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 ...

NEGAUNEE — Wondering what to buy someone for Christmas? In 1944, Frank Matthews received the card shown here from his son Frank Matthews Jr. when he was stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Ottumwa, Iowa. It was a primary flight training base in Iowa’s heartland. The verse inside ...

ISHPEMING — “Must be that the coaches believe the weather experienced of late is good for conditioning candidates for the Ishpeming independent football team, for they have been holding regular practices every evening at the playgrounds, and many a pound of surplus fat has been shed. There ...