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
StraightTalk: Jim Koski
Brian Cabell talks to Jim Koski, the enthusiastic radio personality at Q107 for the last 31 years. He also hosts the TV show "High School Bowl" and conducts history tours of Marquette. BC: Where were you born and raised? JK: I was actually born and raised here in Marquette and I graduated from Marquette High ... Continue Reading
I Love Marquette, UP the Sky, and Climate Change Refugees Pouring into the UP
WE'RE NOT SURE what it means yet, but the I Love Marquette store on Washington Street in the heart of downtown has been closed for at least a week now. Simply a Closed sign on the door. Lights are on inside, flower pots outside. Becky Salmon, the assistant director of Downtown Development Authority, says she's got no ... Continue Reading
Free Ice Cream! Free Hot Dogs! And More Smiles for the Kids
ARE SERVICE CLUBS on the decline in this country? Is their membership getting older every day? Will some of them go out of business for lack of interest and members? Yes, yes, and yes. But here's why service clubs--which have struggled to attract younger members--matter. Immensely. They Get Stuff Done. Example: ... Continue Reading
Musical Chairs in Marquette, and the Highest Rated Coffee Shop in Town
IT HAPPENS EVERY year in Marquette--businesses open, close, relocate, and expand. But the last several months have been particularly active. Dizzying. Let's review what is a lengthy but almost certainly incomplete list. Try to keep up. Reblossom (the above photo) has now closed on Washington Street after moving from ... Continue Reading
Uncertainty at Gander Outdoors
A HECKUVA SALE taking place at Gander Outdoors in Marquette. Forty percent off of everything except for guns, ammunition, and generators. Big crowds But that exciting news may be masking the uncertainty surrounding the entire Gander Outdoors chain--69 stores in 22 states. The CEO of Camping World, which owns Gander ... Continue Reading
The Smokehouse Fires Up, Barrel and Beam Boosts its Brewing
A NEW ENTRY on the culinary scene. The much anticipated Lake Superior Smokehouse Brewpub (in the former Bayou space) opens to the public next Tuesday in Harvey. It'll be a very soft launch, says owner Scott Arbour. Meantime, family and friends are dining there this week. Arbour who, with his crew, has been working ... Continue Reading
Theatre with a Bite, a Literate Community, and a Stimulating Mix of Coffee and the Blues
"WE NEED TO raise funds if we're going to sustain our growth." The words of Jamie Weeder, the cofounder and director of Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival and Wolf's Head Theater Company. So begins a campaign to identify arts-loving individuals and businesses who will put the two relatively new theater groups on ... Continue Reading
OfficeMax to Close
OFFICE MAX IN Marquette will be closing up shop by mid-November, according to employees. Reportedly the lease on the property is up, and the business will not be relocating. The company is now working to either transfer employees to other locations or to help them find other jobs locally. OfficeMax has been advising ... Continue Reading
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