ONE OF THE Upper Peninsula's most seasoned journalists is about to take a break. WJMN's news director and anchor Cynthia Thompson won't call it "retirement," at least not yet, but she'll be leaving her job in the next two months to take some time off. "I'm excited to hit the neutral button," she explains. "I want to ... Continue Reading
The Race of a Lifetime
IMAGINE SNAPPING ON your cross country skis and then skiing for 220 kilometers straight, taking only brief rests along the way. That's 137 miles. That's almost from here to the Bridge on skis. That's exactly what Tom Mahaney, a local businessman, and Greg Nelson, a local chiropractor, recently accomplished in the Red ... Continue Reading
Real Estate Boom and CBD Sales
ASPIRING FIRST TIME home buyers might not cheer the news, but Marquette homeowners and realtors likely will: the real estate market here is very healthy. Healthy, as in the median sales price for single family homes and condos rose to a record $200,000 last year. That's an increase of $22,000 or 12% over 2017. Median ... Continue Reading
Burgers, Hotel, Bank, Coffee, and More
SOMETHING NEW ON Marquette's culinary scene. Queen City Burgers on US 41 (across from Frei Chevrolet) opens next Monday, pending a final inspection this week by the county mechanical inspector. Local businessmen Dave Guizzetti and Eric Curtis have put a lot of work and money into it. "It's not fast food," Guizzetti ... Continue Reading
Marquette TV Show Planned for this Fall
MARQUETTE AND THE Upper Peninsula will be the stars of a new cable network TV show scheduled to air this fall. AmericanaVista, a two year old network with 825,000 subscribers, has announced it will air "Yooperz!," a weekly one hour sitcom featuring the antics of a lovable but dysfunctional family living in ... Continue Reading
“I’m Just Average. I’ve Got a Lot of Work to Do”
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Eric Banitt of Marquette may have amazed us local folks with his musical skills over the past several years, but according to him, he's now just a regular guy banging away on the piano down at the University of Michigan. Nothing exceptional, he says. He's modest, to say the least. He built a heckuva ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk: Fred Stonehouse
Brian Cabell probes the mind and the life of 70-year-old historian and writer Fred Stonehouse, who also happens to be Marquette's mayor. BC: You're not a native Michigander, right? FS: Right. I was brought up in New Jersey, we had a house down at the seashore. Seaside Park. My mother, father, two brothers and a ... Continue Reading
A Disease with No Name
YOU LOOK AT him and you see a handsome nine-year-old boy. A wave of brown hair swept across his forehead, a shy smile, a gentle voice. But there's more to Will Chittle of Negaunee than that. Much more. His mother Janice, who works out of her home, will tell you about him. "It was a normal birth but then he wasn't ... Continue Reading
From the Anchor Desk to the Pulpit
SHE STILL HAS that trademark smile, that ready laugh, that persistently upbeat attitude. But Vicky Prewitt--formerly Vicky Crystal on TV6--has traded in her anchor's chair for a place on the pulpit, and her wire copy for the Bible. She's now Pastor Vicky at Christ United Methodist Church in Crystal Falls and Grace ... Continue Reading
Discovering New Perspectives
TEDX RETURNS TO Marquette on Saturday. Specifically, the Forest Roberts Theater. And this year, unlike last year, everyone in the community is welcome. "Last year was frustrating," Allison Opheim, the event chairperson. "We were limited in seating and it was only for students. A lot of community members told us they ... Continue Reading
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