Name that Airport! At the Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting this past Tuesday, the agenda included a Public Hearing regarding the proposal to come up with a new handle for Sawyer International. What’s that you say? You’re just getting used to Sawyer International after years of calling it Marquette County ... Continue Reading
2023 – The Year in Preview
With 2022 now a not-so-distant memory, it’s time to look forward at what we can anticipate seeing happen around here in ’23. It seemed like planners were real busy last year but planning and producing are two different things. I wouldn’t suggest that any of the developments currently on the drawing board are ... Continue Reading
Pickleball • Brand New Brand • Brits and Brews
A Place for Pickleball It was a few decades ago when playing tennis meant finding a facility and waiting impatiently for a court to open up. American stars like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, and Chris Evert kept the sport in the public eye and it reached its peak in popularity. Then, for whatever reason, tennis saw a ... Continue Reading
Travel Troubles at Sawyer
REMEMBER THAT DAY back in 1985 when NMU went big-time with the opening of an official Olympic training center? Northern joined the likes of Lake Placid and Colorado Springs as the only communities in the country with a designated United States Olympic Committee training site. We were finally on the map! Kind ... Continue Reading
Spaceport Liftoff?
A ROCKET LAUNCH SITE... REALLY? Initially it was easy to write this off as another crazy idea that would burn out faster than a 4th of July sparkler. A Spaceport in Marquette County? On the Granot Loma property? On the shore of Lake Superior? Sounds improbable. But this morning the group of industrialists ... Continue Reading