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Big Boy Expands, Library Cafe Closes, Dancing with Our Stars Still Has Tickets, Hockeyville Money Still Unspent, Marquette Gets More Praise, So Does the Zephyr

By Brian Cabell on April 29, 2017 at 5:45 am

BIG BOY IS expanding its restaurant. It'll be building another room off the back of the main restaurant in the next month or two--enough to handle another 50-60 diners. Why? Business is good, up about 50% from when it opened 10 years ago. In addition, the closures of Perkins and Bonanza, both up the road on US-41, ... Continue Reading

Nurses Negotiate with the Hospital Amid Tension, Layoffs and Outsourcing

By Brian Cabell on April 26, 2017 at 5:45 am

IT HASN'T GOTTEN much play in the media, but the nurses' union has just begun negotiations on a new contract with UP Health System-Marquette. It comes at a time when the brand spanking new $300 million dollar hospital arises alongside US-41...and when a quiet sense of turmoil and uncertainty lingers in the halls of the ... Continue Reading

Rippling River Resort, Insurance Shake-up, Great Lakes Threat, Teal Lake Dilemma, Praise for Marquette, and an Escape Room

By Brian Cabell on April 22, 2017 at 5:45 am

BIG CHANGES ON M-553, just north of Marquette Mountain. If you've driven by recently, you've probably noticed a major construction zone. Thirty seven acres, soon to be the Rippling River Resort, alongside the Carp River. The project was approved a few months back, and now you can see that it's going to change the ... Continue Reading

Sweet Water Becomes “Bodega,” Cognition Searches for a Solution (and Maybe a Location), and McCabe’s Finds a Spot on the Highway

By Brian Cabell on April 18, 2017 at 5:45 am

THE SWEET WATER cafe is no more. One of Marquette's favored dining spots on Third Street has been renamed Cafe Bodega (meaning: a small store that sells groceries and wine). The new sign went up Monday afternoon. It's the latest and most visible change instituted by the new owners Leslie Seratti and Libby Nelson ... Continue Reading

A Woman Unlike Any Other

By Brian Cabell on April 9, 2017 at 5:45 am

"WHAT THE F*** happened?!" Aoy exclaims into her cell phone. Steam rises from the huge pot of soup she's stirring on the stove. A mini-crisis has broken out at the Rice Paddy, her restaurant on Presque Isle Street. It's 10:30 am. Two-hundred eighty pounds of chicken wasn't delivered on time. "You better have my ... Continue Reading

Cave-In Reported at Pictured Rocks

By Brian Cabell on April 1, 2017 at 5:45 am

AUTHORITIES CONFIRM THERE was a minor cave-in at the Pictured Rocks National Seashore last evening. The mishap was apparently caused by exploratory drilling being conducted by the Australian mining conglomerate, Weeraub-Yubleinde Ltd, headquartered in Melbourne. "Three of our employees were injured in the incident," ... Continue Reading

Iron Bay Prepares to Open, So Does Mystery Business, Short Term Rental Ordinance Poised for Passage, Sawyer Airport Prospects Brighten, CR 595 Is Hopeful, and NMU Professor Is “On Call” for More Protests

By Brian Cabell on March 27, 2017 at 5:45 am

FIRST THE RECOVERY Room, then the Delft, then Digs, and now the Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery (formerly L'Attitude). New and re-fashioned restaurants and bars are popping up downtown seemingly every month. The latest on the Iron Bay: They'll be taking applications for employees within a couple of weeks. They hope ... Continue Reading

A Mother’s Nightmare, a Community’s Responsibility

By Brian Cabell on March 22, 2017 at 5:45 am

WE DON'T LIKE to talk about teen suicide. It's uncomfortable. It's frightening. But this isn't about teen suicide. It's about pre-teen suicide. Almost incomprehensible. Actually, it's a suicide attempt, and currently, the 11 year old boy is lying in a bed at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor on life support. ... Continue Reading

Digs to Open, St. Paddy’s in the Street, NeuroTrainer with a Mystery Client, Tracey’s Gets Rave Reviews, Bergman Planning Town Halls, High Schoolers Win First Ever Honor, and a Double Battle Against Cancer

By Brian Cabell on March 15, 2017 at 5:45 am

WE'LL BE GETTING our first look at Digs, the new downtown gastropub, this Friday. The new owners, their friends and family have been working their butts off for the last several weeks whipping it into a newly configured shape that will make it more suitable as an entertainment venue, with a stage...and less of a drinking ... Continue Reading

Coaster ll for Sale, Houseboats in the Harbor, the Exodus of Sports Stores, and New Shops Downtown, Including a Piercing Boutique

By Brian Cabell on March 9, 2017 at 5:45 am

MARQUETTE'S OFFICIAL FLAGSHIP is up for sale. The Coaster ll, the 43 foot long schooner that's been docked here in Marquette for the last ten years and has given tourists memorable rides along the coast of Lake Superior, is listed at $126,000. Captain Niko Economides says he's selling it because of his health ... Continue Reading