Port Huron to purchase two 40-niche columbaria for Lakeside Cemetery
By Jim Bloch The city of Port Huron will buy two 40-niche columbaria for the Allied Veteran’s Cemetery inside the footprint of Lakeside Cemetery. At...
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The Beatles invade Port Huron!
By Jim Bloch One day before Paul McCartney’s 81st birthday, a Beatles tribute band invaded Port Huron. Under the leadership of poet and Wayne State...
Port Huron to spend $445K on equipment for new fire hall and new radios
By Jim Bloch The city of Port Huron will spend $444,710 to purchase an emergency alerting system for Fire Station #1, now under construction, diesel...
Wisconsin judge gives Enbridge three years to decommission Line 5 through Bad River reservation
By Jim Bloch A federal judge in Wisconsin has given the giant oil transportation company Enbridge three years to decommission the portion of Line 5...
Port Huron to spend $1.9 million to rehab two sanitary sewer pump stations
By Jim Bloch Port Huron will spend $1,866,526 to rehabilitate two pump stations in the city’s wastewater treatment system. The city council voted unanimously at...
Ellington’s score for ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ called ‘thematically bracing,’ compellingly listenable,’ Part Five
By Jim Bloch The tale of jazz great Duke Ellington, conductor and composer of America’s most urbane musical form, playing and writing in the frozen...
Visit U.P. scenes in 1959’s ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ that featured Duke Ellington, Part Four
By Jim Bloch In the 1950s, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra were accustomed to playing multi-night engagements at top-flight venues in Chicago — the Opera...
Plenty of locations used in the film “Anatomy of a Murder” may be visited in the U.P., Part Three
By Jim Bloch If you find yourself touring around Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in search of something to do other than enjoying the spectacular coastline and...
Visit the sets of “Anatomy of a Murder” in the Upper Peninsula, Part Two
By Jim Bloch It’s easy to buy a copy of Robert Traver’s 1958 novel “Anatomy of a Murder” in bookstores across the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,...
Locations of 1959 film ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ still a draw in the U.P., Part One
By Jim Bloch Imagine that Tom Hanks, the great everyman of contemporary cinema, is starring in a Hollywood movie being filmed in and around Port...