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U.P. legislators propose veteran’s cemetery

MARQUETTE — Last week, Upper Peninsula state Reps. Dave Prestin, Greg Markkanen and Karl Bohnak, all members of the Republican Party, proposed legislation which would sponsor the creation of a veterans’ cemetery in the Upper Peninsula. House Bill 5843 of 2026 was introduced by Prestin and ...

Gwinn contractor sentenced

MARQUETTE — On Monday, Michael Sivula, a contractor from Gwinn, was found guilty of 11 total charges over seven cases. The charges included counts of false pretenses of over $1,000 but less than $20,000 and using a computer to commit a crime, with a habitual offender notice attached to ...

Stephen Adamini dies

MARQUETTE — Stephen Adamini, longtime Democrat and member of the Marquette County Board of Commissioners who resigned the position in late March citing, among other things, health, has died. According to multiple reports including the Office of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Adamini, 81, died ...

Michigan prisons ‘in a death spiral’ as officer vacancies, overtime pile up

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. MARQUETTE — Nick Marco left his job as a corrections officer at a maximum security Upper Peninsula prison after being stabbed by an ...