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Editorial

Corkin’s steady hand at county will be missed

It’s been nearly two years since residents and business owners first got the opportunity to traverse Gerry Corkin Drive in Forsyth Township. That road, which leads to the Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport, the Sawyer Operations Center and Superior Extrusion Inc.’s manufacturing facility, ...

Negaunee works to make its community more beautiful

It’s encouraging to see the city of Negaunee is continuing to move forward, as detailed in a Thursday front page story from Journal Staff Writer Dreyma Beronja. For anyone who isn’t aware, downtown Negaunee has been a construction zone since the end of June. Over the summer, construction ...

Federal rule change will support student nutrition programs

Millions of additional students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At schools where 25% of families participate in income-based public benefits, such ...

Ishpeming survey takes temperature of city

City officials and a handful of residents participated in a review of a city-wide survey recently, focusing on what people liked and disliked in Ishpeming. Ishpeming, like a lot of other similar places around the country, stage these surveys from time to time to better understand where the ...

Harmless Bay College prank could have ended badly

Good police work a week or so ago in Escanaba in all likelihood helped avoid an innocent situation turning catastrophic. This situation took place on the campus of Bay de Noc Community College. According to police records, Escanaba Public Safety officers were dispatched to the campus at ...

Update on new Jacobetti home project positive

We think that there’s a lot to like in the plans being made to locate a new D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans at the former Cliffs-Dow site along Lakeshore Bouldvard in north Marquette. A handful of officials connected with the project updated the public at a community forum last ...