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Monday: In Business | VIEW ALL

News from the Greater Munising area: Night life in Munising

Whether you’re looking for something fun to do after a sunset cruise or dining out at one of Munising’s fine establishments, the little town is home to craft breweries, bars and a beautiful venue space where live music and entertainment can be enjoyed year-round in the heart of ...

Founders of color and banking collapse

In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members. Questions flowed as the bank’s financial status worsened. Some desperately sought ...

Alliances make for stronger organizations

Coordinating services and offerings at a chamber of commerce can be a daunting task with a limited staff. Since the start in 2010, the Greater Ishpeming-Negaunee Area Chamber of Commerce serves the western end of Marquette County and currently maintains over 210 members. The variety of needs ...

Tuesday: Health | VIEW ALL

Health matters

How well do you think? Seems a strange question perhaps, but scientists are concerned with aging and the consequences thereof. With our aging population come many health problems; time is unkind to the human body, the nervous system included. It should be obvious to most, the brain is an ...

Boating access grants seek to educate

LANSING — The Great Lakes Commission is accepting proposals to support in-person outreach and voluntary watercraft inspections in coordination with this year’s regional Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz. The commission anticipates up to $85,000 in Great Lakes Restoration ...

Urology pearls

In Haifa’s downtown, at the foot of Mount Carmel, there are two falafel shops across the road from one another. One is nicknamed The Elders, the other The Sons. The road is so narrow that the owners can almost touch each other. They can watch their opposing falafel-maker and measure the ...

Talk with the Doc: March is Irish American Heritage Month

The U.S. Congress first named the month of March as Irish American Heritage Month in 1991 and the president issued a proclamation for this to be recognized in March of every year in the future. It is estimated that there are approximately 32 million USA residents who claim to have Irish ...

Wednesday: Learning | VIEW ALL

Environmental training to be offered

SUTTONS BAY — Educators around the Great Lakes have an opportunity to learn how to connect their students to their local watershed through the Great Lakes Watershed Field Course. The Inland Seas Education Association offers the course at no cost and will take place Aug, 8-11 in downstate ...

More cemeteries offering green burials, recreational space

MARQUETTE — Burial after death is going through a rebirth. Increasingly, individuals are interested in cemeteries that offer green burial service, said Wendy Fry, a landscape architect in Ann Arbor who specializes in designing cemeteries. Michigan has 14 of them, with plans for more. ...

NMU now operating AIS

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University has added an Automatic Identification System receiving station to the university’s Mount Mesnard tower in south Marquette as a safety tool to help boaters detect marine traffic they are likely to encounter. Since the tower was already being used ...

Two NMU students named Presidential Management Fellows

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University graduate students Michael Woodworth and Amy Munes were recently selected as Presidential Management Fellows, a prestigious program that partners early-career professionals with U.S. federal agencies to make a difference in government and impact their ...

Thursday: Boomers & Beyond | VIEW ALL

New Anthony Fauci documentary on PBS covers a career of crises

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK — There’s a moment in the new PBS documentary about Dr. Anthony Fauci when a protester holds up a handmade sign reading, “Dr. Fauci, You Are Killing Us.” It says something about Fauci that it’s not initially clear when that sign ...

Beloved and debated: French bulldog becomes top US dog breed

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three decades, the U.S. has a new favorite dog breed, according to the American Kennel Club. Adorable in some eyes, deplorable in others, the sturdy, push-faced, perky-eared, world-weary-looking and distinctively droll French bulldog became the ...

Wandering risk more dangerous in winter

SOUTHFIELD — The “sundowning” confusion that increases during the winter months in individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias can also lead to a higher risk of wandering and getting lost. “Wandering is dangerous at any time of the year, but especially during the ...

Fond remembrances for Jimmy Carter after former president enters hospice

By JEFF MARTIN and MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ATLANTA — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he ...

Friday: Outdoors | VIEW ALL

The best and worst of the season

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs, kick my legs to crash it off, say ‘Ok, I’ve had enough, what else can you show me,’” – Bob Dylan I arrived at the window feeling kind of ambivalent about the scene I expected to see. I knew there would be more than a foot of snow still covering the ...

What’s Flying: Birds prepare for spring despite winter storm

“Life needs to be like a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs. Otherwise, it’s not exciting.” - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr Feels like the roller coaster just too that big dive and everyone knows the brakes don’t work. In another winter with temperatures going up and down like a kid on a ...

Women make their mark in fisheries research

By CASEY WARNER Michigan Department of Natural Resources MARQUETTE — As Women’s History Month continues, it’s a great time to celebrate women who are making history in the field of science. While women remain underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) ...

Gwinn Seed Library is open to everyone

GWINN — Forsyth Township Public Library has provided access to seed packets for the community for over a year now. These seeds not only help get people interested in gardening but help with food security in the area. Steve Finley has worked with Transition Marquette, Queen City Seed ...

