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Pet licenses available online

MARQUETTE — Marquette city residents looking to license their dog or cat can now find the applications available online at the city’s website, along with instructions for completing the form correctly. Once completed, the application can be returned to the City Clerk’s office either by email or via postal mail or overnight drop box. Once received and processed, licensing documents will be mailed to applicants. Similarly, citizens are now able to submit an application for an off-leash park pass in the same manner. The city’s off-leash area is located in Tourist Park and is open ...

Contemplative sessions this month

MARQUETTE — Meditate Marquette Center for Meditation and Contemplative Practices is offering several contemplative practice sessions throughout December. A one-day virtual retreat for deepening personal practices is being offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Retreats are a time-honored tradition in meditation, spiritual, and religious practices as a method for deepening personal practices, deepening our connection to our best intentions, and deepening our spiritual connections. The retreat will be interspersed with sitting silently in community, walking and movement meditation, ...

Hawk release set for Saturday

MARQUETTE — The Chocolay Raptor Center has announced a young red-tailed hawk will be released back to the wild this Saturday. The release will take place at 1 p.m. in a field in L’Anse. The hawk was rescued just over a month ago, unable to fly in that area, according to the release from the raptor center. It was taken to Beth Maata, who has been doing raptor rehab for several years as an associate of the Chocolay Raptor Center, and now has her own permits. Exam revealed that the hawk had been shot; X-rays revealed several pellets still in the hawk’s body, with a damaged wing bone ...

Pandemic drives economy here, elsewhere

Special to the Journal MARQUETTE — Welcome to the COVID economy: Lumber prices and tent sales soared. Great Lakes shipping took a dive. Home sales were up. And energy sales shifted from manufacturing plants to home offices. Here is a sample ride of a segment of the Michigan economic roller coaster powered by the pandemic. Energy sales Consumers Energy links the virus to a 3% third-quarter drop in electricity sales across all customers. But the consequences of an economic slowdown are complex. Industrial and commercial sales dropped 4%, but sales to residential customers actually ...

NMU still ‘Lighting Up the Holidays’

Northern Michigan University will continue its annual “Lighting Up the Holidays” tradition in a revised virtual format. Beginning Tuesday, an event website will feature DIY ornament kits and festive coloring pages, virtual letters to Santa, downloadable images for photos with Santa and ...

Virtual tech help offered

MARQUETTE — Members of Northern Michigan University’s Student Cybersecurity Association will be available to help Peter White Public Library patrons with their personal technology devices from 5-6 p.m. every Tuesday in December through the Zoom app. This opportunity is for those wanting help with apps, laptops, e-readers, tablets, phones or other digital devices. Call the PWPL Reference Desk at 226-4312 or email refdesk@pwpl.info for the meeting link.