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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 ...

Investigation in Massey death to continue

MARQUETTE — The greater Marquette community remains stunned in the several days since the body of Trenton Massey was located submerged in the water of the Lower Harbor, north of the Shiras Dock. According to the Marquette Police Department's Capt. Chris Aldrich, Massey's body was found at ...