MARQUETTE ISN'T WHAT it was twenty years ago, even ten years ago. Big changes, big growth. Consider this: A $300 million hospital is under construction on the highway. Apartments and condos are rising on and near the lakeshore. Expansion is underway at NMU, with more planned. New restaurants and hotels are popping up, ... Continue Reading
Yooper Shirts Moves Up to Third Street, and TriMedia Classes Up Washington Street
ANOTHER YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR is stepping up his game. Jeremy Symons, the owner of Yooper Shirts, has just bought the building formerly occupied by Casualties on Third Street in Marquette. He's currently remodeling the store and hopes to be open for business by May 1st. Yooper Shirts will remain in its Gossard Building ... Continue Reading
St. Paddy’s Street Party, Delft Bistro Liquor License, Brewing Co-op Plans, Gander Mountain Troubles, Adamini Aftermath, SmartPrize Cash Boost
THE DOUBLE TROUBLE guys--the ones who saved the Ball Drop celebration on New Years Eve--have come up with something new: a big time, blow-out St. Patricks Day street party this year. Mark it on your calendar. Friday, March 17th. All afternoon, evening, and night. Yep, they'll be shutting down a good part of Washington ... Continue Reading
Cognition to Reopen
Cognition Brewing Company is reopening, likely as early as tomorrow (Saturday). No details yet but owner Jay Clancey has simply written "We are Back!! Snow moving starts immediately." Cognition has been closed since late last week after the brewery's landlord, the Mather Inn, plowed a huge wall of snow in front of ... Continue Reading
Republican official Dan Adamini resigns following Kent State comments
DAN ADAMINI HAS resigned as secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, he told The Mining Journal on Wednesday. Adamini ran into a storm of criticism last week that reached a national scale after he suggested in a couple of social media posts that campus protests might be stopped by gunfire. “I have always ... Continue Reading