“A good tactic is one that your people enjoy” by Walter Wink
John Taylor is a local artist from Marquette. John is currently working on a comic book about Kennecott’s Eagle Project that he will have finished and printed in the next couple of weeks. John frequently visits our office for information and updates [...]
Meet Director Kristi Mills
I was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan, my family spending ample hours enjoying Michigan’s natural environment. On my first visit to the UP in 1977 for an NMU orientation session, stopping at a roadside park to eat my bologna sandwich, I watched the dance of a [...]
By Wendy Johnson
A quote from my 7-year-old daughter, when commenting on the cutting along County Road 550 as we were driving to Marquette yesterday: “The road doesn’t even look like our road! It looks like we are downstate or something!”
I am asking for Alger Delta Electric Co-op to HALT the clear cutting on CR 550 [...]
The Marquette County Planning Commission will hold a public meeting on June 4th, 2008. According to planner, Eric Anderson, “This hearing is part of the process to incorporate the Hazard Mitigation Plan into the County’s comprehensive plan. In addition, we will be encouraging cities and townships in Marquette County to adopt the plan.
The Plan has [...]
Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
On the morning of April 28, a roomful of lawyers in the basement of Lansing’s vast Constitution Hall blinked at slides of a snow-covered cabin next to a woodland stream and beaver pond.
Rico Torreano, a burly corrections officer at Marquette Branch Prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, took the [...]
As Michiganders, we are constantly reminded of our role as guardians of 20% of the planet’s fresh surface water. This immense responsibility is hard to comprehend while we are literally surrounded by waves of blue. OAS_AD(’ArticleFlex_1′);
But the urgency of establishing strong water security measures is beginning to settle in on many of us. Undeniably, market [...]
Crown pillar discussed at hearing
By JOHN PEPIN, Journal Munising Bureau
POSTED: May 19, 2008
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MARQUETTE — After today’s three scheduled environmental witnesses, testimony in a downstate contested case hearing is expected to shift to witnesses for the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The hearing, which is entering its third week of testimony in Lansing, is considering a challenge to a DEQ decision to grant [...]
The Michigan state police have been notified of an attack on a Big Bay man at his home over the weekend. Robert Pryor of Big Bay was assaulted by three unknown males in the late hours of the evening at his cabin, which is located in a remote area of Champion Township near Big Bay. [...]
For Immediate Release, May 5, 2008:
Contact:
Marvin Roberson (906) 360-0288
The Sierra Club today chastised the US Fish and Wildlife Service for changing their
mind on holding hearings on the proposed listing of the Coaster brook trout as an
endangered species. The Sierra Club is one of two organizations petitioning the federal
agency to list the Coaster brook trout under [...]
