Green burials have been given the green light for Park Cemetery. The Marquette City Commission on Monday OK’d an updated version of the rules and regulations at the cemetery, and this includes allowing green burials and mausoleums. At Park Cemetery, an area for green burials will be ...
A project that’s taking place in the city of Negaunee that, if successful, will see the city’s aged veterans memorial refurbished, establishment of a public green space nearby and Eagle Scout honors earned certainly has our support. Westwood High School junior Nick Mattson, who is a ...
Joe Biden wants us to believe that all his touching speaks to how deeply he cares about other people. It’s really a testament to how much regard he has for himself. As everyone has always known, Biden is prone to weird and wildly overfamiliar interactions with women, which are ...
We’d like to offer our congratulations to Beacon House officials, realty reps and others involved in the very recent sale of the former hospitality house in north Marquette to people from the Chicago area. It was announced late last week that the building, located at 1301 N. Third St., had ...
Equal pay for equal work. Seems like a pretty simple concept, right? In practice, though, it apparently hasn’t been easy enough for those doling out wages to women. Tuesday was Equal Pay Day and has been observed as a way to raise awareness of the inequality in earnings among men and women ...
Talk about applying what you’ve learned to a real-life crisis situation. That’s what happened when first-year Northern Michigan University nursing student Tess Kostelec saved the life of a fellow student. Kostelec performed the Heimlich Maneuver on a student choking in the Northern Light ...
Enbridge officials and their many supporters didn’t like it when it happened but a federal judge’s ruling last week that a key state agency should take a closer look at the pipeline company’s plans for dealing with potential oil spills in the waterway connecting lakes Huron and Michigan ...
Northern Michigan University’s Biology Department invited the public to join in remembering student Guiancarlo “Carlo” Bayot Estupigan during a commemoration Saturday. Estupigan passed away on Jan. 27 from exposure after getting caught in a snowstorm near the Yellow Dog River, just ...
Without a doubt, Presque Isle Park is one of the crown jewels in the region. Not just the city of Marquette, but Marquette County, the Upper Peninsula and maybe the state of Michigan. The peninsula park, surrounded on three sides by Lake Superior, has many attractions, including a gazebo. a ...
We’re pleased President Donald Trump backed off a proposal to cut funding for Great Lakes cleanup and support by 90 percent. At a rally last week in Grands Rapids, Trump announced that the program’s $300 million annual cost, cut from his fiscal year 2019-20 budget in its original form, ...
A proposal that would see an airport in Michigan used to launch satellites into orbit is intriguing. That Sawyer International Airport in rural Marquette County is on some sort of short list for consideration takes the concept from intriguing to exciting, especially given the potential economic ...
The budget proposals coming out of Washington, D.C., these days have us scratching our heads. On top of President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — which we’ve discussed recently on this page and strongly opposed — a severe funding cut for the ...
We like the motivation driving a pair of state officials who hosted a town hall meeting in the Peter White Public Library in Marquette — transparency in government and the improved trust in government that transparency will engender. State Rep. Sara Cambensy and Secretary of State Jocelyn ...
Spring has finally sprung, and with it comes the Marquette Mountain Spring Skiesta, which will be held Saturday and Sunday. “After this pretty hectic season of changes and community interaction we really want this event to be one last big celebration for everybody in the ski community and ...
The first recipient of the Carl V. Pellonpaa Lifetime Achievement Award is a deserving one. Don Ryan, who hosts his own television show on WLUC TV6 and Fox UP, “The Ryan Report,” was honored Monday at the Ramada Inn. The award’s namesake is himself notable. Pellonpaa, also a ...
There are any number of ways to gauge the economic vitality of an area. Some are statistical in nature and others are anecdotal. Superiorland residents have the best of both worlds in the annual Mining Journal Progress Edition, which publishes today for 2019. This year, it’s over 100 ...
It seems that every day more news arrives on how social media has been misused, often for nefarious purposes. What follows here is yet another example of this misuse. Michigan Treasury Department officials and local assessors report a surge in inquiries from residents who have read on social ...
Hats off to the Superior Watershed Partnership Land Conservancy for the work the organization is doing in preserving and opening to the public a small tract of western Upper Peninsula property along the Sturgeon River. The SWP has launched an international campaign with Canada to raise $2.1 ...
Legislation churning its way through the Senate right now, if enacted, would take a good step toward improving transparency of government here in the Great Lakes State, but still falls short of a complete home run. It’s a rare phenomenon that doesn’t tend to happen very often these days, ...
The wheels of the state bureaucracy turn, albeit somewhat slowly, in support of rules on the sale of recreational marijuana. According to the state’s Bureau of Marijuana Regulation, a draft set of rules should be ready by summer, perhaps as early as June, regulating the commercial ...