WE TAKE TODAY'S Fourth of July parade in Marquette for granted. Along with the three day International Food Fest. Same thing with Harborfest coming up later this summer. They just happen, right? They're city events. Well, no. The parade wouldn't happen without the yearlong efforts of volunteers from the Kiwanis Club, ... Continue Reading
Township Transforming, Range Bank Centralizing, KADU Opening, NMU Surprising, Partridge Creek Expanding, Phil’s Fund Growing, Tracey’s Impressing, and the Joyful Spectacle of Umbrellas
COME BACK TO Marquette Township along US 41 in a year or two, and you might not recognize the place. It's changing before our very eyes. A 6000 square foot Fraco showroom is being constructed just east of Gordon Food Service. It'll be open in early 2018. More land being leveled nearby, and Planning and Zoning ... Continue Reading
Outlanders Delay, Kayak Craze, Munising Upgrade, Cognition Uncertainty, Hospital Ambiguity, 553 Construction, Serenity in Harvey, and TickPick’s Apology
OUTLANDERS, THE LITTLE takeout restaurant that's moving from south Marquette to the building formerly occupied by the Panda Garden on West Washington Street, is now scheduled to open next month. A dozen employees have been hired. Original plans called for it to open in May. But, surprise surprise, construction got ... Continue Reading
Velodrome Coffee, Bee Mystery, Trillium Triumph, Munising Mountain Biking, the Grove Transformed, and Delta Loves the U.P.
COFFEETOWN USA. THAT'S what Marquette is becoming. Yet another coffee shop is scheduled to open in town later this summer. This one, on West Washington Street across from the Marquette Food Co-op, is Velodrome Coffee Company, the creation of Brice Sturmer and his wife Teagan. He's from Green Bay, she's from Channing ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk with Brian Sinotte
Brian Cabell sits down down with Brian Sinotte (rhymes with "why not"), the CEO of UP Health System Marquette. Sinotte took the job less than a year ago after a stint as CEO at another Duke LifePoint facility in North Carolina. He arrived at time when UPHS was starting construction on its expensive new hospital here, but ... Continue Reading