YOU GAZE AT them from out on the Lake, and they look like bookends to the city of Marquette. One in the north, the other in the south. Not especially pretty bookends. Masses of metal, stacks reaching skyward, and in the not-too-distant past, those pipes were sending smoke into our pristine skies., The smoke is gone, ... Continue Reading
The Path Less Travelled
A DECADE AGO, Bob and Peggy Lorinser were living the good life in Marquette. He was a doctor at Marquette General, she was mostly a stay-at-home mom and wife, though she'd worked jobs at Kohl's and the YMCA. They loved their life, their children, their town, and their camp out at Bass Lake. But then fate ... Continue Reading
The Race of a Lifetime
IMAGINE SNAPPING ON your cross country skis and then skiing for 220 kilometers straight, taking only brief rests along the way. That's 137 miles. That's almost from here to the Bridge on skis. That's exactly what Tom Mahaney, a local businessman, and Greg Nelson, a local chiropractor, recently accomplished in the Red ... Continue Reading
Marquette TV Show Planned for this Fall
MARQUETTE AND THE Upper Peninsula will be the stars of a new cable network TV show scheduled to air this fall. AmericanaVista, a two year old network with 825,000 subscribers, has announced it will air "Yooperz!," a weekly one hour sitcom featuring the antics of a lovable but dysfunctional family living in ... Continue Reading
“I’m Just Average. I’ve Got a Lot of Work to Do”
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Eric Banitt of Marquette may have amazed us local folks with his musical skills over the past several years, but according to him, he's now just a regular guy banging away on the piano down at the University of Michigan. Nothing exceptional, he says. He's modest, to say the least. He built a heckuva ... Continue Reading