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Local high school student launches business directory

MARQUETTE — Anton Reinaas, a freshman at Marquette Senior High School, has launched a local online business directory called FindLocal906, designed to help people more easily find and patronize local businesses in the Upper Peninsula. The directory, which is ad-free and free to join for ...

Proposal seeks to forgive school closures caused by extreme weather

MARQUETTE – This academic year, school districts in the Upper Peninsula and Northern Lower Peninsula experienced severe winter weather, which forced many administrators to close far more often than expected. For example, the superintendent of Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools in Otsego ...

Elected officials field questions at NMU

MARQUETTE — On Friday evening at Northern Michigan University, the Turning Point USA club hosted Upper Peninsula state Reps. Parker Fairbairn, Dave Prestin, Karl Bohnak and Greg Markkanen, as well as state Sen. Ed McBroom, for a panel discussion and audience Q&A session. According to ...

The long history of indigenous in the UP

When the 13 colonies in the east began their push toward independence from Britain, Michigan was more than a half-century away from becoming a state and the people of the Upper Peninsula still primarily indigenous. To tell their history in the region, Northern Michigan University in 2019 ...