"I FEEL LIKE I can breathe again." That's stroke victim Anna Dravland reflecting on a momentous weekend for her. The 35-year-old NMU grad, after a year of struggling with her health and finding herself unable to hold a job, had run out of money. She'd given notice to her landlord and was facing the threat of her gas ... Continue Reading
“I Don’t Know What Else to Do”
THE LAST FOURTEEN months haven't been kind to Marquette resident Anna Dravland. The next few months may be even bleaker. In November of 2017, at age 34, she suffered a stroke, which we chronicled in Word on the Street. She survived but not without debilitating damage. She could hardly walk and talk at first, but with ... Continue Reading
Public Defender’s Office to Open in Marquette
MARQUETTE COUNTY WILL be opening up a brand new Public Defender's Office next month. Until now, the courts have assigned a rotating list of 12-15 attorneys to represent clients who couldn't afford attorneys' fees. The new set-up will change that. The Public Defender's Office will be assigned most of those cases from now ... Continue Reading
It’s a Yooper Thing
IT'S NOT THE kind of road trip Jed Jacobson enjoys making, but a necessary one. A Christmas day drive alone from his home in Ann Arbor to his home in Harvey. He does it every year. He has family in both towns so he spends Christmas Eve with his elderly mother and his siblings in Ann Arbor, then wakes up on Christmas ... Continue Reading
Changes Mandated at Lakestate Industries
THE RUMOR'S BEEN out there for a while--Lakestate Industries out on M-28 is closing down! Nope. Untrue. The private nonprofit agency, which provides employment and training for the intellectually disabled, is not closing down but it will be undergoing changes in the next couple months as required by federal ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk: Surfer Dan
PHOTO CREDIT: JAKE MILLER He lives in an RV in a trailer park, he grows medical marijuana, and he surfs Lake Superior all year round. Daniel Schetter, alias Surfer Dan, is one of a kind. He sat down and talked to Brian Cabell about his life and his philosophy. BC: Where'd you grow up, Dan? DS: I was born and raised ... Continue Reading
The 1st Annual Holiday Herald
This Christmas we started a new feature called The Holiday Herald, where anyone would get the chance to submit an anonymous (or not so anonymous) message for all of our readers to see. We want to thank everyone for participating! Half of the proceeds we've received from this will be donated to the Marquette Women's ... Continue Reading
A Different Kind of Christmas Story
SHAWN SALO DOESN'T much believe in the joy of the holiday season. He lives alone, he's not religious, and he's been chronically depressed since he was fifteen. But wait! There's more to this story than you might think. This isn't just another one of those "Christmastime leads to depression" stories. Shawn's forty ... Continue Reading
Lee Francisco’s Next Challenge
ONE OF MARQUETTE'S technology pioneers has left 906 Technologies, the company he founded thirteen years ago, and has moved on to a new challenge. Lee Francisco is the president of the start-up Agrimote Solutions which has invented a sensor that can monitor the soil moisture of thousands of individual plants ... Continue Reading
The Room at the Inn Firing: What Really Happened
IT CAME AS a surprise--even a shock--to many of us. Doug Russell, the highly respected executive director of Room at the Inn and this community's leading advocate for the homeless, was terminated. Fired. It seemed to come out of the blue, totally unexpected. And unfair, as well. After all, the man wasn't making a ton ... Continue Reading
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