NEGAUNEE – The city of Negaunee is the 2025 winner of the Michigan Municipal League’s Community Excellence Award. The Negaunee Downtown Enhancement Project marks the third community from the U.P. that has won the CEA, after the city of Ironwood in 2013 and the city of Houghton in ...
LANSING – Jeffrey Holden spends his summers knee-deep in dead moose. In his new book “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project” (Michigan State University Press, $24.95), Holden turns decades of volunteer field notes and short essays ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School honored two distinguished graduates - jazz musician Dan Trudell and higher-education policy professor Dr. Stephen DesJardins - at their annual Pendill Wall induction ceremony recently. The Pendill Wall of Excellence serves to honor graduates of MSHS ...
NEGAUNEE — The Marquette Regional History Center and the Michigan State University Extension held a joint hike through Old Towne on Thursday afternoon to teach about forest forensics. Anna Ellis, a Forestry and Natural Resources educator with the MSU Extension, led a group around the sights ...
MARQUETTE — Two people were rescued after their sailboat capsized on Lake Superior Thursday evening. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, two brothers were rescued from Lake Superior after their sail boat capsized and was damaged. They were sailing from Shot Point to Marquette’s Lower Harbor and back. ...
MARQUETTE — Pianist Jeffrey Biegel will be performing composer George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue," alongside two jazzy pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich, at his concert this upcoming Saturday. A renowned composer and musician, Biegel is an alumni of the famed Julliard School performing arts ...