A CONTROVERSY BREWING over signs in downtown Marquette. The planning and zoning department has been telling some building owners that their tenants--the merchants--have too many signs. Too much square footage on the outside of the buildings and too much in the windows. (An artistic design in a window is considered a ... Continue Reading
Booming Farmers Market, Border Patrol Raid, Super One Facelift, Solar Power Popularity, Garden Bouquet’s Metaphysical Move, and Students Contribute to the City
RECORD NUMBERS AT Marquette's Farmers Market. Fifteen hundred shoppers have been stopping by on recent Saturdays as long as it wasn't raining. That's huge, more than the 1100, on average, who attended last year, and far, far more than when the market first moved to the Commons in 2007. The vendors are clamoring to get ... Continue Reading
The Homeless in Marquette: They’re Becoming Everybody’s Problem
"IT'S THE ELEPHANT in the room that nobody wants to talk about." Those are the words of Marquette Police Chief Blake Rieboldt. He's talking about the homeless people in town, and more specifically about the problems some of them are creating for his police force. In 2015 and 2016 combined, his officers responded to ... Continue Reading
Big Addition to Downtown, No Big Changes at Babycakes, Nobody at the Bayou, a One Man Gym Downtown, a Diabetic Study in Harvey, a Yellow Facelift for the Wooden Nickel, and a Dubious Award for Ishpeming
LOOKS LIKE MARQUETTE will soon be getting a major new tenant in the heart of downtown. The Chamber of Commerce and the UP Masonic Association will be signing a memorandum of understanding in the next week or so to develop a "coworking" space at the Masonic Square on Washington Street. It's a big deal. Five thousand ... Continue Reading
Babycakes, a Downtown Institution, Is Sold
KIM DANIELSON WILL not be reporting to work at Babycakes on Tuesday. That's because she has just sold her coffee shop/bakery/restaurant, a downtown favorite for almost three decades, to the Huron Mountain Bakery. "I'm sure I'll miss it," she says, "but it just felt like it was time to move on. I've had a lot of offers ... Continue Reading