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A Season of Thanks, a School of Thanks

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THE STUDENTS AT Marquette Alternative High School broke bread together Tuesday, celebrating Thanksgiving a little early. More than a hundred of them enjoying food prepared by fellow students and their parents. Normal high-schoolers--in hoodies, hats and heavy jackets, some with radically colored hair, some with ... Continue Reading

Schneider’s Job in Jeopardy

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JASON SCHNEIDER, THE former executive director of the Marquette Chamber of Commerce who left town last spring for a state job in Alaska, may soon be looking for work again. Politics is the apparent culprit. Alaska's recently elected governor, Mike Dunleavy, who takes office on December 3rd, indicated during the campaign ... Continue Reading

Musical Chairs on Third Street

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BIG CHANGES ON Third Street. Fassbender Funeral Home and Swanson-Lundquist Funeral Home, both owned and operated by Jeremy Hansen, are merging into one building--at 926 North third Street, the current home of Swanson-Lundquist. Makes sense. Why have two competing businesses three blocks apart? "My intention all ... Continue Reading

What Happened to All the Deer Hunters?

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THE START OF deer season. Used to be a really big deal here in Michigan. Still is, but not what it was. The Detroit Free Press recently took a look at the numbers and here's what they came up with: 1998...Michigan had 785,000 firearm deer hunters 2017...Michigan had 621,000 firearm deer hunters 2035 ... Continue Reading

Wind Turbines on the Ballot, Stonehouse Gets Honor, and Bohnak Looks Toward Winter

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LOOKS LIKE WIND turbines will be on the ballot in L'Anse Township next spring. The township clerk Monday evening certified 410 signatures on a petition to put the controversial issue on the ballot. The anti-turbine citizens group, Friends of the Huron Mountains, says they needed only about 115 signatures to get ... Continue Reading

The Crib is Opening, and the Mountain is Getting Ready

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SO YOU'RE THINKING we need another coffee shop in town. Good news. The Crib, brought to you by the producers of Crappie Coffee, opens Thursday at the corner of Third Street and Arch. For the last several months, they've been restoring and renovating a building more than a century old, and the results are impressive. A ... Continue Reading

Casino Plans Change, Spectrum Layoffs, Room at the Inn Plans

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CHANGES IN THE expansion plans at the Ojibwa Casino in Harvey. Construction is moving ahead to build an all-new casino and and concert venue, but plans for a 76 room hotel and a convention space have been pushed back for at least a year, maybe more. The rebuilt casino, in fact, will now be larger than at first ... Continue Reading

Cyber Jobs Look Promising, Unemployment Rate Drops, Angel Investors Alter Strategy, Lake Superior Level Rising, Questions Raised About Bike Path, Vollwerth Gets Write-Up, An Artist Entrepreneur, and a Family with 11 Kids

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THIS STORY ISN'T drawing big headlines but it has the potential to provide a major boost to the economy in the Upper Peninsula. NMU has just been designated a cyber security hub, meaning it's going to be a center for training high school and college grads for jobs in the high-paying cyber security industry. Good jobs. ... Continue Reading