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30 years ago MARQUETTE – K.L. Cool rock-and-rolled into the Upper Peninsula Tuesday and brought with him a new old friend. Sporting a Snoopy tie, a duck hunting pin and a boom box used for an earlier employee presentation, the new director of the Department of Natural Resources said his first goal is to “stabilize leadership” within the DNR. He then announced he had enticed retired DNR Deputy Director Frank Opolka to return to the post to help guide the DNR’s U.P. policy as the agency moves into the next century. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Members of Michigan Tech’s Sigma ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – The group of lawyers and associates raising funds for a $2,500 painting of retired Marquette County Circuit Judge Raymond Jason has reached its goal. Attorney Mark Stevens of Marquette said the money for the oil-on-canvas portrait was raised in little more than a week with the help of a $500 donation from Marquette County Courthouse employees. The portrait will be painted by Marquette artist Paul grant. It will hang in the county circuit courtroom with portraits of 10 other former Circuit judges. Stevens praised attorney Harley Andrews and county probation ...

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30 years ago ISHPEMING – Dan Mouch hasn’t bowled very often—or well—at Country Lanes in Ishpeming. That all changed Wednesday night when the 23-year-old Marquette resident rolled his first career 300 game in the Country Classic League. Burying his first 12 balls of the night in the strike pocket, Mouch added games of 147 and 257 for a 704 series. The 300 was the sixth bowled at Country Lanes and ninth bowled in Marquette County this season. Mouch is a regular in leagues at Eastwood Lanes and Windmill Lanes in Marquette, where he carries and average of around 190. Last season, he ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette’s Northern Lites women’s hockey team, which plays its home games at Northern Michigan University’s PEIF ice arena, has been gaining experience and community support since its inception back in the late 1970’s. The 20 women on the team have built a reputation for the Lites as one of the formidable women’s squads in the Midwest. “In 1977 or 78’ they were playing intramural (hockey) here at Northern, and that’s when a lot of these players started,” said Kelly December, who has played defense for the Lites the past 10 years. It ...

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30 years ago NEGAUNEE – The 32nd Annual Negaunee Invitational Basketball Tournament got underway Friday night at Negaunee’s Memorial Gymnasium. North Country Engineering of Negaunee must have drawn a good game plan as it defeated the Westwood Rejects of Ishpeming, 71-60, in Class EE. North Country’s Steve Heliin led his team with 13 points, while teammates Pete Borlace and Jeff Poutanen pitched in 12 apiece. Dan Etelamaki pumped in game-high 19 points for the Rejects. Dean Schultz added 12. In Class DD action, Twin City Dodge of Negaunee drove past Gwinn Crossroads Mini-Mart, ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – A downstate television station owner has applied for a permit to build a new station in Marquette. Thomas Scanlan of Traverse City, who currently owns WGTU/WGTQ channels 29 and 8 in Traverse City and Sault Ste. Marie, wants to broadcast on Channel 19 in Marquette. The Federal Communications Commission set aside Channel 19 for Marquette in the late 1980s and awarded a construction permit to a Green Bay, Wis. Television executive. No action was taken on the permit, however, it expired several years ago. “We are very serious about development here,” said ...