HUGE HONOR FOR Marquette's Greywalls Golf Course. It's now ranked by the prestigious Golf Digest magazine as the 54th best public course in the nation. It had never been ranked in the Top 100 until this year. So why the sudden, dramatic change? "We've never been able to qualify for ratings with Golf Digest because ... Continue Reading
A New Restaurant Comes to Munising, Vicky’s Successor Named, LaCombe Takes on New Role, Travel Marquette’s New Director Making Plans, Marquette’s Leading a National Poll, Podcaster Looking for Stories, and the British Are Coming!!
TACOS IN MUNISING. Yep, they're coming to town by the end of May at the site of the old taco restaurant that shut down a couple of years ago after just a few days. And the new owners, Tom and Amie Nolan, are keeping the same name, Taco Primo, but with a different logo. A full Mexican menu, Amie says. Enchiladas, ... 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
Northwoods to Become Brewery
SO YOU'VE BEEN wondering when someone was finally going to do something with the old, closed-down but charming Northwoods Supper Club in Marquette Township? Well, now we know. It'll become the Barrel and Beam Brewery next summer. Yep, a craft brewery with a focus on farmhouse and barrel-aged style beers. The brews ... Continue Reading
Dismal Hospital Ratings, Wine Bar Plans, Homeless Boathouse, Eroding Presque Isle, NMU Apathy, Trenary Toast, and Skateboard Picassos
UH OH. Ya wanna root for your hometown hospital, but the latest ratings released by a national nonprofit group that measures hospital safety gives you pause. Leapfrog Group rates hospitals based on factors like infections, bed sores, falls, embolisms, staff hand washing, leaving objects in a patient's body during ... Continue Reading