"I FEEL LIKE I can breathe again." That's stroke victim Anna Dravland reflecting on a momentous weekend for her. The 35-year-old NMU grad, after a year of struggling with her health and finding herself unable to hold a job, had run out of money. She'd given notice to her landlord and was facing the threat of her gas ... Continue Reading
A Different Kind of Christmas Story
SHAWN SALO DOESN'T much believe in the joy of the holiday season. He lives alone, he's not religious, and he's been chronically depressed since he was fifteen. But wait! There's more to this story than you might think. This isn't just another one of those "Christmastime leads to depression" stories. Shawn's forty ... Continue Reading
Cyber Jobs Look Promising, Unemployment Rate Drops, Angel Investors Alter Strategy, Lake Superior Level Rising, Questions Raised About Bike Path, Vollwerth Gets Write-Up, An Artist Entrepreneur, and a Family with 11 Kids
THIS STORY ISN'T drawing big headlines but it has the potential to provide a major boost to the economy in the Upper Peninsula. NMU has just been designated a cyber security hub, meaning it's going to be a center for training high school and college grads for jobs in the high-paying cyber security industry. Good jobs. ... Continue Reading
One Marquette Place Shapes Up, Wind War Heats Up, Yooperlites Are Glowing, Halloween Spectacle Cancelled, NMU Soccer Rising, Greywalls Praised (Again), and Surfer Dan Takes a Starring Role
CLEARLY NOT EVERYBODY'S thrilled with Marquette's changing skyline on the lakeshore--and One Marquette Place is tall--but you gotta admit it's not a bad-looking building. Kinda handsome, in fact. Not all flat and boxy and unimaginative. While the exterior continues to take shape, architect and co-developer Barry ... Continue Reading
Panera Rumors, Windmill Controversy, NMU Enrollment, Sol Azteca Staffing, Munising’s Celebrity, Magazine Awards, and an Actor’s Departure
THAT VACANT BURGER King store on West Washington Street? It's gonna be a Panera or Dunkin' Donuts, right? Uh, no. Or probably not. The recent buyer of the property, as it turns out, is Sorenson Development, a family-owned commercial and residential developer out of Gwinn. "We'd love to talk to Panera or Dunkin' ... Continue Reading