Saturday: Weekend | VIEW ALL

Christie’s Chronicles: These are a few of my favorite things

I don’t care how much you feel at home in an area or how long you’ve lived there. Some spots will hold more of an attraction than others. Take me, for instance. I love a lot of places in Marquette County and other regions in the Upper Peninsula, but Chocolay Township holds a special place ...

Last Sherlock Holmes work included in 2023 public domain debuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective — which has even ensnared Enola Holmes — will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights ...

K-pop star among 8 to join Japan tycoon’s moon trip

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P will be among eight people who will join him on a flight around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship in the coming years. The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, buying all the seats on the ...

‘The Guardian’ features research of NMU professor

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University biology Professor Neil Cumberlidge has collaborated on a Sierra Leone expedition that located two land-dwelling crab species ”lost to science” and feared to be extinct. For one, last spotted 225 years ago, the only clue was a ...

Sunday: Our Youth | VIEW ALL

Dandelion Cottage Award winners announced

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association is extremely pleased to announce the winners of the Sixth Annual Dandelion Cottage Award. The award recognizes U.P. student short story writers of excellence in grades 5 through 12. The Dandelion Cottage ...

Studying Feminist Art History in New York City

By LILY DIXON 8-18 Media MARQUETTE — Zoë Buckman was wearing a blue page boy cap along with a red and green top and a dozen necklaces. She somehow made it all work, and she absolutely rocked it. I had seen her nontraditional artwork online, but I never imagined I would meet her or tour ...

Survey suggests little progress in U.S. teen vaping

By MIKE STOBBE and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press NEW YORK — The latest government study on teen vaping suggests there's been little progress in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of kids. The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14% saying they had done so ...

Marquette native gets fellowship for research in Rwanda

MARQUETTE — Chloe Hale of Marquette has been awarded the $25,000 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship. A University of Michigan double major in political science and social theory in practice, Hale will spend a year in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital and largest city, to explore the theory that health ...

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Gardens bloom at big flower show in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Upon entering the Philadelphia Flower Show space at the Pennsylvania Convention Center last week, I was entranced by a forest of stunning orchids suspended from the ceiling above the color-changing entrance garden. The display, titled “FLORASTRUCK,” greeted visitors back ...

Latin worth learning for positively identifying what’s in your garden

If you’ve been thumbing through a gardening catalog or shopping at a nursery, you’ve likely noticed two names assigned to each plant, a common name and a botanical name, the latter of which might read like a sort of pretentious, unpronounceable gibberish. That’s botanical Latin, and its ...

Gas tank getaways | VIEW ALL

Michigamme & Three Lakes area: Gateways to abundant waters

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, ...

Copper Country adventure

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 ...

Summertime on the southern shoreline

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 ...

Rest, relax & refresh

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 ...

Saturday: Food & Drink | VIEW ALL

‘Do-not-eat’

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in their state. Industry ...

Open for business

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s hospitality management program is preparing to open its new student-operated restaurant, tentatively named the NMU Training Kitchen, each Wednesday evening through April 19. Community members can enjoy fixed-price, four-course ...

Borsch without a ‘t’: Kyiv chef uses food to reclaim culture

By J.M. HIRSCH Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine— Don’t tell Ievgen Klopotenko that borsch is just food. For him, that bowl of beet-and-meat soup is the embodiment of everything Ukraine is fighting for. “Food is a powerful social instrument by which you can unite or divide a ...

Fishes, Witches and Dishes at Strega Nonna

NEGAUNEE — A new restaurant and bar is coming soon to Negaunee. Strega Nonna will host a multi-course dinner event to prepare for its upcoming grand opening March 9. According to Strega Nonna’s Facebook page, the dinner is inspired by the staff who have been working to renovate, plan and ...

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Nightlife

Today 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Dano Keller at Blackrocks Brewery, Marquette 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring open mic and jam with Warren Hantz and Joe Patrick at Flanigan’s, Marquette Wednesday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring open mic at Blackrocks ...

New this week: ‘Top Gun,’ Lana Del Rey and ‘Rabbit Hole’

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving this week. Do you have what it takes to be a country music’s next big star? Then tune into Apple TV+’s “My Kind of Country,” in which Jimmie Allen, Mickey ...

New ‘Shazam!’ has more everything, but less charm

Sequels, by nature, are more. Whatever the original had, just add more, the rule seems to be. Even more words in the title — how often is a sequel’s title shorter than the original? And so, exactly four years after the original DC superhero pic “Shazam!” surprised with its clever ...

NMU alumnus practices and teaches blacksmithing

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University 1997 alumnus Sam Laturi describes his craft of blacksmithing as “a spiritual journey, combining the four ancient elements to make objects of art and function.” The Iron River native is in his 25th year of shaping steel, and said he enjoys the ...