The Marquette Regional History Center presents the Special Exhibit: The U.P. Through 250 Artifacts
2026-02-23 00:00 - 2027-01-02 23:59 UTC | Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette, Michigan
February 23, 2026-January 2, 2027
This exhibit showcases two hundred and fifty artifacts, photographs, and documents from our permanent collections. These objects connect local history to the national story while commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has often seemed remote from the rest of the country. However, the themes and movements of U.S. history can be seen here as well, especially since the War of 1812. When the country braced for the Civil War, U.P. iron miners raced to uncover iron for the Union army’s railroads and ammunitions. When labor movements exploded following World War II, Ishpeming’s Gossard garment factory went on strike for better wages. Objects rarely on display include the medal awarded to a local Spanish American War nurse and a hand sewn battle flag brought home by a soldier from the War of 1812. Visit marquettehistory.org or call 906.226.3571 for more info.

Market Season is Here
2026-05-16 00:00 - 2026-11-21 23:59 | Marquette Commons, 112 S. Third St., Marquette, MI, 49855, United States

A Night Under the Big Top
2026-05-18 00:00 - 2026-10-08 23:59 | Kaufman Auditorium, 611 N Front St, Marquette, MI, 49855, United States
Step Right Up for the Greatest Show in Marquette County:
U.P. Hospice Foundation Unveils ‘A Night Under the Big Top’ presented by Dancing with our Stars Marquette County Style!
After ten unforgettable years of dancing, fundraising, and community spirit, the beloved event is evolving! This year’s production transforms the stage into a whimsical, high-energy circus-inspired celebration packed with excitement, creativity, and show-stopping performances- all in support of compassionate Hospice care throughout our community.
Under the glow of the big top, local celebrity groups will team up with talented Marquette dance professionals to deliver unforgettable performances that go far beyond traditional ballroom routines. Expect theatrical storytelling, dazzling costumes, imaginative sets, crowd-pleasing musicality, and performances full of personality, humor, and heart.
“This year is all about creating an experience,” stated Dave Aro, U.P. Hospice Foundation Executive Director. “We wanted to keep the glamour and the excitement people love while introducing something fresh, immersive, and incredibly fun for both the audience and performer. At the heart of it all, though, remains our mission: supporting Hospice care for patients and families in Marquette County.”

The competition will feature three coveted honors:

Big Top Favorite: presented to the team raising the highest amount for Hospice care
Circle Ring Star: selected by live judges based on performance excellence
The Greatest Show: awarded to the team with the ultimate combination of fundraising success and judges’ scores

“A Night Under the Big Top- presented by Dancing with our Stars Marquette County Style” will feature ONE NIGHT ONLY of performances! The event will be held on Thursday, October 8 at Kaufman Auditorium. Doors to the theater will open at 6:00pm with the show beginning at 6:30pm. Join us at the Ore Dock Brewing Company for The Big Top Wrap Party where you can celebrate with the cast and crew of this important fundraiser.
Visit dwos.uphomehealth.org to purchase your tickets online or cast your vote!
Vote for your favorite Celebrity Dance Group! Online runs from Monday, May 18 – Thursday October 8.
Tickets will go on sale on July 15 . Mobile tickets will be provided.

We are delighted to announce this year’s lineup of stars!

Breaking Moves by MyUPNow: Rebecca Bartelme, Brianna MacLean, Air Stassek, Thomas Kinnunen, Jamey Couture
Fresh Coast Beauties: Jessica Mariin, Sharon Matulewicz, Stephanie Perrier, Ashley LeClaire Scheiding , Tara Middleton, Kacie Hanford
GirlyPop: Brooke Grondin, Amelia Bouws, Helana Sharp, Callie Tonella
NextHome Closing Crew: Stephanie Jones, Ben Argall, Candi Kjellin, Jen Hendrickson, Jen Delmont, Melanie Oliver
The Starlettes: Jessica Brooks, Stephanie Beinlich, Adrian Francisco, Jamie Weigold, Miranda Roose, Caitlin Johnson
Team Range Bank – The Loan Rangers: Megan Spratling, Skylar Lancour, Destiny Sherbonda, Marleigh McKinnon, Shelby Oja, Hanna Westra, Sara Garvin
Yoop-Phoria: Carley Herro, Sophia Peterson, Rosie Wagner, Kaitlyn Berandt

Our Creative Director, Ann Marie Frenn, will oversee our equally sensational group of talented dance professionals as they coach, instruct, and choreograph the routine dance for our stars. These dance pros are:

Maureen McFadden
Adina Belanger
Kaylee Birmann
Eden Langlois
Mariel Morton
Milan Marietti
Kylee Taavola

