Hoop Houses Extend Growing Season
NMU Hoop House and MQT Food Co-op Partner to Teach Others About Growing Food in the U.P. written by Savannah Mallo Marquette, MI – The sound of blenders filled the Northern Michigan University Jacobetti Building Lobby Tuesday, Nov. 18 during a green smoothie and hoop house workshop. The workshop titled, “What the Kale Do I […]
What the Kale do I do with all these Vegetables?
NMU HOOP HOUSE TO HOST WORKSHOP ON GREEN SMOOTHIE MAKING written by students of the NMU Environmental Campaigns class, PR432 Marquette, Mich – With winter setting in, memories of summertime sunshine and lush green gardens may begin to fade, but students in an Environmental Campaigns class at NMU are keeping those green dreams alive by […]
Early Winter Snowstorm Blankets Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
SNOW, SNOW, AND MORE SNOW! Marquette, MI – It’s been called “Snowmageddon” and with good reason as people across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, woke up to heavy snow blanketing areas up to 16 in. on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, breaking the record of 6 in. on the same day in 1977. 30 inches in all fell […]
NMU Helps Make a Difference
Marquette, MI- Saturday October 25th was national Make a Difference Day. This event started in the 1990s and was created to celebrate neighbors helping neighbors across the United States. Every year Marquette County participates in this event by helping the elderly and disabled do yard work and household cleaning tasks. The NMU volunteer center is […]
Halloween Spectacle Ready to Thrill the City
Marquette, MI- With Halloween just around the corner the city of Marquette is gearing up for the third annual Halloween Spectacle presented by the Marquette Arts and Culture Center. This year’s Spirits of the Lake themed performances will take place on October 25th, 2014 at 7 pm in the Marquette Commons area. This year the celebration is […]
Marquette Harvest Festival
SOMETHING FUN FOR EVERYONE AT ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL! Marquette, MI – Marquette welcomed the fall season with their second annual Harvest Festival on Saturday October 11, 2014. Taking up an entire block of West Baraga Ave., the festival kicked off at three in the afternoon. Plenty of activities and events were scheduled until 8 P.M., […]
NMU Students Display Environmental Art On Campus
Marquette, MI- The students of Northern Michigan University are always creating beautiful and diverse pieces of art to display in the Student Art Gallery located on Northern’s campus in the University Center. The gallery has a constant flow of unique shows with local art made by students. This month’s show titled Environments That Alter […]
Marquette Shows It’s Ready For Change
NMU STUDENTS ORGANIZE LOCAL MARCH AS PART OF WORLDWIDE EVENT Marquette, MI – Residents from Marquette and around the U.P. came together to take local action on a global issue today as part of the larger People’s Climate March movement happening around the world. Despite rain and cold weather families and NMU students showed up Sunday September […]
NMU Homecoming: Not Just for Students
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMECOMING CAN BE FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Marquette, MI- With Northern Michigan University’s Homecoming just around the corner, NMU students are in the final stages of preparing their floats, putting the finishing touches on their choreography for stepping competitions and gearing up for the Dead River Games. Most of the student […]
A Beacon Of Hope
People all over the world can unexpectedly find themselves in need of medical treatments that can not be provided close to home. This forces them to travel to locations that are sometimes very far away from home to receive the treatments they need to cure their illnesses. These patients and their family members are forced to […]
