Marquette, MI – May 6, 2026 – Voters went to the polls yesterday in several U.P. communities to decide the fates of various bond and millage proposals.
In Marquette County, residents in the Marquette Area Public School district passed a bond proposal to generate just under $60 million for the district to make facility infrastructure updates. The vote was 3,628 YES to 3,116 NO.
Voters in Negaunee will also approved $1.25 million bond proposal to cover needed repairs and upgrades to the Negaunee Ice Arena. The vote there was 747 YES to 309 NO.
Voters in Munising passed a sinking fund millage request of 1.5 mills over 5 years by the Munising Public Schools to create a fund for construction. The final vote was 791 YES to 680 NO.
Elsewhere, voters in Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw Counties passed a .97 mil renewal request by the Copper Country Intermediate School District for Clerical and Technical Education programs. That final tally was 5,372 YES to 1,406 NO.
And a 3 mil request by the Baraga Schools to fund construction and school security efforts was approved by a vote of 240 YES to 206 NO.
-mediaBrew Communications News
