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Feb 19, 2021 Marquette County Sheriff Greg Zyburt is shown accepting a donation of $30,000 from Michael Neiger, president of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR). This donation will be used for the purchase of a Matrice 300 RTK Drone. This drone will literally expand the horizon in helping Marquette County Search and Rescue during fire, flooding, search and rescue and recovery. The drone will be named ART to honor Michael’s father Art Neiger who was a 40-year veteran of the Coast Guard Auxiliary in Marquette. He was also a Boy Scout Leader, a professor and advisor at Northern Mic...

Michael Neiger (l) presenting a check to Sheriff Greg Zyburt Credit Marquette County Sheriff's Office The donation came from Michael Neiger, president of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue. The drone will help Marquette County Search and Rescue during fire, flooding, search and rescue, and recovery. It will be named ART in honor of Michael’s father Art Neiger, a 40-year veteran of Marquette’s Coast Guard Auxiliary. Art was a Boy Scout leader and a professor and advisor at Northern Michigan University. He also helped to set up NMU’s police academy. ART also happens to be an acronym f...