YOU ARE NO DOUBT ALL TOO familiar with the tragedy which occurred last weekend when an Escanaba couple lost their lives in a traffic accident as they were on their way to see their son play basketball in Sault Ste. Marie. I don’t need to go into unnecessary detail about the incident, which is almost too painful ... Continue Reading
Marquette Township… On a Roll!
Marquette Township has been flexing its municipal muscles lately with an impressive influx of both commercial and residential expansion. New businesses and new housing developments are in the works, with more likely on the way. That sure seems like a good thing, though it probably doesn’t please everybody. We ... Continue Reading
Stuck in the Snow
“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but still the same amount of snow." Are you spending the winter in the Great White North, lamenting our latest snowstorm and wondering why you aren’t in Florida or Arizona? Are you hunkered down on the couch, weathering the winter in ... Continue Reading
Quietly Cleaning Up… and Down
Folks of a certain age can probably remember the time when littering wasn’t the transgression it’s considered to be today. That bag of McDonald’s garbage would just as likely end up on the side of the road as in any waste receptacle. Thankfully, we’ve progressed to a point where we now recognize that the ... Continue Reading
2023 – The Year in Preview
With 2022 now a not-so-distant memory, it’s time to look forward at what we can anticipate seeing happen around here in ’23. It seemed like planners were real busy last year but planning and producing are two different things. I wouldn’t suggest that any of the developments currently on the drawing board are ... Continue Reading
Airing and Sharing Grievances
I know… Festivus, the seasonal celebration known for the airing of grievances, was last week. But it just didn’t seem right to complain about stuff and take people to task just two days before Christmas. So I’m going to air my grievances two days before the new year. It shouldn’t matter anyway. As Kramer ... Continue Reading
Addressing Addresses
New (Affordable?) Homes Affordable housing. It’s the problem that will likely never be fixed, only addressed, with incremental improvements being the best we can hope for. That being said… here’s an incremental improvement that’s going to be life changing for a number of local families. It’s the Habitat for ... Continue Reading
NEWS AND VIEWS
NEWS… Someone finally had the courage to deface the sign promoting the planned North Harbor condo development along Lakeshore Boulevard. VIEWS… Courage? Hardly. In truth, someone has confused civil disobedience with simple vandalism. You don’t like the idea of marshland being transformed into habitable, ... Continue Reading
First Annual?
Before we go any further, let’s look at the critical issue here… the all-too-frequent practice of calling an event the “First Annual.” In addition to the use of “seen” instead of “saw,” wordsmiths silently seethe at the use of “First Annual” rather than the more appropriate “Inaugural” to designate the initial ... 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
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