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
Hope for Munising’s Housing Crunch
FOLKS ARE ALWAYS saying it's tough to find good, affordable housing in Marquette. In Munising, it may be worse. "The housing situation is critical here," says Mayor Rod Desjardins, "but the city is working with a developer from Detroit right now looking for a solution." The plans haven't been firmed up yet and no ... Continue Reading
Shake-up at Room at the Inn
DOUG RUSSELL IS out as the executive director at Room at the Inn. No reason given for what Russell refers to as his "termination" which occurred on Thursday. "The Board is looking for new leadership," Ryan Redmond says. He's been manager at the Warming Center and is now acting as interim executive director at Room at ... Continue Reading
Local Bakers on Food Network
Two well-known local foodies are about to bask in the national television limelight. Joe Heck, a.k.a. the "cake guy" at Huron Mountain Bakery, and Marybeth Kurtz, of Midtown Bakery fame, along with their delightful confections will soon be featured on the Food Network. The two were recently selected to appear as a ... Continue Reading
Solar Farm in the UP?
A 1200 ACRE tract of land south of Sawyer International Airport could be the site of a major solar farm in the U.P. Marquette resident Rich Vander Veen, best known for having jump-started the wind power movement in Michigan, is teaming up with Tradewind Energy on the project. They've leased 1200 acres where they've ... Continue Reading
Jazz Club Hopes Are Dimming
IT SURE SOUNDED like a great idea at the time. And it still might happen, but the plans for a new jazz club at an old railroad depot in downtown Marquette have been put on hold. Attorney, trumpeter, and jazz aficionado Karl Numinen bought the building a year ago and announced plans to open a jazz club that would ... Continue Reading
Veridea to Buy Old Hospital Site
IT'S THE STORY everybody's been asking about for a couple of years, and now we have an answer. The Veridea Group, the Marquette-based development firm, has signed an agreement to buy the old hospital site after it's vacated next year, and will convert it to a mixed use development--offices, residences, retail shops, ... Continue Reading
Beacon House Sale Falls Through
DISAPPOINTMENT. FRUSTRATION. AND hope. That basically summarizes the mood of Beacon House CEO Mary Dowling today (Friday). The deal to buy the old Beacon House property on Third Street--the one that looked so promising just a couple of weeks ago--has fallen through. "Finance issues" were the problem. The ... Continue Reading
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