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for this event, please contact Kori Bjorne at 225-4545 or korit@uphomehealth.org for the sponsorship levels.
The U.P. Hospice Foundation supports the “Make-A-Memory” program along with providing supplies, services, equipment, and respite for Hospice families that may be unavailable to them otherwise. Some examples of what the U.P. Hospice Foundation has been able to do for hospice patients and their families include facilitating one person’s dream to see the President of the United States in person and another’s commitment to be the Matron of Honor at her great-granddaughters wedding, through the use of an iPad that transported her virtually to the California beach ceremony. The U.P. Hospice Foundation has also been able to provide technology such as hearing aids, tablet computers for better communication with family and friends, and has helped create family reunions, fishing trips, and building a wheelchair ramp, just to name a few.
Join us for an amazing night of fun and pure entertainment with all proceeds benefiting Hospice care in Marquette County. It’s about how you LIVE! For more information on the U.P. Hospice Foundation, please contact 906-225-4545.
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Since 1973, U.P. Home Health & Hospice has been serving individuals in their home after a surgery, illness, or life-limiting diagnosis. Our focus is on exceptional quality care and we maintain a philosophical approach to care that focuses on empowering people to live life to the fullest. This philosophy is the drive for us to provide home health, hospice, and private duty. These three service lines allow clients to stay in their homes and focus on living well with seamless transitions between services if the need arises.

'North of the 45th' Art Exhibit
2026-06-19 00:00 - 2026-09-04 23:59 | DeVos Art Museum, 401 Presque Isle Ave, Marquette, MI, 49855, United States
June 19 through Sept. 4.
DeVos Art Museum
Northern Michigan University’s DeVos Art Museum will host “North of the 45th,” an annual juried exhibition featuring artists living in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota locations north of the 45th parallel, which is known as the halfway point between the equator and north pole. The show opens June 19 and will be on display through Sept. 4.
The 2026 jurors are: Shane McAdams, an artist, writer, curator and educator from Cedarburg, Wis.; and Shane Walsh, a painter and teacher who splits his time between studios in Milwaukee and New York City. Both are educators at UW-Milwaukee, co-founders of the Door County Contemporary Art Fair and have shown artwork in solo and group shows at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.
Artists featured in the North of the 45th exhibition include seven from Marquette: Ezra Asohan; David Berg; Michael Friend; AJ Jensen; Tamara Kartheiser; Russell Prather; and Cameron Wilcox. There are also four from Minneapolis: Abigail Ahlberg; Rachel Collier; Melissa Cooke Benson; and Amanda Hamilton.
Remaining artists featured are: Joe Arts, Wisconsin Rapids; Kurt Babcock, Gwinn; Zachary Betts, Roseville, Minn.; Mary Brodbeck, Calumet Township; Ginnie Cappaert, Egg Harbor, Wis.; Cynthia Cote, Calumet; Nicolas Darcourt, Minnetonka, Minn.; Joy DeNicola. Iron River, Mich.; Larry Godfrey, Gladstone; Lindsy Halleckson, Robbinsdale, Minn.; Camille Hamilton, Alden, Mich.; Rachel Hausmann-Schall. Mosinee, Wis.; John Hubbard, Gwinn; Cheyenne La March, Gladstone; Toni Mendina, Iron Mountain; and Christian Rieben, Kewaunee, Wis.
The museum is open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free.

Tickets Are On Sale for 17th Annual U.P. Fall Beer Festival
2026-06-25 00:00 - 2026-09-12 23:59 | Lower Harbor Park, Marquette, Michigan
Coming up Saturday, September 12 in Marquette, Michigan

Tickets went on sale Thursday, June 25 at 10am (at MiBeer.com) for the 17th Annual U.P. Fall Beer Festival hosted by the Michigan Brewers Guild on Saturday, September 12 along the Lake Superior shoreline in Marquette’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park.

General Admission is 1-6pm, with the gates opening at Noon for Enthusiast Members. Tickets are $55 per person in advance ($65 the day of). Those wanting a VIP experience can purchase tickets which allow for an extra hour of beer sampling-those tickets are $75 in advance or $85 the day of. Admission is for those 21+ with valid I.D. and are held rain or shine.

Formed in 1997, the Michigan Brewers Guild is the non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting the local beer industry. With close to 300 member breweries, the Michigan Brewers Guild is a network of innovative and passionate brewers that serves as the recognized advocate for the Michigan craft beer industry. The Guild hosted its first festival in July 1998 and today hosts four festivals that are produced for the industry, by the industry.

Michigan’s thriving brewing industry contributes more than 11,000 full-time jobs to the state with a total economic impact of over $1.6 billion. In terms of overall number of breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs, Michigan ranks #8 in the nation-supporting its title as “The Great Beer State.”

