🌱 How today’s state-backed visit could boost Ishpeming’s smallest businesses
Ishpeming, Michigan Patch AM: a 3 min readCoffee in hand, Ishpeming? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How today’s state-backed visit could boost Ishpeming’s smallest businesses
- How Ishpeming-made courts will end up under NBA superstars
Also on today's calendar: Marquette Holistic Health Fair – May 2026 and 1 more event.
Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 61 and low of 40 degrees.
- Thursday: Increasing cloudiness, temps: high: 62, low: 47.
- Friday: A shower and t-storm; cooler, with a high of 56 and low of 37 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Michigan Municipal League expands Local Economies
initiative to Upper Peninsula (miningjournal.net) — Ishpeming is getting special attention today as Michigan Municipal League staff visit the city to support local microbusinesses and entrepreneurs. Their stop is part of a weeklong Upper Peninsula tour focused on strengthening small-business resources, networking, and access to capital in communities like Ishpeming, Forsyth Township, Gladstone, Manistique, and Marquette. 
• Connor Sports expands to WNBA courts (uppermichiganssource.com) — Ishpeming’s Robbins Flooring is highlighted for making all future NBA courts, putting local manufacturing on a national stage alongside Connor Sports in Amasa, which supplies NCAA and WNBA courts. Together, these Upper Peninsula companies are turning UP hardwood into a major sports-industry asset and local point of pride.
📸 Around Ishpeming
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Get Ready To Garden Workshop 3 | Prep Your Planting Space — Partridge Creek Farm
Ishpeming Carnegie Library, 317 N Main St, Ishpeming
5:30 pm
Thursday May 14
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Other local events
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Adams Family Musical
High School Auditorium
7:00 pm -
Marquette Holistic Health Fair – May 2026
Northern Center , Northern Ctr , 1401 Presque Isle Ave , Marquette
10:00 am -
Join the 2026 Central UP Farm-to-School Institute — Partridge Creek Farm
The Mather , 107 E Canda St , Ishpeming
9:00 am
Thursday April 23
Saturday May 16
Tuesday May 19
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Swimming Suffragettes
Marquette Regional History Center , 145 W Spring St , Marquette
5:30 pm -
Swimming Suffragettes: The Evolution and Revolution in Women's Bathing Suits
Marquette Regional History Center , 145 W Spring St , Marquette
5:30 pm -
Adams Family Musical
High School Auditorium
7:00 pm -
Classic and Inspired French Cooking
Marquette Food Co-op , 502 W Washington St , Marquette
5:30 pm -
Gladstone JV Baseball @ Negaunee
Negaunee High School , 500 W Arch St , Negaunee
4:00 pm -
Get Ready to Garden Workshop 4 | Transplanting — Partridge Creek Farm
Ishpeming Carnegie Library , 317 N Main St , Ishpeming
5:30 pm -
Workshop | Transplanting
Ishpeming Carnegie Library , 317 N Main St , Ishpeming
5:30 pm -
Iron Range Roll 2026
501 W Euclid St , Ishpeming
5:00 pm
Wednesday April 22
Thursday April 23
Tuesday May 5
Friday May 8
Thursday June 4
Saturday June 6
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🗞 Nearby News
Marquette
- 906 Adventure Team aims to educate kids with outdoors (uppermichiganssource.com)
- Tax season concludes in the Upper Peninsula, more than $400k returned to Yoopers (uppermichiganssource.com)
- Trenton Massey memorial held (mininggazette.com)
Gwinn
- Rivers run high, but dry warmup lowers Upper Peninsula flood threat (mlive.com)
Ok Ishpeming! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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