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UP Health System-Marquette hires Olson as behavioral medicine educator

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MARQUETTE — UP Health System – Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program has welcomed Dr. Marin Olson as its new behavioral medicine educator, continuing a legacy of education, wellness and patient-centered care established by her father, Dr. Ralph Olson, who served in the role for more than a decade. “Dr. Ralph Olson has been an integral part of our team over the years, helping train and support our residents in so many important areas—including interviewing skills, communication, mental health care, and physician wellness,” said program director, Dr. Suzanne Clarke. ...

Spanish Club sale today

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MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School Spanish Club is having a garage sale from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today at Singletrack Health, 107 W. Main St., Marquette, to help fund the 2026-27 exchange program. All items are donation or pay-what-you-can after noon. Here is a quote from Katelynn Jensen, Spanish teacher at Marquette Senior High School and MSHS Spanish Club advisor: "MSHS Spanish Club is gearing up for its fourth Costa Rica Exchange in the 2026-2027 school year. MSHS partners with Liceo Experimental Bilingüe de Pococí in Guápiles, Costa Rica, every two years for a cultural ...

Vinyl tradition attracts many

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MARQUETTE — The vinyl revival made an appearance on North Third Street Thursday when Vintage Vinyl set up shop at the Emporium in the first of a four-day sale. Hundreds of people packed into the Emporium at 816 N. Third St., to check out what Vintage Vinyl had to offer in the way of not ...

Marquette launches sustainable tourism survey

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MARQUETTE — On Wednesday, the city of Marquette released a survey to residents as part of the creation of its sustainable tourism plan. The plan, once it’s created, will address “how to keep what's good about tourism, deal with what's hard about it, protect the places we love, and make sure it works for the people who live here year-round,” according to a post on the city’s Facebook page. The survey is anonymous, and addresses questions such as overall feelings about tourism, benefits and drawbacks of tourism and support for various hypothetical tourism management plans, ...

Dirt bike collision in Champion Township results in minor injuries

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MARQUETTE — On Monday, the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office’s special operations division was dispatched to an ORV dirt bike accident on Route C in Champion Township after receiving a report that a 40-year-old man was unconscious on the trail. Deputies found two victims at the scene — a 40-year-old Ishpeming man and a 44-year-old Ishpeming man — who were riding dirt bikes together and were headed eastbound on Route C when the two bikes collided, causing both riders to lose control and crash. Both men sustained minor injuries in the collision and were transported by EMS to ...