SHAWN SALO DOESN'T much believe in the joy of the holiday season. He lives alone, he's not religious, and he's been chronically depressed since he was fifteen. But wait! There's more to this story than you might think. This isn't just another one of those "Christmastime leads to depression" stories. Shawn's forty ... Continue Reading
Lee Francisco’s Next Challenge
ONE OF MARQUETTE'S technology pioneers has left 906 Technologies, the company he founded thirteen years ago, and has moved on to a new challenge. Lee Francisco is the president of the start-up Agrimote Solutions which has invented a sensor that can monitor the soil moisture of thousands of individual plants ... Continue Reading
The Room at the Inn Firing: What Really Happened
IT CAME AS a surprise--even a shock--to many of us. Doug Russell, the highly respected executive director of Room at the Inn and this community's leading advocate for the homeless, was terminated. Fired. It seemed to come out of the blue, totally unexpected. And unfair, as well. After all, the man wasn't making a ton ... Continue Reading
Hope for Munising’s Housing Crunch
FOLKS ARE ALWAYS saying it's tough to find good, affordable housing in Marquette. In Munising, it may be worse. "The housing situation is critical here," says Mayor Rod Desjardins, "but the city is working with a developer from Detroit right now looking for a solution." The plans haven't been firmed up yet and no ... Continue Reading
Shake-up at Room at the Inn
DOUG RUSSELL IS out as the executive director at Room at the Inn. No reason given for what Russell refers to as his "termination" which occurred on Thursday. "The Board is looking for new leadership," Ryan Redmond says. He's been manager at the Warming Center and is now acting as interim executive director at Room at ... Continue Reading