ISHPEMING — “Every passenger train that arrived here yesterday brought visitors to the city. “Among these were nearly all the representative educators of the upper peninsula here attending the first annual meeting of the school superintendents, principals and county commissioners of the ...

Patients frequently describe the U.S. health care system as impersonal, corporate and fragmented. One study even called the care delivered to many vulnerable patients “inhumane.” Seismic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic – particularly the shift to telehealth – only exacerbated ...

NEGAUNEE — Negaunee has been through many changes over the past several years, many of those changes have been attributed to the economic development strategic plan, Moving Forward. This plan was designed with an expiration date of five years. Not all of the eleven objectives have been ...

NEGAUNEE — The name Mather is synonymous with iron ore mining in Marquette County, notably the Mather “B” mine in Negaunee and the Mather “A” in Ishpeming. The Mather family moved to Cleveland from Connecticut in 1843. In 1844, the presence of iron ore was discovered in Negaunee ...

By KAREN KASPER Special to the Journal John Henry Vidlund was born in January of 1890 in Ishpeming. He attended Ishpeming Schools but like so many young men in that era, did not graduate. He enlisted in the navy serving from 1908 to 1912. He left the Navy after his initial term of ...

NEGAUNEE — Affordable housing, attainable housing, just housing, is an issue on the minds of many here in Marquette County, our state, and the nation. What can we as a local government do to help fix the problem besides acknowledging that the lack of housing in our area does need to be ...