Marquette, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Scott Usitalo, president of Kimberly-Clark’s Family Care division, will be the featured speaker at Michigan Technological University’s Midyear Commencement tomorrow. At commencement, MTU will honor the achievements of more than 400 graduates, including 296 students receiving bachelor’s degrees, 109 master’s degree recipients and 23 PhD graduates. Usitalo […]

Marquette, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Northern Michigan University alumnus Ernie Telford of Thousand Oaks, California, will be the keynote speaker at NMU’s December commencement tomorrow. He also will receive an honorary doctor of business degree. Charlotte Cialek of South Lyon, Mich., will be the student speaker. NMU’s commencement will be held at […]

Marquette, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Northern Michigan University’s Board of Trustees has voted to make the University tobacco-free as of August 1st, 2014. The Board approved a work group recommendation that cigarettes, chewing tobacco and e-cigarettes be prohibited from all campus areas. The only exceptions to the ban would be public sidewalks […]

Marquette, MI – (Great  Lakes Radio News) – Officials with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan presented a grant of $100,000 to a Marquette County clinic this morning. The Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center in Gwinn received the grant to address depression and substance abuse in patients age 13 years and up, and integrate […]

Marquette, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Authorities responded to a single-vehicle rollover traffic accident this morning in Marquette County’s Negaunee Township. The accident happened around 10:15 a.m. on U.S. 41 when an eastbound pickup truck went out of control and hit the median near the Carp River. The pickup rolled over and ended […]