MARQUETTE — Republican Senatorial candidate Mike Rogers visited Marquette Thursday morning as part of a longer campaign bus tour of the Upper Peninsula. The event was held at the Honorable Distillery in downtown Marquette, and attracted a crowd of a few dozen supporters. “Mike’s out ...
MARQUETTE — On Saturday, Marquette County resident Margaret Brumm will host a “Cigarette Butt Recycle Buy Back Event” sponsored by Mark Hangen. The event takes place from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at 404 E. Magnetic St., Marquette. It aims to clean up litter and rewards volunteers for the volume ...
MUNISING — A historic lighthouse that has stood along the shores of Lake Superior for more than 150 years has received a new lease on life thanks to a three-week preservation effort involving volunteers from across the country, according to information provided by the U.S. Forest ...
MARQUETTE — After months of work, the Marquette County Master Plan is available for public review. The plan is available at mqtcoplan.org, and the county will be accepting comments and questions until Dec. 2. The 74-page document is an update to the 2021 Master Plan rewrite, which sought to determine what residents and County Planning staff wanted the County to be like in the year 2040. “This plan is a five-year update to that plan,” reads the Introduction of the Master Plan draft. “The scope is more limited, but aims to check in on the progress we have made as a county so ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board of Commissioners has released an announcement stating that they will be holding a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 for a Tyler Technologies CAD demonstration. The meeting will be held in the commission chambers at the Marquette County Court House, room #231. The board is currently weighing the decision of whether to switch the County’s 911 dispatch system to Motorola Solutions. The other U.P. counties, as well as the State Police, all utilize the Tyler Technologies system and there has been community concern over whether utilizing a ...
