THE WHEELS OF government turn slowly. But they generally do turn. Case in point: Recycling in Marquette. Several months back, we learned that glass had not been recycled here in years even though most residents thought it had been. It was just being dumped. Critics cried out in protest. City leaders listened. Waste ... Continue Reading
Westwood Mall Sold
Photo: Jason McCarthy THE BELEAGUERED WESTWOOD Mall is about to get a facelift. And likely a lot more. It's been sold by E B L & S Property Management in three segments to three different developers. The main part of the mall (including the former Penneys and Younkers spaces) has been sold to a group out of ... Continue Reading
New Hospital Prepping for its Debut
TWO MONTHS AND counting. The new UPHS hospital on US-41 is scheduled to open in April. No specific date announced yet. The painting's being finished up, furniture installed, cosmetic touches added. Occupancy will actually start in March. But the actual move of the patients in April? That'll be interesting. All ... Continue Reading
Marquette to Welcome New Artists-in-Residence
THREE TALENTED FOLKS are coming to town on March 1st. They'll be Marquette's newest artists-in-residence. Its the continuation of a three year program started last year designed to bring artistic and digital talent to our community, and expose Marquette to the rest of the country. The three chosen this year, after ... Continue Reading
Discord at Community Action Alger-Marquette
A LITTLE BIT of deja vu these days at Community Action Alger-Marquette. The nonprofit agency (formerly known as AMCAB) helps low income residents with housing (eg Grandview Marquette), nutrition, early childhood education, and utility subsidies, but for the second time in a year, it's been hit with trouble near the ... Continue Reading
New GM Named at Marquette Mountain
(Photo: Cory Genovese) AFTER WEEKS OF controversy and dissension on Marquette Mountain, Frank Malette is out as general manager, and 27 year old Andrew Farron, a mechanical engineer, is in. The announcement was made at 3 pm Monday afternoon. Farron and Marquette Mountain owner Pete O'Dovero had been having discussions ... Continue Reading
New Owners for Trenary Home Bakery
ONE OF THE UP'S iconic companies is in new hands. Trenary Home Bakery, the makers of Trenary Toast, changed ownership at the start of the year. The new owners? Two 26-year-old NMU graduates, Marco Dossena and Brianna Wynsma (above photo), and Dossena's mother, Annunciata Cerioli, who lives in Miami. Dossena and ... Continue Reading
Burger King Property Sold… Again
LET THE GUESSING game begin again. The old Burger King property on West Washington Street? The one that was sold to Sorenson Development of Gwinn last summer? It's been sold again, to an as yet undisclosed buyer. "We've sold it, but I can't say anything else about the sale," says Tammy Baez, Sorenson's office ... Continue Reading
The Acupuncture Virgin
FOR MOST OF us who grew up in this country, with its reverence for Western medicine, it just sounds weird. Sticking needles in your skin all over your body? And expecting them to make you feel better? Seriously?? Yet acupuncture has been around for 3000 years, and increasingly western doctors are accepting it as a ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk: Travis Alexander
Brian Cabell sits down and talks to the popular and relentlessly positive Travis Alexander, the YMCA's director of personal training and fitness. BC: Where were you born and raised? TA: I was born in northern Illinois but raised in Mercer, Wisconsin. We moved up there when I was about four years old. BC: What was ... Continue Reading
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