NEGAUNEE — A new program will soon be in effect in Downtown Negaunee. Our new permitted parking program will help with city’s housing shortage, as well as aid in downtown development. Permitted parking program? Like they have in Marquette, you might say. Like metered parking? No, not at ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on this topic. The final part will appear imn The Mining Journal in two weeks. NEGAUNEE — “Last evening about half-past five o’clock, Edith, the little five-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Lafonier, who lives upstairs ...

NEGAUNEE — The Downtown Enhancement Project is more than a facelift, it is instrumental in reshaping Negaunee’s long term economic future. Funded in part by USDA Rural Development Funding, MDOT Small Urban Development Funds, and a Michigan Economic Development Corporation Revitalization ...

NEGAUNEE — In 1843 when Indian treaties made it possible for white men to explore Lake Superior’s shores, it was copper that first drew men to the wilderness. Iron, according to authorities, was discovered by accident, and there didn’t seem to be a “gold rush.” Julius Ropes found ...

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 ...

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 ...