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Merit Financial Advisors acquires Bell Financial

MARQUETTE – Merit Financial Advisors, a Georgia-based financial advisory firm, has announced that it has acquired Bell Financial Services Company, a Marquette-based wealth management firm, adding approximately $195 million in total assets. Jesse Bell, president and owner of Bell ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

60 years ago NEGAUNEE — With the opening of another school year little more than a week away, Police Chief Ralph Carlson today suggested that parents of children who will be entering school for the first time familiarize youngsters with the route they should follow. “Some of the kindergarten children have been prepared in many ways for their first school year by enrollment in Operation Head Start, but our principal concern is that they be well aware of any traffic hazards they may encounter along the way to and from school,” Chief Carlson said. “This is particularly true for ...

Assuring access to electronic waste recycling in U.P.

MARQUETTE — It started as a complaint in 2014 about an unregistered electronics recycler with a pile of televisions behind their place of business. It ended with the Environmental Protection Agency in 2020 spending over $1 million to cleanup over 1.2 million pounds of crushed television ...