What are you thankful for? That’s the question I posed to hundreds of our friends and neighbors on my Facebook “friends” list. Exploring thankfulness is nothing new, except this year our “thanks” might look a little different from years past. I expected, and received, dozens of references to family, friends, faith, and ... Continue Reading
Free Lunch, Helping Friends, and Bucking the Pandemic
There is a Free Lunch! Thanksgiving came early yesterday at UP Health System, as Team Fox Marquette paid for two local food trucks to feed all of the UPHS Marquette healthcare workers. Luke Hubbard, Fox Marquette General Manager, thought it was an appropriate way to thank those on the front lines. “These people have ... Continue Reading
Nonprofits’ Struggles, The Naked Truth, Lamprey Control
Nonprofits Not Profiting Looking for some good news during the pandemic? Well you’re not going to find it here. Because it’s not just your favorite restaurant or retail shop that’s struggling to provide goods and services… it’s almost every area nonprofit as well. For many nonprofits the pandemic has turned out to be ... Continue Reading
TEAM Wireless Moving, “1st to Finish” Savings Plan, New Host at WNMU-TV
TEAM Wireless Moving Up TEAM Wireless is moving up, as in... up the road. Up to higher ground. Up from their current location in front of Kohl’s to the higher elevations found on the corner in front of Super One Foods. Okay, so it’s not much of move distance-wise, but for this busy wireless provider it represents a ... Continue Reading
Local Farm Ed, Food at The Courtyards, TV6 Canathon and Redmen Football
Farming for the Future Regular readers of Word on the Street will note that this isn’t the first time Partridge Creek Farm has been profiled here. And at the rate they’re going, it won’t be the last. In just a few short years Partridge Creek Farm has gone from a modest neighborhood garden to their current project, a ... Continue Reading