MARQUETTE — The Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel invites all retired school personnel, including teachers and all support staff, to its spring meeting. The session will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, at the Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring St., ...
HARRIS — The Island Resort & Casino, has announced that the new Cedar Course (Kishki), a nine-hole layout, is set to open for preview play in July, with a full opening slated for 2027. The Cedar Course becomes the third course at the Upper Peninsula resort, joining the acclaimed ...
30 years ago NEGAUNEE – Today’s spring storm broke the record for all-time snowiest winter in Marquette County. “It’s official. We broke the record,” said meteorologist Greg Forrester with the National Weather Service in Negaunee Township. “It’s the snowiest we know of – of ...
For the past five years, the Marquette Regional History Center has sponsored a search for Native American trail marker trees in Marquette County. Many Indigenous peoples in North America bent trees into distinctive shapes when they were saplings, to convey specific messages. Most were used to ...
In 1972, local resident (and original co-host of “Finland Calling”) Eugene Sinervo published an amusing hand-drawn map of the United States that had the U.P. about the same size as the rest of the country put together. What is the only U.P. river prominently shown on the map? A) Sand ...