30 years ago ISHPEMING – Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. will close its century-old maintenance shops in Ishpeming on Dec. 31, after the company and the United Steelworkers of America failed to reach accord on a sale to a third party. A total of 65 employees, 55 hourly and ten salaried, will be ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Three Upper Peninsula school systems and two other intermediate school districts will participate over the next 18 months in a program offered by Ameritech to provide enhanced access to the Internet. Ameritech will provide reduced Internet-access rates and fund a ...

30 years ago NEGAUNEE – Project Newborn has been chosen as one of “Michigan’s Best!” by the Michigan Association of School Boards. The program, a collaborative effort of the Ishpeming, Negaunee, NICE, Republic-Michigamme, Powell Township and Marquette school districts, was chosen as ...

30 years ago HANCOCK – Five residents could face disorderly conduct charges after stripping and dancing to accordion music in the early morning hours at a laundromat. Hancock police were called to the Washtub Laundromat just after 3 a.m. Saturday to investigate a call claiming a nude man ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Thousands of union members marched in Marquette Monday to celebrate the last long holiday weekend of the summer and to demonstrate that Marquette County remains in large measure blue collar and staunchly pro-labor. The marchers represented about 42 union locals, ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Carriers on the Great Lakes moved 13.3 million tons of cargo in July, up 2.8 percent over the same period one year ago, according to the Lake Carriers Association. Iron ore shipments on U.S. vessels totaled 6.3 million tons, up slightly from July 1994. However, total ...