Redmen Back on the Agenda For those of you who didn’t attend Monday night’s MAPS School Board meeting, with the Redmen nickname issue being the headliner, I offer my recollection of what I saw and heard over the full 244 minutes. Yes… 244 minutes. That’s four hours and change. First, the crowd was smaller than I ... Continue Reading
Walking the Island • Redmen on the Agenda
Walkers vs Riders IF WE KNOW ONE THING for certain… we know you can’t make everybody happy, all of the time. The recent decision to expand walking hours on Presque Isle undoubtedly left a number of residents both troubled by the process as well as disappointed with the decision. At the same time, there are most ... Continue Reading
Challenging Days for People with FOMO
IF YOU'RE KEEPING UP with 21st century acronyms, you probably know about FOMO, or, the fear of missing out. It’s been defined as, “the feeling or perception that others are having more fun, living better lives, or experiencing better things than you are. It involves a deep sense of envy and affects ... Continue Reading
Still the Redmen… but for how much longer?
MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE THOUGHT the MSHS nickname debate a settled issue, having been decided based on the results of a survey put out by the MAPS Board of Education. Well, it isn’t. At last Monday night’s meeting, board Vice-President Glenn Sarka made a motion to include renewed discussion of what to do about our ... Continue Reading
Moving Out… and Up the Ladder
REGULAR VIEWERS OF LOCAL television news are well aware of, or at least somewhat interested in, the career arc of the reporters and anchors they've gotten to know from their many hours of watching them on the flat screen. Since WLUC-TV came on the air some 67 or so years ago, a fair number of their broadcasters ... Continue Reading
Mastering the Plan
THOSE OF YOU FOLLOWING the progress of the city's work on the new Master Plan were no doubt aware of the two community feedback sessions hosted by officials this week. According to Dennis Stachewicz, Director of Planning and Community Development, the workshops were intended to gather the community’s ideas on ... Continue Reading
Mining Their Business
HAVE YOU BOUGHT ANYTHING for a nickel lately? Probably not. A nickel doesn’t buy what it used to. I remember a pinball machine that you could play for a nickel. You could get a candy bar for a nickel. And if you had two nickels, the opportunities were endless! Now… not so much. But nickel… the mineral, ... Continue Reading
Dancing with the Digneits • Summer Fun at the Mountain • More Words
Diggin’ and Dancin' Did you see the results of last week’s 8th edition of Dancing with our Stars? You do know about Dancing with our Stars, don’t you? Unless you’ve been off the grid for the past month, you’re surely aware of the annual dance-off fundraiser for the U.P. Hospice Foundation, presented by Upper Peninsula ... Continue Reading
Work Words… on the Street
WHAT HAS YOUR attention today? Panera Bread and Texas Roadhouse going up out in Marquette Township? The onset of the new Social District about to be launched in downtown Marquette? A new hotel on the lakefront? My guess is you’re probably not thinking a lot about the Career Technical Education program coming ... Continue Reading
Marquette’s Homeless • Camp County USA • A Word about a Dumpster
More about this photo later in the post. Until then… More Homeless THE ISSUE THAT KEEPS coming up in informal discussions across the city is… the homeless. We’ve written about it here multiple times and each time the problem seems to have gotten worse. Our city leaders can acknowledge the problem, and agree that ... Continue Reading
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