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8-18 Media: Not your standard trip across the ‘Mighty Mac’

Now that the school year has started and students have been thrust back into the monotonous routine that is school, I’ve begun to reflect on my summer and the events that took place during it. I put in some hours at my work, played a lot of tennis, spent a week visiting family in Lombard, ...

‘The fruits of their labor’

MARQUETTE — Father Marquette Catho­­­lic Academy middle schoolers started the year off by seeing the fruits of their labor from the spring school year. 5th through 8th-grade students spent their science classes on Sept. 9 harvesting, preparing, and eating the potatoes they planted before ...

MUCC magazine for kids wins 2021 Environmental Projects Award

LANSING — TRACKS Magazine was awarded the 2021 Environmental Projects Award by the Michigan Environmental Hall of Fame recently. Michigan United Conservation Clubs has published TRACKS Magazine since 1977, and it has reached millions of youth since its inception. Geared towards ...

8-18 Media: Is it Groundhog Day again for the Lions?

School is starting. We have just had the hottest summer that I can remember. Despite the heat, football players across the nation are hitting the gridiron. Football is really coming. The question right now is what are the Detroit Lions doing? The Detroit Lions have been “rebuilding” for ...

Taking a stand: Wildcats support girl’s lemonade enterprise

MARQUETTE — When 5-year-old Millie Gauthier fulfilled her wish of setting up a lemonade stand at her grandparents’ summer home in Marquette, not far from campus at the corner of Spruce and Albert Streets, two NMU football players were among her first customers. The Wildcats not only paid ...

Peter White Public Library September youth events

MARQUETTE — Peter White Public Library has announced its youth programming schedule for September: Outword Wednesday Sept. 1. 4-5 p.m. LGBTQIA youth and ally students in grades 7 to 12 are welcome. No admission charge. Masks required regardless of vaccination status at in-person youth programs. For more information or to check the status of this program, call 226-4321, email Amanda at apierce@pwpl.info, visit www.pwpl.info. Toddler Storytime Tuesdays and Thursdays Sept. 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30. 9:45-10:15 a.m. Peter White Public Library Great Room Ages 18 ...