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RAISING THE ROOF

MARQUETTE — Marquette County Habitat for Humanity hosted a Raise the Roof two-day event on Nov. 22-23 in Ishpeming at its 114th new construction site. Thanks to its volunteers and staff, trusses and sheathing were placed over three-quarters of the roof in that two-day period. In late ...

Good Samaritan sought in return of missing wallet

MARQUETTE — On Thursday, a local couple mistakenly left a wallet full of valuables at a store and later learned it was turned into the police with everything accounted for. Cassandra and Brannon Smith, the latter being the wallet’s owner, took a trip to a local pharmacy in Marquette to ...

Signs of COVID-19 low across Upper Peninsula

ESCANABA — While the full effects of the holiday season won’t be known for several weeks, the amount of DNA from the virus responsible for COVID-19 in area wastewater has remained low in the Escanaba area this month. According to the Sentinel Wastewater Epidemiology Evaluation Project, a ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The ...

Bright Beginnings

MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette, in partnership with the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum, invites the community to join in celebrating the arrival of the new year at Bright Beginnings, a free and festive event at the Marquette Commons from 6-7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4. This ...