Happy Plaidurday! The temperature dropped just in time for you to don your best plaid and celebrate Plaidurday! Plaidurday, the brain-child of local social influencer and self-proclaimed “doer of things,” Bugsy Sailor, began in earnest back in 2011, and takes place annually on the first Friday of October. The official ... Continue Reading
Getting Social • WZMQ’s New Beginning • Facebook Fatigue
From Social Distancing to Social Districting… It was just a couple weeks ago that the President announced the end of the pandemic. Granted, we’ve been inching back to normalcy for some time now, but it’s still nice to be given carte biden to shed the cloak of covid, once and for all. Notable in the comeback is ... Continue Reading
Some News… and Some Opinion
Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down The NMU Foundation held a press conference yesterday at the NMU Center to announce the official transition of the former hospital property ownership from UP Health System to the Foundation. We got to hear from some of the same people who have been out front of this deal since it ... Continue Reading
Redmen? Or What?
AS SCHOOL IS BACK in session and our sports teams are again competing on the fields and courts, it seems like a good time to revisit the MSHS mascot/branding issue. We hoped this wouldn’t still be a topic of discussion… but it is. The Indian Chief image has been scrubbed from the scene, but apparently no official decision ... Continue Reading
Hotel- DENIED Restaurants- CLOSED
IN A DECISION THAT may have surprised some, but not many, the Marquette Planning commission has denied a local developer’s application for a Special Land Use Permit to build a 4-story hotel, just off Lakeshore Boulevard, across from Picnic Rocks. The action took place before a packed house Tuesday night in the ... Continue Reading