By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press If your idea of a New Orleans cocktail is a Kool-Aid colored, alcohol-heavy concoction served in a plastic hand grenade or a novelty glass resembling a hurricane lamp, stop thinking like a college freshman on his first trip to Bourbon Street and take a ...
JULIE RIDDLE The Alpena News ALPENA — At 12:52 p.m. Wednesday, Alpena High School students paused to think of other teenagers who died at the hands of a gunman one year ago at Oxford High School. “That was a year ago?” a student asked, shortly before Principal Romeo Bourdage spoke over a loudspeaker, asking students to observe a moment of silence in honor of the lives lost in the shooting that left four dead and seven injured. Students respectfully bowed their heads, marking the anniversary of the moment police were called to the tragedy that inspired security measure ...
MARQUETTE — Four players from Negaunee and one from Marquette were named to the all-region team for Region 1 recently by the Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches Association. MIVCA named 22 players from around the central and western Upper Peninsula to the Region 1 honors squad. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is banning the sale of communications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE and restricting the use of some China-made video surveillance systems, citing an “unacceptable risk” to national security. The five-member Federal Communications ...
I have a plan on how to make Marquette more interesting. Granted, it’s just a plan and some of what I write is steeped in sarcasm — and it’s up to my loyal readers to figure out what — but it might give people something to think about. Often when I travel by the Superior Dome, I look at the top of the dome and think how much fun it would be if it could be wired to act like a Simon game. Simon was a circular electronic game that required the players to repeat color and light sequences in order. The longer the sequence, the longer it was to perform them, or at least that was how ...
Hearing wild turkeys gobbling and clucking as you step out into the backyard early in the morning is common for many Michiganders now, but it wasn’t always so. The remarkable return of these birds from near extinction is often called one of the country’s greatest wildlife conservation success stories. There are more than 6 million wild turkeys in the United States today, but seeing – or hearing – one was rare as recently as 50 years ago. In Michigan, wild turkeys had been plentiful prior to the arrival of settlers, with an estimated 94,000 in the state at that time. By the ...
