NEWBERRY — The Michigan Department of Transportation has announced the recipients for the 2024 Michigan Rail Enhancement Grant Program that will invest $16 million toward freight rail projects across Michiganaccording to an MDOT news release.
The 10 projects, one of which is located in Luce ...
ISHPEMING — Partridge Creek Farm has announced the addition of two new directors to their staff this past month: Sara Johnson, executive director, and Mary Antonia Andronis, director of programs and partnerships, according to a company news release.
Dan Perkins, founder and board member of ...
MENOMINEE — After six months of operations, the Higher Love Menominee location is ready to offer the full in-store customer experience, serving all the freshest flower a la carte, including their own line of organic strains.
Higher Love will bring it’s trademark “Deli Style” service ...
Winter is a time that we shine in the Upper Peninsula. From skiing, snowshoeing, and snowboarding to ice caves, sled dogs, and outhouse races, we embrace winter unlike anyone else. Our embrace of a season only tolerated by many others brings significant economic benefits. From filling hotel ...
As rural hospitals continue to struggle financially, a new type of hospital is slowly taking root, especially in the Southeast.
Rural emergency hospitals receive more than $3 million in federal funding a year and higher Medicare reimbursements in exchange for closing all inpatient beds and ...
What follows is a common scenario: an individual experiences pain from the bottom of their heel. They mention it to their primary care provider who sends them for x-rays, an effective means of evaluating osseous tissue, i.e. bone. Examining the radiographs, the PCP finds a large spike of bone ...
American healthcare is a system in crisis. Many Americans have no health insurance and are one injury away from homelessness. Debts resulting from medical care too often lead to bankruptcy or worse. And though there are a multitude of factors at play, many experts believe it is due in part to ...
March is designated as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. It is important for all of us to be aware that colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of death from cancer in the United States.
It has been reported that over the last decade, the number of new colorectal cancer cases in the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of delays and technical hiccups, some colleges and universities have started to receive federal data they need to put together financial aid offers for incoming students, the Biden administration said Monday.
The Education Department says it sent a first batch ...
LANSING — The presidents of Michigan’s largest private colleges and universities are making more than ever as faculty salaries stall and tuition climbs, according to a newly released analysis.
The data comes from a report published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, which cites the ...
MARQUETTE — A new college scholarship will be available beginning this year from the Alger Regional Community Foundation.
The scholarship is in memory of Barbara (Golenda) Forsberg who graduated from Mather High School in 1949. Seniors at Munising, Superior Central and Grand Marais Public ...
MARQUETTE — Ten public universities including Northern Michigan University are now admitting any in-state students who graduate from high school with a 3.0 GPA or higher.
The policy, announced in September, has already led to an increase in applications at some campuses.
The initiative, ...
ISHPEMING — There will be bingo at the Ishpeming VFW on Sunday, March 19. Doors open at noon. There will be sandwiches, snacks and beverages available. There is a handicapped entrance in the back of the building.
MARQUETTE — Silver Creek Church and Silver Creek Thrift, located at 219 Silver Creek Road in Harvey, are partnering with Feeding America West Michigan to host a Feeding America Mobile Food Pantry on March 14.
Distribution of food will begin at 10 a.m. and continue while supplies last or ...
LANSING — Two new Metro Detroit senior centers are focused on older LGBTQ+ residents, filling what advocates say is a need for services they otherwise may not get.
The staff and programming at the new centers are primarily funded by MiGen, a Ferndale nonprofit that supports older LGBTQ+ ...
A growing number of older adults are in debt in retirement, according to the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve. Among people ages 65 to 74, the share with debt rose to 65% in 2022, up from 50% in 1989 (the first time this question was asked). For people 75 and over, 53% ...
LANSING — The turtles had a long journey ahead.
They fought for 45 miles against the strong Kalamazoo River current. They left the river and walked up and over a dam blocking their path. They traversed water so shallow their shells likely stuck out of it.
The destination? Their home 10 ...
The afternoon was warming steadily as I turned off the blacktop onto a road slicked with a mire of mud, gravel and melting snow.
I likened that mixture to what I felt my brain had become after too many winter days spent languishing inside a well-insulated house — full of melting ice cream ...
MARQUETTE — Fish-leather purses and wallets may make their way into Great Lakes fashion with an initiative to use 100% of commercially caught fish by 2025.
