SOMETHING NEW ON Marquette's culinary scene. Queen City Burgers on US 41 (across from Frei Chevrolet) opens next Monday, pending a final inspection this week by the county mechanical inspector. Local businessmen Dave Guizzetti and Eric Curtis have put a lot of work and money into it. "It's not fast food," Guizzetti ... Continue Reading
Marquette TV Show Planned for this Fall
MARQUETTE AND THE Upper Peninsula will be the stars of a new cable network TV show scheduled to air this fall. AmericanaVista, a two year old network with 825,000 subscribers, has announced it will air "Yooperz!," a weekly one hour sitcom featuring the antics of a lovable but dysfunctional family living in ... Continue Reading
“I’m Just Average. I’ve Got a Lot of Work to Do”
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Eric Banitt of Marquette may have amazed us local folks with his musical skills over the past several years, but according to him, he's now just a regular guy banging away on the piano down at the University of Michigan. Nothing exceptional, he says. He's modest, to say the least. He built a heckuva ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk: Fred Stonehouse
Brian Cabell probes the mind and the life of 70-year-old historian and writer Fred Stonehouse, who also happens to be Marquette's mayor. BC: You're not a native Michigander, right? FS: Right. I was brought up in New Jersey, we had a house down at the seashore. Seaside Park. My mother, father, two brothers and a ... Continue Reading
A Disease with No Name
YOU LOOK AT him and you see a handsome nine-year-old boy. A wave of brown hair swept across his forehead, a shy smile, a gentle voice. But there's more to Will Chittle of Negaunee than that. Much more. His mother Janice, who works out of her home, will tell you about him. "It was a normal birth but then he wasn't ... Continue Reading