MARQUETTE — As part of its America 250 programming, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University, will present an event about the Upper Peninsula 9/11 oral history project with Anna Zimmer at 7 tonight. The event will be held in the Atrium of the Lydia M. ...
IRONWOOD — The Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Strategic Fund Board voted Tuesday to approve two grants related to Highland Copper’s Copperwood Mine project in Gogebic County near Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park — a $44.9 million Strategic Site Readiness Program ...
MARQUETTE — With Board of Trustee approval on Tuesday, Northern Michigan University entered an agreement to sell its Educational Access Network broadband service and infrastructure to Michigan Broadband Services. The transaction will be final pending approval by the Federal Communications ...
QUESTION: Who was the first European to land on soil that would eventually become Michigan? A) Father Jacques Marquette B) Etienne Brule C) Samuel de Champlain D) Louis Joliet ANSWER: B. Etienne Brule, in 1621.
MARQUETTE — A change in leadership was announced Tuesday at UP Health System-Marquette and Bell. Tonya Darner, who serves market chief executive officer, will depart that role effective Sept. 18. No reason was given for Darner’s departure, who has been the position for about 2 1/2 ...
60 years ago MUNISING — Five Grand Rapids skin divers have returned home after finding what they hope is a ship which sank in 1889 in Munising Bay with a cargo valued at $75,000. The quintet left for the Furniture City with miscellaneous ship’s fittings taken from the sunken steam-sail freighter, tentatively believed to be the Smits E. More, which went down in a storm carrying 350 kegs of whiskey and 150 barrels of high-grade silver ore. On Aug. 3, they plunged into the chilly waters at the mouth of the bay to find on their first dive the hulk of a 300-foot wood freighter, 106 feet ...
