LANSING — Detroit this week turned down 6,200 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, favoring shots from Pfizer and Moderna, but said Friday it will accept J&J doses in the state’s next allocation. Mayor Mike Duggan had said Thursday that residents ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s redistricting commission will ask the state Supreme Court to push back the Nov. 1 deadline to finalize new political maps, citing an eight-month delay in data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The panel authorized the legal step Friday. Under a 2018 constitutional ...
LANSING — Business groups on Thursday urged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to let employers reopen their offices for in-person work rather than lengthen a coronavirus-related restriction set to expire in mid-April. In October, after a court ruling upended the Democratic governor’s pandemic orders, ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Health Department has provided pre-registration details regarding the new COVID-19 vaccination priority groups. As of Monday, eligibility will be expanded to include residents age 50 and over with medical conditions or disabilities as well as family members ...
MARQUETTE — House Bill 4346, sponsored by state Rep. Sara Cambensy, D-Marquette, was passed by the House Health Policy Committee Wednesday, according to a news release from Cambensy’s office. The bill would establish an insulin copay cap of $50 for a 30-day supply, officials said. ...
MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum announces it will be moving to its two-hour booking format starting April 1. Occupancy will be limited to 25 people during each two-hour time slot to assure safe social distancing. Tickets may be purchased by going online ...
MARQUETTE —This month, for Peter White Public Library’s Authors Reading Virtually series, writer/poet/lyric essayist/all ‘round cool guy Matthew Gavin Frank reads from his just-published book “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers.” It will be an evening of global intrigue, jewels, and ...
MARQUETTE — A quote in Tuesday’s front page Mining Journal on small farms and food should have quoted Alex Palzewicz as saying new programs such as 10 Cents a Meal have come to the Upper Peninsula.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Newspapers support literacy. Literacy is important in society and to the future of newspapers, according to Mining Journal Publisher Bill ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following information is collected from Marquette City Police Department dispatch log books recorded at the time the calls were received. The incidents reported may have proven to be unfounded once police investigated. Some log entries may be edited or omitted due to space ...
Reader Lorene Zeno Koskey submitted this image she captured of intertwined hearts made by car tires in freshly fallen snow in her driveway in Shiras Hills, Marquette. Did you take a great shot of the sunset over Teal Lake? Or did you happen to snap a captivating image of wildlife? The Mining ...
SAULT STE. MARIE —The Soo Film Festival is set to return to downtown Sault Ste. Marie from Sept. 15-19 for its 2021 edition. Films will screen at the historic Soo Theatre and Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library. Due to the ongoing health crisis dates and venues are subject ...
ESCANABA — Annual springtime weight and speed restrictions will go into effect on all Delta County Roads not designated as all season routes, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. Deputies from the Delta County Sheriff Department will be enforcing springtime weight restrictions. A list of the ...
NORWAY — The Norway City Council on Monday had a second reading of an ordinance to opt into the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act. While the state in 2018 approved allowing recreational marijuana sales, Norway citizens voted against the move, 641 no to 541 yes. The council ...
HANCOCK — Finlandia University has been awarded a top ranking status for Best Colleges In Michigan by Intelligent.com. FinnU was ranked No. 14 in Michigan and the Best Lutheran Institution in the state. The comprehensive research guide is based on an assessment of 2,277 accredited ...
Above, a woman views the pieces featured in their year’s Youth in Art exhibit at the Bonifas Arts Center in Escanaba. The annual show is smaller than in years past, primarily due to the lack of in-person instruction at participating schools. Still, the exhibit features about 360 pieces by ...
SENIORS Outstanding (A- or higher average) Ian Addison, Addison Bailey, Madison Balko, Samuel Bartlett, Matthew Basal, Halle Beauchamp, Beau Belkowski, Kaitlyn Berandt, Samuel Billman, Lillian Biolo Thompson, Ashlee Blom, Zoey Brian, Celinda Brunswick, Emily Bryant, Sarah Bryers, Loryn ...
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard Some days, it is just feeling like spring. The quality of the sunlight, the warm, driving winds, and the melting snow on Tuesday seemed to just be shouting, “Spring, spring!!” It was a ...
ERRIEN CENTER, Mich. (AP) — Two men have been rescued from a lake in southwestern Michigan after one fell through thin ice while fishing. Deputies responded to O’Brien Lake in Berrien Center around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Berrien County sheriff’s office said. Deputies found Ryan ...
DETROIT — Pandemic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders kept many drivers off U.S. roads and highways last year. But those who did venture out found open lanes that only invited reckless driving, leading to a sharp increase in traffic-crash deaths across the country. The nonprofit National ...