A LITTLE BIT of deja vu these days at Community Action Alger-Marquette. The nonprofit agency (formerly known as AMCAB) helps low income residents with housing (eg Grandview Marquette), nutrition, early childhood education, and utility subsidies, but for the second time in a year, it's been hit with trouble near the ... Continue Reading
New GM Named at Marquette Mountain
(Photo: Cory Genovese) AFTER WEEKS OF controversy and dissension on Marquette Mountain, Frank Malette is out as general manager, and 27 year old Andrew Farron, a mechanical engineer, is in. The announcement was made at 3 pm Monday afternoon. Farron and Marquette Mountain owner Pete O'Dovero had been having discussions ... Continue Reading
New Owners for Trenary Home Bakery
ONE OF THE UP'S iconic companies is in new hands. Trenary Home Bakery, the makers of Trenary Toast, changed ownership at the start of the year. The new owners? Two 26-year-old NMU graduates, Marco Dossena and Brianna Wynsma (above photo), and Dossena's mother, Annunciata Cerioli, who lives in Miami. Dossena and ... Continue Reading
Burger King Property Sold… Again
LET THE GUESSING game begin again. The old Burger King property on West Washington Street? The one that was sold to Sorenson Development of Gwinn last summer? It's been sold again, to an as yet undisclosed buyer. "We've sold it, but I can't say anything else about the sale," says Tammy Baez, Sorenson's office ... Continue Reading
The Acupuncture Virgin
FOR MOST OF us who grew up in this country, with its reverence for Western medicine, it just sounds weird. Sticking needles in your skin all over your body? And expecting them to make you feel better? Seriously?? Yet acupuncture has been around for 3000 years, and increasingly western doctors are accepting it as a ... Continue Reading