How to enforce an executive order? SOME PHOTOS FROM Marquette's beaches this weekend were not reassuring. Hundreds of mostly young people crammed together enjoying the sun, the sand, and the lake, and totally ignoring any guidelines about social distancing. Could anything have been done about it? A few police officers ... Continue Reading
Too Many Pot Stores? Not Enough? Also, the Latest on the Delayed Cancer Surgery
Increasing availability of recreational marijuana FOUR MONTHS AGO, we wondered aloud whether Marquette was about to become Pot City USA. Back then, assistant city manager Sean Hobbins estimated that, based on interest he had seen, maybe five shops might open in the city in the first year of recreational ... Continue Reading
Questions About Farmer Q’s, Room at the Inn’s Shrinking Numbers, and Who’s Ordering 98 Sandwiches?
Produce or pot? IS A BIG change coming to Farmer Q's, the popular, little, family-owned grocery store in south Marquette? Sure looks that way. The Marquette Planning Commission recently approved a marijuana special use permit application for the Farmer Q's location, which means that Farmer Q's will be converted to a ... Continue Reading
Closures, Restrictions Mount
"I'VE NEVER SEEN anything like it, " says Zach Quinnell, the store manager for Econo Foods in Marquette. "I wouldn't call it panic but we've been very busy." He's right. You walk in the store the last few days and there's three or four customers in every line even in mid-afternoon, but the store is not being overrun by ... Continue Reading