Acid Mine Drainage by savethewildup In Is Michigan’s BP Disaster Brewing in the UP? addressing the Kennecott Eagle Mine north of Marquette, the Center for Michigan’s Phil Power writes: Today, TV screens, newspapers and the Internet are consumed worldwide with the horrendous British Petroleum oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, now believed to be [...]
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September 9, 2009 – 12:23 pm
BREAK OUT YOUR LEDERHOSEN More than 150 beers from some of Michigan’s finest microbreweries and brewpubs. Live music. Food available for purchase. Rain or shine. The first-ever Michigan Brewers Guild U.P. Oktoberfest is coming September 12 . . . and it’s crossing the Big Mac bridge to do so! The excitement is taking over the [...]
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February 16, 2009 – 3:28 pm
Dog sled races, UP200, 2007 by e.rabior Eric says that this photo shows a team arriving in Grand Marais, halfway point of the 240 mile race, amidst unrelenting lake effect snow. This year is the 20th running of the U.P. 200 and Midnight Run sled dog races and Over 15,000 visitors come to Michigan’s Upper [...]
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October 15, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Lakenenland Corporate Greed by Kristina_5 Found on the Absolute Michigan flickr pool, Kristina_5 has some interesting shots from an equally interesting sculpture park located 15 miles east of Marquette, Michigan on M-28. She writes: This sculpture park was created by Tom LaKenen (pron. Lay-Kin-en) several years ago. He started creating these pieces as a hobby. [...]
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Together. by Rick Spillers Eric Hansen is the author of “Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” and “Hiking Wisconsin”. In this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he has an editorial titled Headwaters are no place for toxic new mining that begins: Take a moment to think about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the nearby patches of Wisconsin, Lake Superior [...]
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Fun on Pleasant Lake by MWOOD19 Welcome to The Week on Absolute Michigan. Summer is in full swing around the state and candidates in Michigan primaries are trying to chicken dinner their way to an August 6th victory. Our July Michigan Event Calendar says that events folks can check out this weekend include the Michigan [...]
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For more on this issue visit Save the Wild UP and also check out Anatomy of a mine: Lansing hearings put U.P. wilderness on trial from the Lansing City Pulse: The hearings hit hard rock Wednesday, April 30, when a white-haired man in suspenders slowly made his way to the stand, leaning on a cane. [...]
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March 12, 2008 – 11:57 am
Welcome to a special March Madness edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Last weekend featured championships in girls basketball, boys swimming and diving, competitive cheer, gymnastics, wrestling and hockey and you can get all the details from the Freep, Detroit News and mLive. Michigan Girls Basketball State Championships Last weekend the [...]
January 15, 2008 – 9:56 am
There must be more bookstores in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but these are the only ones we could find with web pages. If you know of any UP Michigan bookstores that we missed, let us know in the comments! Share this:
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