Category Archives: News

Downtown Marquette Farmer's Market Preparing For 2024 Season
The Downtown Marquette Farmers Market (DMFM) is looking for farmers, growers, food producers, artisans, musicians, and local community organizations to be part of the 2024 market season. With flexible...
Jack Hall Mar 01, 2024

U.P. Lawmakers Demand Answers On Ontonagon Hospital Closure
Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman joined with Michigan State Senator Ed McBroom and State Representative Greg Markkanen in sending a letter to the CEO of Aspirus Health, demanding answers and a...
Jack Hall Feb 29, 2024

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Reports Small Decline In Visitors
CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL'S INTERVIEW WITH HANNAH BRADBURN, PICTURED ROCKS The National Park Service announced that 400 national parks reported a total of 325.5 million visits in 2023. Pictured Rocks Na...
Jack Hall Feb 28, 2024

VA Medical Center Plans Nine Town Hall Meetings In U.P., Wisconsin
Members of the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center (OGJVAMC) leadership and outreach teams will travel around northern Wisconsin and the central region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to host nine V...
Jack Hall Feb 28, 2024

Two Upper Peninsula Communities Get $2.5 Million In Federal Grants
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rural Development State Director for Michigan Brandon Fewins today announced $2,575,000 in loans and grants for two Upper Peninsula communities. "This funding is the culminat...
Jack Hall Feb 28, 2024

THIN ICE: Another Fisherman Rescued On Big Bay deNoc
On 2-26-24, at about 12:25pm, Deputies with the Delta County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to Big Bay de Noc, near Fayette State Park. A man walked out onto the ice to go fishing. A large piece of ...
Jack Hall Feb 27, 2024

Congressman Bergman Wants Approval Of Border Security Legislation
Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman issued the following statement after 19 illegal immigrants were caught in Grand Traverse County and taken to Sault Ste. Marie for processing. Read the story he...
Jack Hall Feb 27, 2024

Markkanen Calls On Colleagues To Approve School Safety Legislation
State Rep. Greg Markkanen, a former teacher with over 35 years of experience, is calling for the House Education Committee to consider a bipartisan school safety package introduced last year. The 13-b...
Jack Hall Feb 27, 2024

Sault Tribe Holding Another Health Care Town Hall Meeting On Wednesday
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is seeking community input that will help shape the future of the healthcare services the tribe provides to the region. The tribe will hold a Town Hall m...
Jack Hall Feb 27, 2024

Multiple People Go Through Ice Of Little Bay deNoc; South Carolina Man Dies
The Delta County Sheriff's Office responded to two separate ice rescue calls over the weekend on Little Bay deNoc. On Saturday February 24th at 6:25am dispatch received a call that a four wheeler had ...
Jack Hall Feb 26, 2024

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