NO MORE NIGHTLIFE at Coco's. Some may cheer, some may groan, but it's true. The restaurant on Lakeshore Boulevard, which staged 70 nighttime events over the last year and a half--some of them loud, some of them racy, most of them just plain fun--will no longer be a nighttime entertainment venue. Owner Jackie Gonda ... Continue Reading
LSCP Rumors: True , Untrue, or Somewhere in Between?
RUMORS ABOUT THE Lake Superior Community Partnership have been flying around town the last day or so. Turns out, they may be a bit exaggerated. But still significant. The story is this: LSCP has just lost its designation as the lead economic development agency for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in the ... Continue Reading
Radio Stations Sold, Shoe Store Opens, Farmers Market Prepares, New Food Truck Debuts, Hospice Group Is Moving, and Musical Prodigy Amazes
CHANGES IN THE Marquette radio scene. A Wisconsin-based radio company, Armada Media Partners, has bought the Eagle Radio Group stations in Marquette and Escanaba. Those include 94.9 The Bay, 100.3 The Point, 96.7 Yooper Country, and 107.3 The Eagle. The new owners say all personnel at the stations will continue in ... Continue Reading
Dismal Hospital Ratings, Wine Bar Plans, Homeless Boathouse, Eroding Presque Isle, NMU Apathy, Trenary Toast, and Skateboard Picassos
UH OH. Ya wanna root for your hometown hospital, but the latest ratings released by a national nonprofit group that measures hospital safety gives you pause. Leapfrog Group rates hospitals based on factors like infections, bed sores, falls, embolisms, staff hand washing, leaving objects in a patient's body during ... Continue Reading
StraightTalk with Dan Perkins
Brian Cabell talks to a fascinating personality, Dan Perkins. He owns a roofing business but, more important, he founded the Partridge Creek Farm, an educational farming organization that's taking revolutionary steps to grow crops in Ishpeming, teach young people how to farm, and create jobs for a community that sorely ... Continue Reading
Cambensy to Challenge Kivela
Marquette City Commissioner Sara Cambensy filed today to run for 109th District State House Representative. She's running against John Kivela, a two-term representative and former mayor of Marquette. Cambensy and Kivela are both running as Democrats. The winner will be decided in the August 2 Primary election, and ... Continue Reading
Perkins to Close
Perkins restaurant on US 41 is closing down next Sunday. Employees got the word at an emergency meeting called by the owners, Frank and Linda Stabile, over the weekend. They were informed the restaurant was shutting down for economic reasons. They were told that some of the nearly 50 employees at Perkins might be ... Continue Reading
YMCA Investigation, Ishpeming Mushrooms, Iron Ore Woes, TV News Changes, Presque Isle Erosion, and a Midnight Visit to the ER
AN INVESTIGATOR FROM YMCA USA has been at the local facility this week checking on the financial and operational health of the Y. More national visitors next week. This comes in the wake of the dismissal (or forced resignation) of longtime CEO Lisa Coombs-Gerou two weeks ago amid charges of financial mismanagement. ... Continue Reading
Former Maritime Museum Director Arraigned
A SAD STORY at the Marquette Maritime Museum. The museum's director, Carrie Sue Fries, has been arraigned in District Court on two counts of embezzlement and three counts of forgery. She had been terminated from her job back in December after serving as director for more than 14 years. Total loss, according to a ... Continue Reading
Fraco Sold, Easy Ice Soars, TV Anchor Arrives, Another TV Anchor Pleads, Ore Dock Has Big Plans (Really!)
ONE OF THE Marquette area's best known family businesses is changing hands after more than 60 years. Fraco, known for its masonry, concrete and retaining wall work, is being sold by the Frazier family to the Crimmins family. The deal should be completed by May 1. However. Don't expect any big changes at Fraco ... Continue Reading
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