"THE OTHER KIDS at my high school don't even think mountain biking is a sport," 15 year old Caden Holm (below, on the right) says. He's a sophomore at Negaunee High School. "They're all about football and basketball. That's it. They think I'm crazy." So what does he say to them? "I tell them they ought to get on a bike ... Continue Reading
More Music, More Coffee, a Mea Culpa, Fewer Books, Many More Apartments, A New Tech Launch, More National Praise, and How Not to Do Business
EXPECT TO HEAR more music on Third Street later this month. A new music store, Yooptone Music, offering instruments for sale and rent, repairs and lessons, hopes to open its doors in the Village Shopping Center on November 20th. That's the space currently occupied by the Sara Cambensy headquarters. If you're saying to ... Continue Reading
Dubious Treasure Coughed Up by Lake Superior
IT WAS ONE of the most discouraging photographs to come out of last week's historic wind and wave storm on Lake Superior. Garbage. Junk, much of it plastic, that washed up on the beaches of Marquette County. Stella Larkin, one of the owners of Rustico, which makes rustic log furnishings here in Marquette, was ... Continue Reading
Meijer’s Tax Assessment, Film Festival’s Impact, Bike Magazine’s Posting, Rehab Clinic Update, Founders Landing Condos Final Phase, and Everybody’s Moving to Michigan
DECEMBER WILL BE an interesting month for the Meijer store now under construction in Marquette Township. Why? Because that's when the store will get its first tax assessment from the Township following the Michigan Supreme Court's recent ruling that the Tax Tribunal must re-evaluate its method of assessing ... Continue Reading
Storm Was Comparable to Fitzgerald Storm
YOU'RE NOT WRONG if you think Tuesday's storm was comparable to the infamous November, 1975 storm on Lake Superior that took the Edmund Fitzgerald down. "In terms of millibars, it was very similar to the '75 storm, " NWS forecaster Jason Alumbaugh says. "The winds were a little weaker, but the waves were absolutely ... Continue Reading