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EDITOR'S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.
30 years ago
HARVEY -- Harvey Mini-Mart posted a 14-2 season record en route to the Ishpeming Major Little League championship this season. Team members are: bat boy Jim Laakso Jr., Fran Sevegney, Mike Nelson, Josh Kitto, Danny Mason, Kurt Turri, Mike Belpedio, Kevin Barry, Tony Belpedio, Geoff Kruger, Dan Larson, David Joseph, Dave Paananen, Jeff Peterson, Jared Koski and Bryan Bertucci. The manager is Jim Laakso and "Bugs" Bergman is the team's coach.
90 years ago
ISHPEMING -- The Great Northern Carnival Co., Ishpeming's own outdoor attraction sponsored by an enterprising group of local youngsters, will play its 1927 engagement -- its third annual showing -- next week on a vacant lot near the corner of Empire and Third streets. The personnel of the company is somewhat different than last season, and the managerial staff comprises seven well-known Ishpeming boys: Harold St. John, Avery Peterson, Melvin Berg, William Thomas, Lowell Hebbard, Lawrence Hebbard and Sheldon Hebbard.