"WE NEED TO raise funds if we're going to sustain our growth." The words of Jamie Weeder, the cofounder and director of Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival and Wolf's Head Theater Company. So begins a campaign to identify arts-loving individuals and businesses who will put the two relatively new theater groups on ... Continue Reading
Johnny Dogs Disappointment, Munising Radio Changes, and a Rooftop Garden
ONE OF THE Upper Peninsula's most popular restaurants is down for the summer. Johnny Dogs in Munising. John Flanders, the founder, owner, and chef, suffered a heart attack several weeks back, underwent surgery, and is now recuperating. He'll need some time--the restaurant's Facebook site says it'll be closed for a few ... Continue Reading
The Latest on Coco’s, the Barricade Downtown, Room at the Inn Hopes, the Birth of Marquette Today, Skanska-Closner Building’s Future, Benri Sushi Plans, Sunny FM Changes, and Love for Munising and Marquette
THE FOR SALE sign at Coco's has disappeared leading some to wonder whether the restaurant's been sold. Nope. It's just being listed with a new realtor, Gina Feltner Bouws of RE/MAX. She tells us a new For Sale sign is being prepared and should go up soon. Coco's, on Lakeshore Boulevard across from the beach, has ... Continue Reading
Pastries on Washington, 906 Technologies Goes to Milwaukee, Construction Boom Jobs, Marquette’s Secret Is Out, a New Football Show, and Blues Sensations
THINGS ARE ABOUT to get a little sweeter on West Washington Street. Gophers, the pastry shop on Third Street, is going to relocate to the building vacated by Bella Beads a few months back. The move will take place before October 1st. Two reasons for the move according to the owners: Gophers' current building is being ... Continue Reading
New Mall and Hotel Readies a Site, NeuroTrainer Takes the Plunge, Dark Store Optimism, Kivela’s Case, a Munising TV Studio, and Partridge Creek Expansion
THEY'RE NOT QUITE ready to schedule a ribbon cutting, but that large hotel and upscale mall development in Marquette Township is moving closer to reality. You may have seen the land being cleared on the hill just north of Lowe's--that's to make way for the Up the Sky development. Specifically, that's where a 300-400 room ... Continue Reading