Beaumier Center Highlights Mary Jayne Hallifax's Photography
2026-07-09 00:00 - 2026-10-03 23:59 | NMU Beaumier Heritage Center, 1401 Presque Avenue, Gries Hall,, Marquette, MI, 49855, United States
exhibition opens July 9 and will be on display through Oct. 3
The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center
The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at NMU will open a new exhibition July 9 that features the work of one of the U.P.’s most prolific photographers. It is titled “Munising in Black & White: The Photographs of Mary Jayne Hallifax.” She was an in-demand commercial photographer who also captured numerous candid images of her hometown over seven decades.
Hallifax died in 2025 at the age of 96 and donated many of her original negatives to photograph collector Jack Deo, who is loaning 60 images to the Beaumier Center for the exhibit. They represent a tiny fragment of her catalog and focus specifically on the 1950s and 1960s, depicting community events, street scenes, school activities and the lives of people in the community.
A lifelong Munising resident, Mary Jayne (Shampine) Hallifax was a 1946 graduate of W.G. Mather High School. While working on the school’s yearbook, she was asked by the school secretary to take, help develop and print photographs, and from that her lifelong love with photography began.
After she graduated and started working, Mary Jayne spent her nights taking photos and developing them. It became such a passion that she gave up her job at People’s State Bank to pursue photography full time. She soon became Munising’s most in demand commercial photographer, especially for weddings and senior photos. However, she also loved just wandering the streets of Munising taking candid photos of people and the general “goings-on” in the community. She even took photos for the Michigan State Police crime lab.
In 1948, Mary Jayne married Richard Hallifax, and the pair worked on photography together. He did much of the film developing and press work, while she focused on making prints, and her portraiture studio work with families, wedding parties and graduating students. During her career with newspaper work and even into retirement, she photographed seven Michigan governors on their trips to Munising: G. Mennen “Soapy” Williams, John Swainson, George Romney, William Milliken, James Blanchard, John Engler and Rick Snyder.
Up until her 95th birthday, she had a weekly column “All About Town with Mary Jayne” or “Down Memory Lane in Alger County” for the Marquette Mining Journal and years earlier for the Munising News.
The exhibition will be on display through Oct. 3 at the Beaumier Center’s gallery in 223 Harden Hall at NMU. The center’s summer hours are noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. It is free and open to the public.

Copper Country Angel Mission Starts Annual Socks & Undies Drive for Local Students
2026-07-14 00:00 - 2026-08-31 23:59 | Michigan
Copper Country Angel Mission Starts Annual Socks & Undies Drive for Local Students

Help Local Students Start the School Year with Confidence

Copper Country Angel Mission is launching its annual Socks & Undies Drive to collect new socks and underwear for local children in need, from toddlers through teenagers. The goal is to help every school-aged child begin the year with dignity, comfort, and the confidence that comes from having brand-new essentials.

Distribution
The Angel Mission is again partnering with The Salvation Army – Copper Country – Bread of Life Center to distribute these essentials through CCAM’s Backpack and TSA’s Stuff the Bus programs in August.

Collection Box Locations
 CCAM Store
 The Salvation Army, Hancock
 Dollar General, Allouez
 Incredible Bank, Calumet and Houghton
 Auto-Pro Glass & Tire, Houghton
 Houghton Walmart entrances
 Faith Lutheran Church, Laurium
 Bethany Lutheran Church, Mohawk
 Shepherd of the Sea, Copper Harbor

Monetary Donations
Monetary donations may be mailed to CCAM, 433 5th St., Calumet, MI 49913. Please note “socks/undies” with your donation.

Donation cans are also available at the following locations:
 Keweenaw: Mohawk Superette; Allouez Amoco
 Calumet: Calumet BP; Toni’s Country Kitchen; Burger King; Circle K
 Hancock: Circle K
 Houghton: Auto-Pro Glass & Tire; Mobile, Sharon Avenue; Amoco, Montezuma

Together, we can help local kids begin the school year prepared, comfortable, and confident.

Marquette Area Sister Cities Partnership to Host Delegation from Higashiomi Japan
2026-07-19 00:00 - 2026-09-29 23:59 | Michigan
The Marquette Area Sister Cities Partnership is proud to announce the 2026 incoming delegation from our sister city Higashiomi, Japan, celebrating our 47th year of sister city relations. A delegation of seven Higashiomi citizens will arrive in Marquette on July 19 and depart on July 29, 2026,
Our seven delegates are the Deputy Mayor, a Higashiomi City Council member, Higashiomi City Staff, members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Higashiomi International Exchange Association, and Higashiomi citizens. The Marquette Area Sister Cities Partnership Committee is proud to host the events for the Sister City delegation. The Japanese delegation is led by Higashiomi Deputy Mayor Namikawa. Host families are needed to host our seven delegates. Delegates will be in the Marquette Area for 11 days and 10 nights.
Delegation visits include two host family days and seven community days provided by the Marquette Area Sister Cities Partnership.
For an application form or for more information, visit http://www.mqtsistercity.org/, contact the Marquette Area Sister Cities Partnership at contact@mqtsistercity.org, or contact Board Members Bill Brazier at (906) 869-4859 or Collin Banger at (616) 368-2624.
