Gas prices for 6-24-25
Murphy USA $3.22 Amoco Express $3.27 Circle K $3.26 Caspian Marathon $3.19 Northside Krist $3.25 Kwik Trip $3.26 Island Resort Store $3.22 Big Foot Liquor $3.25
Map display set
MARQUETTE — The Marquette History Center will have maps of the Great Lakes and Marquette County on display from June 23 through Jan. 31. Maps are a valuable tool for seeing history at work. They have been used as an aid to all types of transportation from steamboat routes to today’s single track bike trails. They are also used as a marketing tool, for reference, and entertainment. Patrons can see how mapmakers have sometimes misled their viewers and how the landscape and surroundings have changed. For more information go to marquettehistory.org or call 906-226-3571.
Ski club meets
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Kiwanis Ski Club will have a meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the clubhouse.
Artists sought to create mural at Bates Hall
BATES TOWNSHIP — The Bates Hall Preservation Society is conducting a contest to select an Iron County resident artist to paint an original mural highlighting the township’s farming, logging and mining history. The painting will be about 28-by-5-feet on the north inside wall at 3070 E. U.S. 2. The artists must have demonstrated mural experience to be eligible. For a complete copy of the contest rules, a photo of the wall for mural placement or to visit the hall, contact President Margee Brennan at 906-284-0988. The rules and picture will also be posted on the society’s ...
Protests intensify in LA after National Guard deployment
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire as law enforcement used ...
Mass timber used to construct DNR building
By BUD SARGENT Mining Journal Managing Editor MARQUETTE — A bit of history was made recently east of Marquette in the Luce County village of Newberry. In April, the people responsible for designing and constructing the building that houses the Michigan Department of Natural Resources customer service center came together to mark the facility’s grand opening. Why so much fuss over the opening of a simple 10,000 square foot government structure? Because it is the first in the Upper Peninsula to be built using a material known as mass timber. “It’s a beautiful ...