Final defendant sentenced in conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine

April 13, 2023

MARQUETTE – U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for the Western District of Michigan today announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sentenced Elizabeth Jean Decota, also known as “Biz,” to 51 months in prison. She was the tenth and final defendant to plead guilty and be sentenced in United States v. Smith, et al., No. 2:22-cr-01. Chief Judge Jarbou imposed the sentence after commenting that the conspiracy had a “significant impact on the community,” bringing in a “significant quantity of methamphetamine to an area” already so heavily impacted by drug ...

Houghton native, NMU student is Sister City scholar in Japan

April 12, 2023

Over the more than four decades that Marquette has had a Sister City relationship with Higashiomi, Japan, Northern Michigan University’s president has sponsored one student from there to attend NMU each year. Now, for the first time, a Northern student is a reciprocal Sister City scholar. ...

Lake Linden – Hubbell Elementary Preschool, Kindergarten registration

April 12, 2023

Lake Linden - Hubbell Elementary will hold a registration day for prospective kindergarten and preschool students from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 26 Students who turn 5 before September 1, 2023 or December 1 (with waiver) are eligible to register for kindergarten. Students who turn ...

Great Lakes preservation group accepts donation from Stephenson National Bank and Trust

March 28, 2023

Great Lakes Scuba Diving & Lake Preservation is a non-profit organization with a goal of cleaning the underwater environment throughout the Great Lakes watershed. The group’s journey started in Marquette where many hours were spent Scuba diving on Lake Superior and witnessing first hand the ...

Matherne selected as 2023-24 Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate

March 23, 2023

U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation Press release The U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of Beverly Matherne to serve as the 2023-24 U.P. Poet Laureate. Matherne is professor emerita of English at Northern Michigan University, where she served as director of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing and poetry editor of Passages North literary magazine. The author of seven books of poetry, she lives in Ishpeming, far from Grand Point, her birthplace on the Mississippi near New Orleans. She is inspired by both the wealth of her Cajun and ...

Faculty exhibit at Finlandia rescheduled for tonight

March 23, 2023

Finlandia University Press release The artist reception for Finlandia University’s 2023 International School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibit has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 23. The event will coincide with Finlandia Art Night and will include the 2023 Faculty Exhibit, a reception and awards presentation for the Finlandia Student Juried Art Exhibit and a cardboard fashion show by Finlandia art and design students. The 2023 faculty exhibit and cardboard fashion show will both take place at the Finlandia University Gallery in the Finnish American Heritage Center from 7 – ...