One of the latest projects of a binational Great Lakes organization is to fully use the region’s whitefish, lake trout, yellow perch, ...
LONDON (AP) — Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery.
Scientists now think they have an idea, and it’s something not seen in other animals: a specialized voice box.
Experts say the discovery, while ...
By Ty Koski
Greater Ishpeming
Negaunee Chamber of
Commerce
Our first spotlight is Campfire Coffee, located in downtown Negaunee! We sat down with General Manager Allison Carpenter to talk about Iron Street construction and what’s coming soon to Campfire Coffee.
“The campfire is a ...
By Virginia Paulson
Negaunee Historical
Society
There hasn’t been a hotel in Negaunee for a number of years, but it wasn’t always that way. When. the founding of Negaunee came through the operations of the Jackson Iron Company and their discoveries of iron ore in the Teal Lake region. ...
By Journal Staff
ESCANABA — The largest trapping event in North America, the National Trappers Association Convention and Outdoor Show, will be July 27-29 at the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds in Escanaba.
Many legendary trappers from around the U.S. will sell their wares, giving ...
Twenty five years ago, a group of Marquette residents decided to make a boathouse on Lake Superior into a theater.
The first show to debut on that stage was an original musical written by Northern Michigan University professor and playwright Shelley Russell called ‘Beacon on the Rock.’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 — 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 ...
Tomatoes, garlic, chives, basil, parsley, thyme and sage have been permanent residents in my garden for ages. But every year, I experiment with new -– or new to me -- crops.
Many turn out to be transient, like the Instagram-worthy Voyager tomatoes that disappointed in the flavor department, ...
By Family Features
A beautiful landscape doesn’t happen on its own. You can help your lawn, trees and shrubs get off to a healthy growing season.
“Trees and shrubs add tremendous appeal to our urban home environments, but to thrive, particularly out of their natural world, they require ...
Growing a lush lawn in the desert can feel like a losing battle. With the proper care, the warm-season Bermuda, zoysia and bahia grasses can hold up fairly well during summer, but when the weather cools enough to actually enjoy those lawns, they transform into a dormant carpet of ...
I’ve had just about enough of winter and am itching to get my hands dirty. I can’t do that yet in my New York garden, but I have been distracting myself by growing microgreens and dwarf strawberries on the kitchen counter.
It will be another month before I bring out my seed-starting ...
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 ...
DEERBROOK, Wis. (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn’t need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There’s no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already hang beneath spiles in the trunks that have started dripping sap. And the ground is ...
With labor-intensive holiday meals out of the way, this week calls for ease — without sacrificing flavor. Which is why traybakes are the perfect antidote.
Only 15 minutes of active work and just one pan to clean are all you need to transform simple chicken and potatoes into a satisfying ...
SAYRE, Pennsylvania (AP) — In 2020, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics found that the average United States household wasted more than a third of all the food they purchased. That adds up to an annual estimated cost of $240 billion. Large gatherings with too many leftovers ...
By Susan Phare Boback
Special to the Journal
ISHPEMING—Christmas traditions affect us all differently. For me, the foods of my heritage bring the memories alive from those precious moments of childhood when grandparents, aunts & uncles and my parents were all here celebrating ...
LONDON — Kate Winslet is running things — on and off the set of her new TV show, “The Regime.”
In the HBO show, she plays Elena Vernham — also known as The Chancellor, the ruler of a fictional country in Europe, possibly near Poland. Winslet, who is also an executive producer on the ...
NEW YORK — Think of food and movies and your mind could quickly whip up a five-course meal. Maybe a few hard-boiled eggs, to start, from “Cool Hand Luke.” A side order of toast from “Five Easy Pieces,” followed by the soup from “Ratatouille.” A main course of octopus from ...
LAS VEGAS — Fans have been wondering for days whether Taylor Swift will make it to the Super Bowl next week to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs and, if so, how many times she’ll show up on TV during the game. They can speculate all they want, but they won’t be ...
Now that Hollywood is back at full production, 2024 is poised to be a great year at the movies.
After the billion-dollar box office from Barbie: The Movie, the 2023 movie year was a successful one. As usual, sequels and prequels dominate the 2024 release calendar. However, if Top Gun: ...