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‘Fur’-ever home
Front Page News
By BUD SARGENT Journal Managing Editor MARQUETTE — What’s as long as one’s arms are spread wide, furry and has a wet nose? If you an employee or volunteer at the Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter, better known as UPAWS, that brief description might apply to any ...
Resurrected DARE program has successful first year
Local
ESCANABA — 75 fifth-grade students graduated from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program on Friday at the Escanaba Upper Elementary School, the second graduating class for the program this school year. Another 75 student graduated in December, the first graduating class in ...
What to know about the trial of an ex-Michigan officer charged in the killing of a Black motorist
Michigan News
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The trial of a former Michigan police officer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a 26-year-old Black man is set to begin in Grand Rapids, three years after the case sparked weeks of protest and national outrage. Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese immigrant ...
DNR temporarily closes boating access site at Arfelin Lake
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MARQUETTE — Spring snowmelt and flooding have forced the temporary emergency closure of the Arfelin Lake Boating Access Site in Marquette County until road repairs can be made. Culverts and the dirt access road have failed, and water is moving swiftly. A pickup truck became stuck when a ...
Tech holds commencement Saturday
Local
HOUGHTON — Saturday with clear sunny skies, signaling a bright future for the more than 930 Michigan Tech undergraduates who received their college degrees at the 2025 Undergraduate Spring Commencement. The ceremony took place at the Student Development Complex in the John ManInnes Student ...