NO GUARANTEES YET, but there's increasing hope that the city of Marquette and the Noquemanon Trail Network can reach agreement on preserving the bike trails on the Heartwood Forestland Property. The two sides--NTN's Lori Hauswirth and Cary Gottlieb, and city manager Mike Angeli and other city officials--are meeting ... Continue Reading
Freaking Democracy in Action
"THIS IS FREAKING democracy in action!" The words of a woman seated on the floor of the City Commission chambers last evening (Monday). She was surrounded by more than 100 other citizens packed in, elbow to elbow, standing, sitting, kneeling, many straining for a glimpse of speakers politely but fervently telling the ... Continue Reading
Recovery Room Changes, Forestville Ticket Sales, Marquette County’s Uniqueness, Arrivals and Departures at WLUC, and Tennessee Williams Comes to Town
A MANAGEMENT SHAKEUP at the Recovery Room. Patrick Bibb, the managing partner at the pub, and his girlfriend, Danielle DeWitt, the kitchen manager, walked out precipitously last Thursday. Not surprisingly, there were major problems over the weekend. The kitchen closing down, for one. All of it the result of a ... Continue Reading
YMCA’s Audit, Childcare in Ishpeming, Gossard’s New Stores, the B&B Explosion, Munising’s Microbrewery, and a Party Under the Pines
FOR BETTER OR worse, the report on the Marquette County YMCA's financial health is in. The national Y recently completed its emergency audit of the local YMCA and has presented its findings to the local Board of Volunteers. Those findings haven't been made public yet but there's an expectation that could happen in the ... Continue Reading
A Happening in the Forest
HERE'S HOW AN authentic "happening" starts these days. Not with an official announcement in the newspaper, not with TV commercials, not with a city government or some agency taking charge, not with some corporation putting up big bucks to sponsor it, not with Ticketmaster selling all the tickets for a hefty, little ... Continue Reading