30 years ago MARQUETTE - Bruce Pesola, local contractor, is looking to bring new life to the former Heritage House Hotel on North Front street. Now bustling with light and sound from renovators, the building is seeing its first visitors since its abandonment in 1982. If all goes well, this ...

30 years ago ISHPEMING - Two things have been saved by the longtime members of the Bethany Lutheran Church: a 110-year-old organ, and about $75,000. Church members have recently uncovered most of the original 1,015 pipes from the 1885 Schuelke Pipe Organ in the attic of the Church’s ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE - Couples have many unique strategies for tackling boredom: going to the movies, getting together with friends, or maybe having a game night. Gary and Joannie McGuffin, on the other hand, go on natural adventures. For their fifteen years of marriage, they have been ...

30 years ago MUNISING - On Thanksgiving Day, a one hour radio program will be broadcast out of Chicago on the history of the Munising area as described in Loren Graham’s new book: “A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa.” Recalled by a New York Times book reviewer to be ...

30 years ago HOUGHTON - A Governor’s Honor Roll Award was given to Laurie Hazzard last week for her work with the Copper Country Community Transition Council, a group dedicated to making trips from school to work more accommodating for students with learning disabilities. For six years, ...

30 years ago MUNISING - Grant Peterson, superintendent of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, is well aware of the risks of promoting the U.P. for tourists, but, he says, “It is important to balance attracting visitors to historic, cultural, and natural resources with preservation in ...