MARQUETTE, MI - James Lee Carter, 87, walked on to eternal life on Friday, April 14, 2023. He was born October 17th, 1935 in Marquette, the son of Forest and
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NEGAUNEE Gary Peterson’s an electrician, but that didn’t stop him from joining the fifty O.K. Auto, Inc. employees who have been protesting the lack of a labor contract since October. Karen DeRoche and Julie Dunstan, whose husbands are miners and were on strike against Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. for four months last fall, also showed for an early morning rally in Negaunee and the mass picketing that followed. In all, about 65 labor unionists gathered at E.H. Ronn Union Hall in Negaunee, then picked up picket signs to carry to the rally. The Saturday pickets and the rally urged shoppers to boycott the O.K. Auto stores in Ishpeming and Marquette. “In the case of O.K. Auto, we need to take the strength we have in the union, and help to get good contracts,” said Dave Foster, District 33 representative for the U
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MUNISING Officials at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore are hoping to find a long-lost Ojibwa burial ground at Sand Point. The Ojibwa camped in the area, four miles north east of downtown Munising, for hundreds of years, and used at least one traditional burial site. But apparently, no one knows where it is now. The only known clue is an 1886 photograph owned by Marquette County Historical Society showing spirit houses and a cross marker under a distinctive white pine. But no such tree has so far been located by park officials. “It might not even be on Sand Point anymore,” Interpretive Specialist Gregg Buff noted. The peninsula shifts and reforms with the currents: What is land today may be water tomorrow. So it is possible that the site may now be in Lake Superior. “We’re trying to see if anyone has rec