• Party on the Patio Benefit for UPAWS

    Gwinn, MI – Up North Lodge is excited to announce its collaboration with local businesses to host the “Party on the Patio” every Sunday throughout the summer, with the aim of supporting local nonprofits. Join us at the Up North Lodge on Sunday, June 22, for a special event benefiting the Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS). The festivities kick off at 3 PM, featuring live music from the band “Lost Cause” from 4 PM to 7 PM. Attendees can enjoy an outdoor bar and delicious food, along with exciting basket raffles and a 50/50 drawing. A heartfelt thank you

  • Houghton – From the Ground Farmers Market

    Houghton Waterfront Pier Houghton, Michigan

    From the Ground Farmers Market   Houghton Waterfront Pier   Tuesdays from 3pm – 6pm June 10th to October 7th.

  • NMU Music Department Hosts Summer Concert Series

      The Northern Michigan University Department of Music is launching a new series titled Summer Concerts at Reynolds, which will take place on Tuesdays in June and July in Reynolds Recital Hall. This year’s series will highlight the department’s faculty, all of whom are highly trained professional musicians, in addition to teaching full time. One or more faculty members will be featured during each performance. Admission to all concerts is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted, with all proceeds benefitting the NMU Department of Music to provide the best experience for its students. The schedule for the inaugural season of

  • Houghton – Keweenaw Support 4 Healthy Minds Monthly Meeting

    Portage Lake District Library 4585 W. Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, MI, United States

    Keweenaw Support 4 Healthy Minds monthly meeting: Tuesday,  JUNE 24th,  2025 @ 6:30 pm        Portage Lake District Library Meeting Room Houghton, MI 49931 Keweenaw Support 4 Healthy MInds is a public group, and we welcome anyone interested in our mission:  “to support healthy minds through connection and community.”  Our goals are to talk more openly about mental health to reduce stigma, to build a resilient community by educating the public, and to support those at risk for mental health and substance use crises.  We are on Facebook and our email address is ksup4healthyminds@gmail.com.

  • Marquette County Board of Health Monthly Meeting

    Marquette County Courthouse 234 W. Baraga Avenue, Marquette, Michigan

    The regular monthly meeting of the Marquette County Board of Health will be held on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 6:00 pm.  The meeting will take place in Room 231 of the Henry A. Skewis Annex, Marquette County Courthouse, Marquette..

  • Cloverland Concert on the Steps 

    Cloverland Concert on the Steps Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Front Street Steps.  Family, Adults, Seniors, Teens.  Gather by the steps with chairs and picnics for an evening of folk and bluegrass tunes by popular local band Cloverland, featuring musicians Kerry Yost, Stephanie Whiton, Sarah Mittlefehldt, and John Gillette.  A toe- and heart-tapping concert that is not to be missed!  No admission charge.  Weather Contingency:  Community Room.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

  • Houghton – Soul Shop: Faith-based Suicide Prevention Training

    Trinity Episcopal Church 205 E. Montezuma Avenue, Houghton, MI, United States

    Soul Shop: Faith-based suicide prevention training set for June 26 The following press release was posted on our website on June 2, 2025.   Copper Shores Outreach & Education is hosting Soul Shop with the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan on Thursday, June 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houghton (245 East Montezuma Avenue). Soul Shop is a suicide prevention training program designed for leaders and members of all faith-based communities. Training is free to attend and open to members of all faith-based communities; breakfast and lunch will be provided.   “This training is a great pastoral tool for those in the church

  • Ann Berman Louis Graveraet Kaufman:  The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building Reading 

    Ann Berman Louis Graveraet Kaufman:  The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building Reading Thursday, June 26, 2025.  6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Shiras Room.  Adults, Seniors, Family Friendly.  Michigan historian Ann Berman reads from her biography about the life and legacy of local titan of American banking, Louis Graveraet, a Gatsbyesque figure born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who married into great wealth and then amassed far more of his own. No admission charge.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

  • “Love Letters” at NMU

      Northern Michigan University Theatre & Dance will present “Love Letters” by A.R. Gurney, a past nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play features two characters—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—whose 50-year correspondence chronicles their evolving relationship and shared confidences. It has been described as “a tender, tragi-comic and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends.” Showtimes are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 through Saturday, June 28, in Forest Roberts Theatre. The play stars Amy Dolan-Malaney and Robert Ouellette, both seasoned actors who performed “Love Letters”

  • Soo Locks to host Engineers Day 2025

      SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in conjunction with the City of Sault Ste. Marie, the Sault Ste. Marie Convention & Visitors Bureau, the United States Coast Guard, the Lake Superior State University Center for Freshwater Research and Education, Hospice of the Eastern Upper Peninsula, and Superior Health Systems are hosting open house events for the 2025 Soo Locks Engineers Day on June 27. Visitors are welcome into the Soo Locks facility and across the MacArthur Lock from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Friday, June 27. Engineers Day honors the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’