BIG BOY IS expanding its restaurant. It'll be building another room off the back of the main restaurant in the next month or two--enough to handle another 50-60 diners. Why? Business is good, up about 50% from when it opened 10 years ago. In addition, the closures of Perkins and Bonanza, both up the road on US-41, ... Continue Reading
Nurses Negotiate with the Hospital Amid Tension, Layoffs and Outsourcing
IT HASN'T GOTTEN much play in the media, but the nurses' union has just begun negotiations on a new contract with UP Health System-Marquette. It comes at a time when the brand spanking new $300 million dollar hospital arises alongside US-41...and when a quiet sense of turmoil and uncertainty lingers in the halls of the ... Continue Reading
Rippling River Resort, Insurance Shake-up, Great Lakes Threat, Teal Lake Dilemma, Praise for Marquette, and an Escape Room
BIG CHANGES ON M-553, just north of Marquette Mountain. If you've driven by recently, you've probably noticed a major construction zone. Thirty seven acres, soon to be the Rippling River Resort, alongside the Carp River. The project was approved a few months back, and now you can see that it's going to change the ... Continue Reading
Sweet Water Becomes “Bodega,” Cognition Searches for a Solution (and Maybe a Location), and McCabe’s Finds a Spot on the Highway
THE SWEET WATER cafe is no more. One of Marquette's favored dining spots on Third Street has been renamed Cafe Bodega (meaning: a small store that sells groceries and wine). The new sign went up Monday afternoon. It's the latest and most visible change instituted by the new owners Leslie Seratti and Libby Nelson ... Continue Reading
Iron Bay Prepares to Open, So Does Mystery Business, Short Term Rental Ordinance Poised for Passage, Sawyer Airport Prospects Brighten, CR 595 Is Hopeful, and NMU Professor Is “On Call” for More Protests
FIRST THE RECOVERY Room, then the Delft, then Digs, and now the Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery (formerly L'Attitude). New and re-fashioned restaurants and bars are popping up downtown seemingly every month. The latest on the Iron Bay: They'll be taking applications for employees within a couple of weeks. They hope ... Continue Reading