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Ski Hall of Fame gets financial lift

By Journal Staff ISHPEMING — An Ishpeming nonprofit was recently awarded $25,000 to help with museum support post-COVID. The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum received a $25,000 grant from the MI Nonprofit Relief Fund. This funding comes from the federal COVID relief ...

8-18 Media: Jamaican me crazy

By NOLAN AHO 8-18 Media Special to the Journal Have you ever heard about Jamaica? Jamaica was a very important part of Columbus’s journey to India. He went there in search of clean water. Once he arrived in Jamaica, he thought he had reached India because there were Indians there that ...

Faith for all

By ALEXANDRIA BOURNONVILLE Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE—A group of students and area residents proved religion can peacefully exist within the LGBT+ community. They gathered at a unique coffee hour event on Northern Michigan University’s campus. The concept started with nonbinary senior Sonny Pilto and their passion for creating a space for students to “exist as their whole self.” Religious people in the LGBT+ community often struggle to find full acceptance in either of those spaces. In many cases, people who identify as anything other than heterosexual have been ...

Vessels

MARQUETTE — Due at 4 p.m. today at the Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore dock in Marquette’s Upper Harbor is the Lee A. Tregurtha. The Kaye E. Barker is expected at 2 a.m. on Friday. Also due on Friday is the Joseph L. Block at 4 p.m. On Monday, the Lee A. Tregurtha is expected at 7 p.m.

Sports look

Subject to change ---------------- Today ---------------- High school volleyball L’Anse at West Iron County, 6:30 p.m. EDT Bessemer at Baraga, 6:45 p.m. Munising at Stephenson, 7 p.m. EDT Superior Central at Big Bay de Noc, 7 p.m. Newberry at Sault Ste. Marie, 7 p.m. Manistique at Cheboygan, 7 p.m. Marquette at Kingsford, 7:15 p.m. EDT ---------------- High school football Iron Mountain at Negaunee, 7 p.m. ---------------- Friday ---------------- High school football Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central at Manistique, 5 p.m. Kingsford at Marquette, 6 ...

Health Matters

Most humans develop various spots, bumps, and lesions over the years. A recent patient, let’s call her Sara, had noticed a spot on her lower leg one morning, during her shower ritual. She had no history of skin “problems” and no memory of any particularly bad sunburns (although we all ...