MARQUETTE — The vinyl revival made an appearance on North Third Street Thursday when Vintage Vinyl set up shop at the Emporium in the first of a four-day sale. Hundreds of people packed into the Emporium at 816 N. Third St., to check out what Vintage Vinyl had to offer in the way of not ...
ST. IGNACE — An apparent verbal altercation between a pair of 18-year-olds ended with one of them stabbing the other at a Moran Township location, according to the Michigan State Police. A suspect is in custody following an investigation into the stabbing that took place Friday, Lt. Ben Eckola, Eighth District public information officer, said in a written statement. Eckola said on Friday, the state police post in St. Ignace responded to a report in Moran Township that an 18-year-old male had been stabbed by another 18-year-old male following a verbal altercation. The victim, who was ...
ISHPEMING — Writer Sidney Sheldon once said, “Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.” One West Ishpeming teen has sought to provide that fuel to her ...
MARQUETTE — On Wednesday, the city of Marquette released a survey to residents as part of the creation of its sustainable tourism plan. The plan, once it’s created, will address “how to keep what's good about tourism, deal with what's hard about it, protect the places we love, and make sure it works for the people who live here year-round,” according to a post on the city’s Facebook page. The survey is anonymous, and addresses questions such as overall feelings about tourism, benefits and drawbacks of tourism and support for various hypothetical tourism management plans, ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette residents are invited and encouraged to participate in the community wide “Trash to Treasure weekend” running from Sept. 11-13. “The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for the recycling of reusable household items such as furniture, lamps, electronics and other working household items,” reads a news release. “The program is designed to increase awareness of recycling by creating an alternative means of reusing items that would otherwise end up in the landfill.” The guidelines are as follows: Residents can place reusable/serviceable items in ...
MARQUETTE — On Monday, the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office’s special operations division was dispatched to an ORV dirt bike accident on Route C in Champion Township after receiving a report that a 40-year-old man was unconscious on the trail. Deputies found two victims at the scene — a 40-year-old Ishpeming man and a 44-year-old Ishpeming man — who were riding dirt bikes together and were headed eastbound on Route C when the two bikes collided, causing both riders to lose control and crash. Both men sustained minor injuries in the collision and were transported by EMS to ...
