, a yard ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Christie’s Chronicles is a new monthly column by Journal Staff Writer Christie Mastric that will run the last weekend of each month. At first I balked about naming my column Christie’s Chronicles, as I realize that alliteration is overused in literature. But that’s what ...
MARQUETTE — Local book lovers: Make note of this. The Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association has announced the Second Annual U.P. Notable Books List. UPPAA Publications Chairman Mikel Classen of Sault Ste. Marie initiated the list as a response to the lack of representation ...
MARQUETTE — February is Career Technical Education month, and the annual publication that details related opportunities in Marquette and Alger counties has transitioned from a print to a digital format in its seventh year, Northern Michigan University announced. The online CTE Magazine ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part series. Part one was published in the Feb. 13-14 weekend edition of The Mining Journal. I sat anxiously in the waiting room before my first surgery, clutching my mom’s hand as my tiny legs swayed under the chair, my toes unable to touch the ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will be published in the Feb. 20-21 weekend edition of The Mining Journal. I was born two months early, exactly on the date of my mother’s 25th birthday. As a premature baby I spent six weeks in the NICU enduring health ...
MUNISING — A summer work opportunity is available for area young people through the Youth Conservation Corps program at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Youth between the ages of 15 and 18 may apply for the YCC program. There are no income restrictions for this employment ...
If you want to freshen up your kitchen, look no further than Grandma’s old casserole dishes. Vintage kitchenware is back in style — pieces from the mid-20th century painted with flowers, bright colors, and specific functions, such as bracketed chip and dip bowls or four-piece ...
How are experts tracking variants of the coronavirus? ---------------------------- Scientists are scanning virus samples taken from infected people to look for mutations, through a process called genome sequencing. It’s the same method researchers have been using for years to study ...
If a candle is burning in a dark room, we don’t see the darkness, we see the light. Perhaps that’s why candles have become such a popular decor element over the course of the pandemic. Little lights you can place anywhere, candles can make a room feel cozy and ...
ASK THE AP -------------- Which COVID-19 tests are required for international travel? -------------- It depends on where you’re going. In an effort to limit the spread of new coronavirus variants, many countries require incoming travelers to show a recent negative test. The U.S., ...
Serving as gateway communities on either side of the Marquette-Baraga county line, Michigamme and Three Lakes are places tied indelibly to the waters of peaceful and picturesque inland lakes. This is a land of shoreline cottages, pontoon and fishing boats, swimmers, anglers, campers, ...
Houghton and Keweenaw counties exhibit a vast historical mining heritage and unmistakable exquisite beauty fanned out from the west to the northeast over what is commonly referred to as the “Copper Country.” The copper mining tradition here is displayed prominently in the holdings of the ...
Across southern portions of Schoolcraft and Delta counties, U.S. 2 skirts the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline, providing access to a range of places to explore for everyone from campers and birdwatchers to boaters, history buffs and anglers. The city of Manistique, the county seat in ...
If you’ve ever pictured yourself riding up a highway along some beautiful windswept coastline, to the top of a mountain with a commanding view, then you may well enjoy the magnificent beauty of the Keweenaw Peninsula. From just outside Mass City in Ontonagon County, M-26 winds north through ...
By NANCY SARNOFF Houston Chronicle AP Member Exchange HOUSTON (AP) — On a recent Friday morning Sam Scott walked through his house for the last time. The Houston Chronicle reports he grabbed a dust mask from his car and entered through the open garage. The door had buckled during ...
Those of us with outdoor-loving pets know the downside to all that freewheeling frolic: muddy paws, tangled fur and often much worse. Animal behavior experts have many theories on why some dogs roll in noxious odors. Some researchers posit that getting one’s neck into a smell is an ...
NEW YORK — The wattage in The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” wasn’t strong enough to compete at the Grammys – but the song isn’t the only electrifying No. 1 hit that the Recording Academy snubbed. The Weeknd joins an exclusive club of songs that were crowned biggest hit of the year ...
=ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World in Florida turns 50 in October. To help celebrate, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will be wearing flashier threads and iconic structures such as the Cinderella Castle and the golf-ball-like Spaceship Earth are getting new lighting, Disney officials said ...
The year is 2021. A frightened, angry crowd lines up outside a medical center, desperate for a cure for a terrible virus. “He pushed in front!” someone shouts. Talk about timing. When he began making “Little Fish,” an intimate and affecting romance in a sci-fi setting, director Chad ...
There’s a kitchen-sink full of Serious Drama Cliches in the new Justin Timberlake film “Palmer,” about a high school football star turned convict who must help the young gender fluid boy with the addict mom next door while also trying to regain his footing in his small Louisiana hometown. ...