MARQUETTE – The Superior Health Foundation concluded its Q1 Grant cycle on Wednesday, announcing $299,292 in funding distributed across seven grants to agencies serving the Upper Peninsula. The awards include $225,000 in U.P. Health Impact Grants across three projects addressing behavioral ...
GWINN — At 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, the Up North Lodge in Gwinn will be hosting a polar plunge event to raise money for the Special Olympics, organized by Plunge Michigan and Law Enforcement Torch Run. “We typically have over 100 people take the plunge,” said Carla White, ...
MARQUETTE — At the Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday night, commissioners unanimously approved funding to procure three jet refuelers, part of Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport’s transition to utilizing a county-run fixed-base operator. Assistant Airport Manager Anania Tekurio was present at the meeting to make a privileged comment requesting one 3,000-gallon jet-refueling truck and two 5,000-gallon jet-refueling trucks. Both trucks are brand new. Tekurio stated that both trucks would be available for use 60-days from the date of order confirmation, just ...
MARQUETTE — The past few Marquette County Board of Commissioners meetings have included lengthy public comments sections wherein residents have expressed concern about federal law enforcement and have requested that the commissioners draft a resolution addressing those concerns. At Tuesday ...
MARINETTE — Marinette County Sheriff Randy Miller reports on Feb. 25, Marinette County Sheriff’s Office detectives, with the assistance of the Marinette County Joint Special Response Team, executed a search warrant in the city of Peshtigo. The search warrant was executed as part of an ongoing investigation of Internet Crimes Against Children. The investigation began in January after detectives received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Detectives worked to identify a suspect. Following the execution of the search warrant, one suspect was taken ...
ESCANABA – The murder trial of Tavaris Jackson is officially underway in Delta County’s 47th Circuit Court after a jury was selected Tuesday morning. Jackson, 35, faces one count of open murder – a felony punishable by up to life in prison – in the death of 22-year-old Harley ...
