IRON MOUNTAIN – Bay College has announced the return of Lunchtime Live! to the Iron Mountain campus for 2026. Following the successful expansion of the series from the Escanaba campus in 2025, three event dates have been scheduled for the upcoming year. Designed as a welcoming gathering of ...
L'ANSE — The Baraga County Shelter Home has announced that the domestic violence organization has been awarded a major grant to improve its emergency shelter facilities. BCSH has been operating the shelter home in L’Anse since 1984 as a safe space for women and their children fleeing intimate partner abuse. Lack of funding for routine maintenance and unexpected repairs has been an ongoing concern for decades. “Our existing funding streams are focused on delivery of services to survivors, with very little room for structural improvements or shelter repairs,” explained Executive ...
MARQUETTE – GasBuddy has released its 2026 Summer Travel Survey results and forecast, revealing that American road trip culture is showing resilience even as gas prices surge to levels not seen in years. GasBuddy forecasts the national average will reach $4.48 per gallon on Memorial Day, up sharply from $3.14 per gallon a year ago and could average $4.80 per gallon over the summer from Memorial Day through Labor Day, with the possibility of all-time record highs if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for a significant portion of the summer. Despite the price surge, 56% of Americans ...
MARQUETTE — A contractor hauling treated dewatered biosolids used as a soil amendment out to a field in Little Lake had a spill just outside the treatment plant on U.S. 41 Thursday morning, Mark O'Neill, director of Municipal Utilities, reported. In a written statement, O'Neill said the truck's tailgate was not properly secured and an estimated four cubic yards of biosolids spilled. A front end loader and tractor with a brush were used to collect the biosolids. A city street sweeper was then used for final clean up. No waterway was impacted. The Michigan Department of Energy and ...
AU TRAIN - The Michigan Department of Transportation invites the public to comment on the planned 2027 safety project on M-28 at Au Train Forest Lake Road in Au Train in Alger County. MDOT plans to widen the existing roadway to add a center left-turn lane at the intersection and improve drainage. To allow for grading and upgrades to the signal, the department is proposing to obtain a 0.012-acre permanent fee right of way on each of the southwest and southeast corners at the M-28/Au Train Forest Lake Road intersection. During the work, one lane will be maintained for vehicular traffic ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee VFW 3165, located at 208 Gold St. Negaunee, is inviting the public to its annual Memorial Day Parade, Memorial Services and open house on Monday, May 25. A parade will start promptly at 10 a.m. at the corner of Iron and Gold streets, continuing east to Pioneer Avenue and turning north to Main Street, traveling east to McKenzie Avenue then north to Case Street and traveling west down to the post office where the parade will end. Following the parade, all are invited to the Negaunee Cemetery where VFW Post 3165 and auxiliary will conduct its Memorial Service. A ...
