30 years ago Ishpeming – A busted water main flooded Ishpeming on Saturday. Mother Nature’s frigid grip ruptured a 12 inch water main spreading 250,000 gallons over four downtown blocks. Public works crews in Ishpeming were expected to work until the early morning to repair the water main ...

30 years REPUBLIC — The idled Republic Mine, once the mighty lifeblood of this small west Marquette County town, is being permanently closed, the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company announced this morning. Idle for 15 years, activities necessary for closing the mine have begun. After suspending ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE— In an effort to aid economic expansion in the Upper Peninsula, CellularOne is offering free phones and services to new businesses. Cellular phones, including a year of unlimited airtime and access, will be offered to new firms as part of a nationwide plan to help ...

30 years ago ISHPEMING — The city of Ishpeming and two local hospitals are cooperating on a paramedic training program aimed at saving more West End Lives. The 14-month paramedic training program for 21 local emergency medical technicians and EMT specialists is expected to begin in ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — A semi-tractor trailer filled with leachate from the Marquette County Landfill turned on its side near the Carp River early Saturday afternoon, spilling foul smelling but nontoxic liquid onto the roadway’s shoulder and ditch. Driver George LaFave of Marquette said ...

30 years ago ISHPEMING — The NICE board, meeting in special session Tuesday, asked for more, options as to exactly where to situate the new kindergarten through eighth grade school building on a 40-arce district-owned tract near the existing Westwood High School. Bob Paullin, the project ...