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EGLE tours Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority sites

NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy joined state and local partners at the Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority Tuesday for tours of their Material Recovery Facility and Reverse Osmosis Treatment Plant, as well as to announce that ...

New Isle Royale Heritage Alliance launched

ISLE ROYALE — National Park Service officials have announced the launch of the Isle Royale Heritage Alliance, a new effort to advance coordinated protection and improvement of Isle Royale National Park’s historic structures—approximately 90 cabins, 19 fishery buildings and four ...

Marquette landlord fined over $32,000 by Michigan Civil Rights Commission

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a ruling on Monday in a case between Marquette landlord Jeffrey Cornock of Cornock Rental Properties and former tenant Kaylee Franz. The case was over Cornock denying Franz’s request for a reasonable accommodation to have an Emotional Support Animal on the premises due to her disability, failing to renew a tenant’s lease because of her disability and retaliating against the tenant because she engaged in a protected activity under Michigan’s Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act. According to a statement released by ...

Local nurse gets delayed sentence in morphine case

ESCANABA — A registered nurse accused of stealing morphine from Christian Park Village, an assisted living facility where she was previously employed, appeared in Delta County's 47th Circuit Court on Monday to discuss the terms of her delayed sentence. In May, Jenna Leigh Furmanski pleaded ...

Improvements underway on West Washington Street

MARQUETTE — West Washington Street in downtown Marquette this week is undergoing a street improvement project including roadway milling, asphalt paving and structure adjustments between Third and Fourth streets. As part of the work, that block of West Washington Street has been closed to ...