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A Negaunee pizza tradition is returning

By NATE HEFFRON City manager City of Negaunee NEGAUNEE — The Gravedoni family has been making pizza since the 1970’s. Now that generations-old family tradition has a new, although familiar face, with the opening of Gravedoni’s Pizza at the beginning of December. Vince Gravedoni, ...

West End Update – City of Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — The history of mead goes back in time, way back in time. Many probably think that it was just the Vikings that drank that stuff, but history has shown that mead could be one of the oldest ancestral alcoholic beverages. Vikings are known to have consumed the beverage around 800 AD ...

Beating the jinx is always going to be job one

ISHPEMING — “Can they ‘beat the jinx?’ The annual question is at hand as Ishpeming and Iron Mountain football forces grid to do battle for the 18th time in a series in which the Hematites have yet to win. The series has produced some excellent football, but the end result has always ...

West End Update – City of Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — Housing is topic that can evoke many thoughts and emotions - primality due to the area’s lack of it. How do we overcome the emotions surrounding this issue, so we can effectively solve it and actually provide housing? Problems are rarely fixed by raw emotional responses ...

Historically speaking

By VIRGINIA PAULSON Negaunee Historical Society NEGAUNEE — Mary Tippett Andes interviewed Glen Bjork of Negaunee for this article about underground mining. Glenn Bjork started working part time at the Princeton Mine in Gwinn in March of 1943, while he was still in high school. He ...

West End Update – City of Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — We are on the heels of another amazing weekend in Negaunee with the Heikki Lunta Winter Festival 2024. Heikki Lunta officially kicked off with the lighting of the traditional bonfire and was followed up with the Irontown Rail Jam. The jam offered an enhanced course when compared ...