Central Region

New Peninsula Bank headquarters being built

It won’t be long before the customers of Peninsula Bank in Marquette won’t be traveling to Front Street to do their business with the financial institution. The company, which celebrates […]

Spicy Jo’s opens in Ishpeming
Unusual U.P. photo blog gets nod in the Detroit Free Press

Source: The Detroit Free Press

Yooper Bars book featured in Chicago Tribune

Source: Chicago Tribune

NMU’s Singh to research in India under Fulbright Award
A week to tinker and tweak

Sometimes you just have to take a week to collect yourself, and that's exactly what Upper Peninsula Second Wave is doing next week. There is a bunch of behind-the-scenes tinkering that we've been meaning to do and we're hoping that when we come back and publish August 22 that you'll be here to join us for some great local news and features.

To comment or not to comment? Online debates can end badly.

We've all done it: posted that ill-advised comment on some issue we shouldn't have gotten involved in, whether it's on Facebook or a news story. Columnist Deb Pascoe considers the right and wrong times to voice your opinion online.

A canvas of flesh: Artists bring passion, skill to Northern Michigan tattoo shops

Getting inked is serious business, that's why it's always advisable to seek out the best tattoo artists in the business--emphasis on artist. And you really don't have to go that far to find a true artist in the ranks of the tattooists out there, even in Northern Michigan.

Pink Sugar opens in Escanaba
Tattoo shop opens in Marquette

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