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Soo business cleans up illegally dumped tires

KINROSS — The small mountain of old, worn out tires illegally dumped in the woods and found several weeks ago near Chippewa County’s Kinross off M-80 almost certainly were put there by someone associated with a commercial enterprise. That’s the conclusion of the owner of U.P. Tire of ...

KBIC distributes gaming revenue

BARAGA— The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community announced the distribution of its 2% gaming revenue allocations for the period of October 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025. A total of $348,910.12 was awarded to governmental agencies in both Baraga and Marquette County. “The Keweenaw Bay Indian ...

Healing, joy and connection

MARQUETTE — The Lullaby Project, a program out of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, is coming to Marquette. The international project’s aim is to pair parents and caregivers with professional musicians to write, perform, and record lullabies for their children, in doing so supporting ...

Smoke expected to lift in northern Michigan, but more could be on the way

By IZZY ROSS Michigan Advance Canadian wildfire smoke that blew into the Great Lakes region is expected to clear from northern Michigan this weekend — at least for now. The Michigan Air Quality Division said Thursday morning that the heavy smoke across the Upper Peninsula was already ...

One dead in Marinette County UTV crash

By RANDY CROUCH Journal City Editor MARQUETTE — An 18-year-old Menomonee Falls man was killed Saturday as the result of a UTV crash. According to Marinette County Sheriff Randy Miller, on Saturday at 4:46 p.m. Marinette County Dispatch received a report of a single UTV crash in the ...

VA offers text check-ins

MARQUETTE – The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain is offering Early Alert, a free, confidential and voluntary resource that checks in with veterans once a week via text message. Check-ins involve general questions about sleep, physical health, relationships and financial ...