YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED the new facade on the 231 West building in downtown Marquette. Exceptionally handsome. As attractive as any in Marquette. But it's what's behind that exterior that will provide an interesting story in the months and years ahead. 231 West will be a high class French-style patisserie and coffee ... Continue Reading
Book World Building Is Sold, and It’s Beer Choir Night!
NEARLY TWO YEARS after Book World closed down in the heart of downtown Marquette, the building has finally been sold. The buyers? Anne White, originally of Marquette, and her partner, Scott Anderson, who together form Buffalo Dragon Investments. So....what's it gonna be? "We're not absolutely certain what we're ... Continue Reading
The Hail Mary
"It's like we threw a long bomb into the end zone and we completed the pass. And we scored. It actually happened." The words of David Gill, the president of the board of the Marquette Brewing Cooperative which today (Tuesday) opens Drifa, the new brewery in south Marquette. Today's opening is for the 350 co-op members ... Continue Reading
Running for Herself and Her Children
YOU LOOK AT Jill Leonard--tall and lean--and you might guess that she's an athlete, and you'd be partially correct. She's now 45, married, a mother of three, a businesswoman who runs an insurance agency. But years ago, she was a basketball star. Her high school team won a state championship, she earned a scholarship to ... Continue Reading
Road Rage Marquette Style
A SIGHT AND sound witnessed recently in downtown Marquette. Car #1 headed north in slow traffic on Front Street stops at a well-marked crosswalk at Main Street to allow a pedestrian, waiting on the sidewalk, to cross Front Street. Car #2 stops behind Car #1, and the driver immediately leans out the window and starts ... Continue Reading