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UP Notable Book Club presents Q&A with Mikel B. Classen

CRYSTAL FALLS — The Upper Peninsula Notable Book Club: The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 61st event via Zoom is with Mikel B. Classen, "The Yooper History Hunter," "Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater Pirates" contains dozens of stories of robbery, kidnapping, and mayhem. Each story is well documented by newspaper accounts, meticulously restored photos and lithographs, and gripping first-person diaries recorded a hundred ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE — City employees and labor sympathizers marched around city hall Monday, protesting an apparently bitter contract dispute between city management and three employee bargaining units. Between 300 and 400 picketers ringed the block around city hall and the police station. Labor and management are far apart on several issues, including the size of wage increase, the benefits package and contract language, said Larry Linna, an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees spokesman. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — Students attending the 1967 summer ...

Squirrel mugs for the camera

MDOT announces nearly $500,000 grant for Marquette path extension, $900,000 grant for Munising Safe Routes to School project

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Transportation announced on Thursday that the city of Marquette would be receiving $482,864 in federal funds in the form of a Transportation Alternative Program grant for the extension of the Wilson Street multi-use path. “The Wilson Street multi-use ...

Heavy rain pelts city, area

MARQUETTE — A severe thunderstorm passed through the area and region Thursday afternoon, bringing heavy rain to Marquette and much of the central Upper Peninsula. The result was snarled traffic, city streets turned into small rivers and gutters inundated with several inches of ...

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