Calumet standoff ends peacefully
CALUMET TOWNSHIP — An armed standoff lasting several hours Tuesday ended with one person taken into custody. On Wednesday, 40-year-old Andrey Vladimirovich Petrov, appeared in Houghton County 97th District Court. Petrov is charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting/obstructing. He ...
Residents warned of risks from recreational nitrous oxide
MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is warning residents about the growing misuse of recreational nitrous oxide, a substance commonly known as “laughing gas,” “whippets,” “balloons,” “Galaxy Gas” or “NOS.” Nitrous oxide intoxication can ...
Rock River Township Planning Commission recommends zoning issue go to a vote of people
ROCK RIVER TOWNSHIP — Rock River Township has recently been receiving state-wide attention for a proposal to repeal its zoning ordinance. A nearly 5-hour-long meeting of the Rock River Township Planning Commission ended Monday night with the commission voting to recommend that the Rock River Board of Trustees send the issue to the township’s voters as a ballot measure. The Board of Trustees was set to Tuesday night. Well over 50 people packed the Rock River Township Hall, in a township with a population of approximately 1,200. The meeting’s original agenda, which included votes on ...
Law Enforcement Torch Run heads through Marquette area
MARQUETTE — The Law Enforcement Torch Run made its way through the Marquette area on Tuesday morning. “The Law Enforcement Torch Run is the single largest grassroots fundraising effort for Special Olympics International,” reads the Special Olympics of Michigan website. “The two main ...
Brand spanking-new truck
GWINN — The Forsyth Township Fire Department has received a new fire truck that it had ordered from a manufacturer in Wisconsin. More than two years of planning and building went into the pumper specially made for the Gwinn-based department. The cost was $850,000, financed entirely through ...