MARQUETTE — Every spring, we celebrate Earth Day. Pope Francis encourages students to “Laudato Si”: take care of our common home. Although students do this year around, we do special activities during Earth Week and Sustainability Week. Father Marquette students were to fill out ...

MARQUETTE — Two local girls, ages 10 and 11, achieved Memory Master status this month after memorizing more than 600 facts and completing four separate oral testing events with 100% accuracy. Classical Conversations students from the Marquette CC community who successfully completed the ...

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University chemistry students recently gave presentations at the national American Chemistry Society conference in San Diego, California, and at the American Chemistry Society Annual Upper Peninsula Research Symposium held at NMU. Gino Pacifico, a senior ...

MARQUETTE — What’s cuter than an event called “Baby Bear”? The Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum is partnering with the Ore Dock Brewing Co. for Baby Bear, set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ore Dock, located at 114 W. Spring St., Marquette. There will be arts and crafts ...

I started biking without training wheels around the age of five. My family would normally do normal biking on the sidewalk, but when quarantine happened, we were stuck inside our home. My friend’s mother recommended that we try mountain biking, but we didn’t have actual mountain bikes. My ...

Sixth graders at Father Marquette Catholic Academy in Marquette are shown during a recent reading of the classics. “Reading the classics helps students attain a higher vocabulary, an understanding of earlier ways of life, and leads to incredible discussions about plot development,” school ...