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Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette County’s job market has not been able to absorb all of the former civilian workers from Sawyer Air Force Base, forcing many to change careers, seek retraining, or move from the area, a Mining Journal study found. Only 28% (62) of the 223 civilian workers who sought state job retraining and referrals have found work locally, said Gwen Wood chief of operations of the Michigan Works. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Northern Michigan University will purchase the Birdseye Veneer CO. property and building west of Marquette County Road 550 and north of ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago ESCANABA – Two legs of the U.P. 200 called off. Race organizers cancelled 112 miles of the 224 U.P. 200 Sled Dog Championship Saturday night for safety reasons. A shortened version of the race, which began in Marquette Friday night, will still end in Marquette today, with the first mushers expected to arrive at 10 a.m. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Temperatures plummeted to the season’s low of 11 below zero in Marquette this morning, as the cold wave entered its third day and was predicted to continue. The previous low of -10 occurred Jan. 27.

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette County will study how much it would cost to pay probate court workers for being on call at night and on the weekends. The in-house review was ordered by the Marquette County Board’s Committee of the Whole Tuesday after four unionized probation officers and two non-union supervisors asked for compensation. 90 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette’s county jail harbored 482 prisoners during 1935, compared to 439 the preceding year, Sheriff Rudolph Franson’s annual account of the department’s activities for the last year shows. Twenty-nine of ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago ISHPEMING – The Marquette County Road Commission will scale back the number of employees working overnight shifts and now collect interest on fees it charges townships for work to balance its 1996 budget. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — A Learning Resource Center scheduled to be under construction at Northern Michigan University this spring will include a library with a capacity for 300,000 volumes. State Senator Joseph S. Mack (D-Ironwood) vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and State Rep. Dominic Jacobetti, D-Negaunee, associate speaker, said ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE – The Upper Peninsula’s unemployment rate edged upward to 8 percent in December, .4 percent above the November rate of 7.6 percent. The December 1994 rate was 6.8 percent. However, the monthly declines were offset by job gains in general merchandise stores and retail trade. After the end of November’s firearm deer season, employment in lumber and wood manufacturing increased. A boost in employment was recorded at area ski hills and other winter tourism places. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Michigan’s first Job Corps Center for Women, a multi- million ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE - The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community will provide the financially strapped Marquette County Road Commission with a much needed financial boost. The gaming compact that all tribes signed with the state of Michigan in 1993, will allow for this. KBIC will give the road commission $50,000 to help offset the cost. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – More than 5,600 Boy Scouts in the Hiawathaland (Upper Peninsula Council) are observing this week as Boy Scout Week. Charles L. Foreman, Marquette council scout executive said the council has 5,686 boy members and over 1,800 ...