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 ...

30 years ago NEGAUNEE — Susan Rasch had always heard people talk about how great it would be to have a winter festival in western Marquette County. “So I just said, ‘Let’s quit talking about it. Let’s just do it,’” recalled Rasch, owner of the Duck Factory in Negaunee. The ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Although Lake Superior iron ore shipping declined this season, production was up in Marquette County mines, officials said. The Superior shipping season ends at midnight today when the Sault Ste. Marie locks officially close for the winter. This season some 6.8 ...