The Marquette Regional History Center Presents: Third Street: Day and Night, a Video History with Jim Koski Release date August 19, 2020. You may have joined Jim Koski for one of our walking tours in the past. Now is your chance for an up close video history with…
Peter White Public Library Youth Services: Imagine Your Story Book Fair Tuesday August 18-Saturday August 22. Tuesday 1pm-8pm, Wednesday & Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday & Saturday 10am-5pm. Peter White Public Library Parking Lot, under the big white tent. If you registered for the Kids Read! summer reading program and your kids…
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Aug. 14 – The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association today announced it will move the 2020 Fall football season to Spring 2021, due to football’s higher risk for spreading COVID-19, with the rest of Fall sports proceeding as scheduled. The football season switch…
Northern Michigan University will open its Superior Dome to students when classes begin Monday, Aug. 17. Free community access to walk and jog in that facility, as well as the Berry Events Center, will be postponed until Oct. 1. “The October date is tentative, depending on the COVID-19 situation at…
Northern Michigan University’s DeVos Art Museum has launched the first virtual edition of its annual “North of the 45th” exhibition because of COVID-19. The juried show features diverse works from artists living in the geographical area north of the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. “This exhibition, and many other…
Effective Date: Thursday, August 13th Be advised that the Tourist Park waterfront will be re-opening. As of today at 11:00AM, Lifeguards will resume normal hours. As always beach status updates may also be accessed through the City’s website, https://www.marquettemi.gov/departments/fire/waterfront-safety/
Agricultural employers, employees file legal challenge to MDHHS COVID-19 testing mandate An emergency order issued by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Aug. 3 mandating COVID-19 testing by farm employers with 20 or more farmworkers is headed to court. Grand Rapids-based Varnum LLP formally filed motions on…
Personnel from the Michigan Departments of Natural Resources and Environment, Great Lakes and Energy are investigating a fish kill incident along the lower reaches of the Middle Branch of the Escanaba River. The fish kill – which was reported Aug. 9 and responded to by state agencies the following day…
Inland lakes in this region were good for panfish, fair for walleye and very good for pike and bass. Rivers with brook trout had good catch rates. Keweenaw Bay: Anglers had success trolling and jigging for lake trout. A few lucky anglers picked up a couple Chinook and steelhead; however,…
The Marquette Regional History Center Presents: Hands On! Art and History Day Camp August 17-18 & 20-21, 2020 10:00-12:00 each day, at the History Center This is the 7th annual day camp collaboration between the Marquette Regional History Center and Liberty Children’s Art Project! Youth enjoy an immersion into local…