MARQUETTE — Northern State Normal School (now Northern Michigan University) opened in 1899 to educate teachers. Thirty-two students studied under a faculty of six. Attendance in 1900-01 was 158. Most of the students were from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and were already teachers. They took ...
GWINN — The Michigan State Police’s Emergency Support Team held the second day of its Fall Refresher Training on Tuesday morning. The training is an intensive, multi-day event that brings together the entire statewide ES Team for one of three annual large-scale training sessions. In the ...
MARQUETTE — Average gasoline prices in Michigan have risen 18.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.27/g today, according to GasBuddy's survey of 4,913 stations in Michigan. Prices in Michigan are 2.0 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 10.8 cents per gallon lower ...
DETROIT — The legacy of Vincent Chin has recently been commemorated in a street sign bearing his name on the corner of Cass Avenue and Peterboro Street in Detroit’s historic Chinatown. I was glad to see it. Watching the 1987 documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and learning about ...
MARINETTE — Two male suspects are in custody after 13-year-old Jakob Bowerman passed away following a drowning incident in Marinette. According to a Monday press release posted to Facebook from the Marinette Police Department, officers, EMS and fire rescue personnel were dispatched at ...