MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The 20th annual Fire Prevention Week in Marquette County will kick off with a display of county fire trucks and a parade tomorrow morning in Marquette. The display of firefighting apparatus from every department in Marquette County will be assembled at Harlow [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The U.P. Regional Blood Center, a service of Marquette General, is currently in critical need of O-negative and O-positive blood throughout all of their service areas in the Upper Peninsula. The need is high in Marquette, Escanaba, Hancock, Iron Mountain and Sault Ste. Marie. Blood Center staff [...]
Continue reading …Public Sessions To Start Requarding Personal Watercraft Use in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Park
October 4, 2012 No Comment
MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The National Park Service is starting a new planning process about the use of personal watercrafts on Lake Superior within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The new process is needed after a federal court ruling issued in 2010. The Park Service prepared a previous regulation to allow [...]
Continue reading …Gladstone Man in Court After Running Stolen Vehicle into Public Safety Building
October 4, 2012 No Comment
MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – A Delta County man who ran a stolen vehicle into the headquarters of the Gladstone Public Safety Department in August appeared in court yesterday on a series of related charges. 33-year-old Robert Anderson of Gladstone was in Delta County Circuit Court on charges of vehicle theft, possession [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Dickinson County authorities say an Iron Mountain man was severely burned this week when a suspected meth lab exploded in his home. Police were called to Dickinson County Memorial Hospital Tuesday night on a report of a man being admitted with severe chemical burns on his body. [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Governor Rick Snyder is weighing in on the first presidential debate. Snyder says while the debate highlighted many challenges facing our nation that are also concerns in the state; Michigan is proof that these challenges can be overcome. The Governor says Michigan is an excellent role model [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Authorities are continuing the investigation into an attempt to smuggle illegal drugs into Marquette Branch Prison. State Police from the Negaunee Post and correction department officials say a woman attempted to throw a package containing illegal drugs over a fence to an inmate in a lower security [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Target stores could help Michigan State Police in the event of a major disaster in the state. Reports say the Minneapolis-based retailer recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division. Michigan State Police spokeswoman Nicole Lisbeth says the [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Secretary of State Ruth Johnson is reminding residents they have a week to register to vote in the November 6 general election. The deadline is Tuesday, October 9. Voters may register by mail, at their county, city or township clerk’s office, or by visiting any Secretary of [...]
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MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – A recently awarded federal grant is being used to establish a 320 acre community forest in Houghton County’s Portage Township. The Department of Natural Resources worked with the grant recipient, the Keweenaw Land Trust, to secure funding from the [...]
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