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Press Releases

Lake Linden – Hubbell Elementary Preschool, Kindergarten registration

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 ...

Houghton native, NMU student is Sister City scholar in Japan

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. ...

Matherne selected as 2023-24 Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate

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 ...

Faculty exhibit at Finlandia rescheduled for tonight

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 ...

Statewide tornado drill scheduled for March 22

LANSING, MICH. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared March 19-25 as Michigan’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, and the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD) is calling on residents to act by participating in a voluntary statewide tornado drill at 1 ...