Brenda Belisle Weiss (née, Brenda Joyce Belisle) On September 22, 2022, Brenda Belisle Weiss (née, Brenda Joyce Belisle) gained her wings and went to walk with the angels after a
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NATIONAL MINE Tilden Township is the latest Marquette municipality to hire the Marquette Country Sheriff Department to patrol its streets. The township paid the department $12,326 under a six-month contract for police services, said Supervisor Eugene Ostola. The new deputy will work half-time at a rate of $23.83 per hour. Both sides will review the arrangement after six months, he said. “We’ve had quite a lot of vandalism, things like mailboxes, playground equipment in the past couple of years,” Ostola said. “This way, we can get police protection and we don’t have to go through the trouble and expense of putting together a whole new department.” The program was initiated about a month ago by Marquette County when it signed a contract for a full-time deputy for a year. The program makes it easier for townships to add po