MARQUETTE — The Marquette chapter of the League of Women Voters will be hosting two public candidate forums for local primary elections next week. At 6 p.m. on July 8, a candidate forum for those running for Marquette County Commission will be held at the Marquette Township Community Center ...
MARQUETTE — On Thursday, the Marquette City Band opened its 2026 Summer Concert Series at Reynolds Recital Hall after the scheduled performance at the Marquette Commons had to be moved due to weather. Before the concert began, Tiina Marin, Manager of the City’s Arts and Culture Office, ...
FROM A NEWS RELEASE GLADSTONE — A 56-year-old Garden man has been arrested and arraigned on felony weapons, drug and related charges after Michigan State Police troopers seized dozens of firearms, ammunition, methamphetamine and other evidence during the execution of search warrants. The ...
MARQUETTE — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Congressional candidate Callie Barr recently held an event at Peter White Public Library on the future of Social Security. O’Malley served as the 17th commissioner of the Social Security Administration under President Joe Biden. ...
FROM A NEWS RELEASE NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — Marquette County Road 492 will be closed and detoured beginning July 6 as part of the Michigan Department of Transportation project converting the M-35/CR 492 intersection in Eagle Mills to a modern roundabout. CR 492 will be closed to through-traffic from the US-41/CR 492 intersection in Negaunee to just west of the M-35/CR 492 intersection, with traffic detoured onto US-41 to M-35. CR 492 will remain open to local traffic. The detour is expected to be in place for approximately three weeks. The work is part of the $6.2 million project to ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — For Henry Ford in the early 1900s, the Upper Peninsula wasn’t just a place to vacation, it offered opportunity and resources for his growing Ford Motor Company auto manufacturing operation. Ford, in turn, would put the U.P. — and Iron Mountain area, in particular — on ...
