MARQUETTE — The Marquette Guts Frisbee Association has announced the 50th anniversary of the U.S National Guts Frisbee Tournament will be held in Marquette at Tourist Park Aug. 1-2. Guts is a high-speed game of catch between two teams of five competitors standing 14 meters apart. Players ...
HARVEY — On Monday at approximately 8:34 a.m., Chocolay Township Police Department officers were called to the scene of a single vehicle accident on M-28 near the Alger County line. Initial reports stated that the driver was trapped in the vehicle and that the vehicle may have been smoking. Quick acting citizens were able to get the driver out of the truck and to a safe location. An investigation showed that the truck was traveling east-bound on M-28 and left the roadway to the south. The truck struck a large tree, which caused the truck to stop abruptly. The driver was ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Search and Rescue team was called out late Sunday after receiving a report of a missing woman in the area of the Hogsback Recreation Area. According to the Marquette County Sheriff's Office, a 26-year-old Marquette woman, who had been hiking in the area of Hogsback at around 8:55 p.m. Sunday, became disoriented while running and was unable to find her way back to the parking lot. A sheriff's office press release details that after many unsuccessful attempts to contact someone via cell phone, contact was made and 911 emergency calls were connected. ...
30 years ago MARQUETTE – The Marquette Community Foundation handed out $60,991 in grants during 1995, a press release on the organization’s annual report said. A 2,000 grant went to the Marquette Rotary West Foundation and benefited the community playground at the Mattson Lower Harbor Park. Other recipients included Marquette/Alger Young Authors, Superior String Alliance, Northern Lights Youth for Christ and a variety of other local groups that requested a grant. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Northern Michigan University’s record summer enrollment of 1,890 students includes ...
HOUGHTON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, is requesting beach traffic park at a nearby pavilion during its $1.8 million critical infrastructure modifications to the breakwater at the Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance near Houghton. Ongoing construction began in late ...
