EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ESCANABA — Someday, they may call it the “Registration Revolution.” Starting Wednesday, Bay de Noc Community College will allow current students to sign up for ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula’s population changed little during the last century, and preliminary state estimates show that trend will continue through the year 2020. Since the 1930 census, the U.P.’s population has varied only by about 17,000 people. The high was 319,757 ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Marquette police are tapping a time-honored method to ward off warm-weather problems along North Third Street before they get started. For the first time In about 20 years, city police are walking an assigned beat each day. With the onset of unseasonably warm ...

30 years ago SAWYER AIR FORCE BASE — The Michigan Jobs Commission has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Six County Consortium for Employment and Training. The grant will be used to develop a program of adjustment to assist civilian workers at Sawyer Air Force Base who have been or will be laid ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — The late John D. Voelker is being inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wis. Voelker, an Ishpeming native who died in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Stroll through the parking lot of Saturday’s 108th Annual Ishpeming Ski Jumping Tournament and you’d swear you were attending a Carhart clothing ...