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Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival set for July 17-19

MARQUETTE — The 46th annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival is set for July 17-19 at Marquette’s Tourist Park. The event website states “The Hiawatha Festival is the only event of its size and scope in (the) Upper Peninsula. Without Hiawatha, local performers and fans would have to ...

Miners Falls Trail to temporarily close

MUNISING — The Miners Falls Trail within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore will be temporarily closed to all visitors from June 23-25. Contractors will be conducting soil boring near the upper and lower viewing platforms to inform design plans for a new stair structure, anticipated to be ...

Marquette City Commission passes e-bike ordinance

MARQUETTE — At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Marquette City Commission, the commission voted unanimously to pass an ordinance which would allow electric mobility devices not greater than 750 watts on the multi-use path, ban reckless riding, and ban the use of mobility devices on sidewalks ...

Freedom Monument installed at Harlow Park

MARQUETTE — The "Freedom Monument" was successfully installed recently at the Marquette Veterans Memorial Mall in Harlow Park. Etched with excerpts of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the monument serves as an educational landmark and functional ...

Fatal motorcycle crash in Marinette County

MARINETTE, Wisconsin — Marinette County Sheriff Randy Miller reports that at 12:54 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, Marinette County Dispatch was notified of a single motorcycle crash that happened on County Highway Z near Fur Farm Drive in the Town of Beecher. The caller, who was an off-duty ...