Marenisco News

COUNTY: Gogebic HIGHWAY: M-64 CLOSEST CITY: Marenisco ESTIMATED STARTING DATE: Monday, July 7 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: Sunday, August 31 PROJECT: The Michigan Department of Transportation will be resurfacing ...

Cory Peterman and Isaac Underwood led the Marquette American Legion Blues to a 13-3 win over visiting Marenisco Sunday in the second game of a baseball doubleheader at Haley Memorial Field. via The Mining Journal

Two inmates have been acquitted of the most serious charges against them after a disturbance at an Upper Peninsula prison camp two years ago. via WWUP-TV Cadillac

Two inmates have been found not guilty of the most serious charges related to a prison riot at Camp Ojibway in Marenisco two years ago. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

“He just told everyone to go to their rooms”

The defense had its chance today to tell their side of the story in the prison riot trial in Gogebic County. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

WHAT: Staff from the Michigan Department of Transportation Crystal Falls Transportation Service Center will present an overview of construction, maintenance, and transportation enhancement projects planned for ... via State of Michigan

“He had bruising by his right eye and he had a centimeter laceration to the posterior of his neck.”

Now only 2 inmates are standing trial for their role in the riot at the Ojibway Correctional Facility in Marenisco in April 2006. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

Robert F. Wanek, 83, of Marenisco, Mich., died Saturday, April 5, 2008, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iron Mountain. via The Daily News

“The idea of Get W.I.S.E. is to get young women excited about fields they're not typically going into”

Using a familiar dining tool as her measuring device, Cora Stockton spooned liquid Vaseline into a small lip gloss pot. via The Daily Mining Gazette

“I came to the Upper Peninsula from southern California about 15 years ago”

When the Powderhorn Village home of James and Tammy Vilgos and daughter Danielle Brady burned to the ground Wednesday night, they lost almost everything. via Daily Globe

Ewen-Trout Creek picked up three of the four major Porcupine Mountain Conference All-Conference awards released Friday. via The Daily Mining Gazette

“They need everything. They'll have to start from the ground on up”

A relief fund has been set up for an Ironwood Township couple who lost their home and belongings in a Wednesday night fire. via Daily Globe

A search warrant executed on a Marenisco Township home this past weekend resulted in two drug-related arrests. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

Although the temperature didn't break 100 in the Upper Peninsula in 2007, it was the 30th warmest year on record in Ironwood since 1901. via Daily Globe

An Ironwood woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana into the Ojibway Prison in Marenisco. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

“I think people heard the message that you can't consolidate the school districts without involving the school districts.”

Southwest Shiawassee County voters Tuesday overwhelmingly turned back a proposal to merge the Perry and Morrice school districts. via Lansing State Journal

“The potential exists that the total refund could go as high as $1 million or more”

Michigan townships that stipulated with Enbridge Energy after a June agreement between the pipeline owner and Wakeshma Township will not be held to those stipulations. via Daily Globe

“There would be no more Orioles, no more orange and black, and the same for Perry as well”

PERRY - A proposal to consolidate two Shiawassee County school districts has become a heated war of words that threatens to tear apart the two communities. via Lansing State Journal

“I just thought it was a good idea”

Dozens of teenage donors helped set a record for the Red Cross blood drive Wednesday at the Ironwood Memorial Building. via Daily Globe