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See Photos of the Marquette Fireworks Show! Marquette, MI – July 4, 2021 – After a long year of waiting for the fun Independence Day festivities, the parade and fireworks are finally back in full swing this year! The parade was full of great floats and the streets were lined with crowds of people watching and kids grabbing for candy.  After the parade Food Fest began in full force with tons of different food vendors from far and wide, all together at Mattson Lower Harbor.  There was live music all day, including our very own Walt Lindala with his band The Flat Broke Blues Band!

MARQUETTE, MI-- Independence Day activities are returning to Marquette’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park this year. The Marquette Area Fourth of July Committee

68-acre fire in Marquette County is 75% contained, DNR says MARQUETTE COUNTY – A crew of 10 Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters is continuing to construct a containment line around a fire that ignited Tuesday afternoon in a remote area of Marquette County, near the south end of Goose Lake in Richmond Township. The fire is 75% contained. Crews are working in rocky areas that are inaccessible to large equipment. The area burning is situated south of Marquette County Road 480 and north of County Road NC, which leads to the DNR’s boating access site on Goose Lake. “We don�...

Newport Beach Council to Consider Disposal of ‘Legacy Materials’ in Harbor NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Newport Beach’s harbor commission has passed a resolution headed to city council recommending a small amount of dredging waste be buried in the harbor in a contained facility. The waste, which is unsuitable for dumping in the ocean, is currently being excavated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The proposed confined aquatic dredged material disposal site (CAD) would be located in the central portion of the Lower Harbor adjacent to Bay Island, Lido Island and Harbor Island. The city staf...

A horned grebe is shown. (Scot Stewart photo) “Nothing like the petals of a spring beauty or a marsh marigold to take the sting out of a late snow.” — Anonymous   It has been a roller coaster of a spring and it seems like that is becoming winter’s in the Upper Peninsula. Luckily there has been enough warmth and sunshine to provide encouragement to the spring ephemerals like spring beauties and trailing arbutus, and the yellow marsh marigolds are just begging to open their flower buds in the wetlands in Marquette.  It is also fortunate many songbirds have taken a slow path back nor...