MARQUETTE — If you’ve been wondering if you’ve seen the last tomatoes from your garden, or notice that your basil has already turned black, you are probably painfully aware of how short the U.P. growing season is. This has been a challenge since Europeans first settled here. Although ...

MARQUETTE — With the school year now underway, here is the story of Sarah Bottrell, a local teacher who lived to the amazing age of 106! Sarah was born Oct. 22, 1904, in Ishpeming, the daughter of proud Cornish immigrant parents Richard Bottrell and Catherine Jones. She had older twin ...

MARQUETTE — In 1933-34, William “Billy” Bushy, a hermit living near Big Bay “set a state isolation record” after spending the winter “holed-in” on his homestead, having gone six months and ten days without seeing another person. A newspaper article documenting the feat does not ...