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Cedar River State Harbor / boating access construction project begins this week

CEDAR RIVER — An improvement project at the Cedar River State Harbor and Boating Access Site in Menominee County started Tuesday. Though the harbor and site will stay open during the work – which includes repairing and replacing the sidewalk along the seawall, replacing the fuel dock and ...

What’s Flying: There’s great beauty out there

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”— Henry Rollins And so, at last, September slides in from the wings to take center stage. After a rather spectacular summer, as another roller coaster season of ...

Sawyer awarded hangar repair grant

By Journal Staff K.I. SAWYER — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Hills, announced on Friday that the Department of Transportation will award Sawyer International Airport $2,700,120 to repair a hangar. This project is funded through the Federal Aviation ...

Marijuana facility moving along in Marquette Township

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Marquette Township Planning Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved special-use permits for medical and adult-use marijuana processors as well as a Class C marijuana grower, also for medical and adult-use recreational ...

Christie’s Chronicles; Churches close, but memories linger

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC, Journal Staff Writer It’s a good thing many, if not most, parishioners believe their churches are more than just brick and mortar. They represent all the good thoughts and deeds that sprung from the people who sat in their pews over the years. I have first-hand ...

A place of honor

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — A Tejon Indian Tribe flag has joined other Native American flags at the Whitman Commons at Northern Michigan University after being dedicated on Friday. The dedication was part of Soup ‘n’ Smudge, which April Lindala, a professor of ...