It’s in the water. You’d think water would be the least of our problems. Look to the east and you’ll see a big lake right there that holds an estimated 3 quadrillion gallons of fresh water. 3 QUADRILLION. Written numerically, that’s 3,000,000,000,000,000, or three more zeros than a trillion. By all accounts, it’s good ... Continue Reading
Redmen Re-Revisited • A Level Playing Field • No News?
In the continuing chronicle of the Marquette Senior High School nickname issue, a member of the Native American community weighed in with a letter to the MAPS school board at their regular meeting earlier this week. The letter, written by Austin Lowes, Acting Chairman of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and ... Continue Reading
Salamanders! • A Sound Solution • Who’s Your Daddy? • An April Day
Salamander Festival Announced The recent discovery of a salamander migration that takes place annually in the spring at Presque Isle has provided the impetus for area salamander groupies to announce the inaugural Salamander Selebration. The festival will take place on the west side of Presque Isle, near where the slimy ... Continue Reading
A Sculpture Park • Classic Cars for a Cause
Lakenenland Tahquamenon Falls... Pictured Rocks... Kitch-iti-kipi... Lakenenland. Lakenenland? Yup. You can start including Lakenenland on the list of "must see" destinations in the U.P. This quirky sculpture park hidden among the Chocolay Township scrub pines just a few miles east of Marquette is fast becoming a ... Continue Reading
The Homeless… and Other Words
Homeless... not Hopeless Have you driven by the Room at the Inn Warming Center on West Washington lately? Did you look? Or did you look away? Like almost every other city in the nation, Marquette has a homeless “issue.” For one reason or another, there’s a certain percentage of the population that just can’t seem to ... Continue Reading