Category Archives: News

Six Protesters Arrested For Trespassing In Marquette
Six people were arrested in Marquette on Friday after they went inside a downtown business and refused to leave when told to do so. Marquette Police say a total of 12 people went inside the Huron Moun...
Jack Hall Jul 18, 2020

Governor Appoints U.P. Men To State Boards, Commissions
Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced the following appointments to the Commission on Services to the Aging, and to the Michigan Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons. Commission on Servic...
Jack Hall Jul 18, 2020

Visitor To Munising's Glass Bottom Boat Tour Tests Positive
LMAS District Health Department has been informed that a traveler who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited Alger County on July 12, 2020. The only exposure site was the Glass Bottom Boat Tour from...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Governor Extends Orders Allowing Telephone, Video Public Meetings
Governor Whitmer today signed Executive Order 2020-154, which extends previous executive orders to provide temporary alternative means to conduct public meetings, conduct administrative proceedings, a...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Man Gets Trapped Inside Wood Chip Trailer At Paper Mill
On 7-16-20, at approximately 7:30pm, Deputies with the Delta County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the back gate of Verso for a male subject trapped in a wood chip trailer. While preparing to dum...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Marquette Holiday Beach Party Leads To Two Positive Cases
The Marquette County Health Department says that there were two positive COVID-19 cases from the massive beach party that was held on Marquette's McCarty Cove on the 4th of July weekend. The party dre...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

MHSAA: Fall High School Sports To Be Played As Scheduled
Michigan High School Athletic Association member schools will begin the 2020-21 school year playing Fall sports as traditionally scheduled, but with contingency concepts for potential interruptions du...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Michigan Adds 660 New Cases; U.P. Cases Increase By Six
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported Friday afternoon 660 new coronavirus cases and seven new deaths. Michigan now has 72,502 confirmed positive cases and 6,108 COVID-19 death...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Canadian Sentenced For Smuggling Opium Into Upper Peninsula
U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Abdolnasser Mahmoudikanesbi, formerly of Gatineau, Quebec, was sentenced today to serve 42 months' imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker....
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

Peters Wants Details On Postal Service Plans For Rural Areas
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is requesting detailed information on reported changes to the longstanding delivery service...
Jack Hall Jul 17, 2020

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