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EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Seventeen year old Tori Sodergren of Ishpeming will be joining the National Guard, being the first female in the 800-member 107th Engineer (combat) Battalion. She was sworn into the Michigan Army National Guard as a private on Thursday at the Ishpeming Armory. Encouraged by her uncle, 1st Sgt. Gary LaFreniere to join the battalion, Sodergren will undergo basic training at Fort Jackson, followed by seven weeks of school in law related secretarial ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — A connection between Marquette and her sister city, Yokkaichi Japan is being fostered through a new Children’s Museum video project series. The cultural exchange, says James Edwards, director of the Marquette Children’s Museum, was started as a way to eliminate stereotypes. The idea of the project was to showcase an average Marquette household family, and in turn, see how an average family in Yokkaichi lives. The data collected through these ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago SAWYER AIR FORCE BASE — Leo P. McDonald Elementary School at the KI Sawyer Air Force Base closed on Friday after 35 years and some 15,000 students being educated there. Pizza and ice cream lessoned the blow for the 155 students still attending the school, and they will be transferred to other districts on Monday. Bill Garrett of Ishpeming, who saw the funding and construction of 5 schools in the district including Sawyer in 1963, came to say goodbye. Garrett ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — A century old practice of charging Marquette property owners for a portion of city utility improvements ended Monday by a four to one vote. The city administration recommended that city commissioners no longer create special assessment districts for three neighborhood water projects. William Bellmore, owner of one of the North Fifth Street properties was one of several citizens who voiced his objections, saying that his neighbors had equal need for ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago COPPER HARBOR — The Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board has approved a funding package of $1.85 million to buy park property near the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The trust fund board approves an annual list of projects to be included in the program, which in addition to land acquisition, also provides for development grants like one totaling $60,000 recommended for Ishpeming. This year, the grant would pay for the development of a swimming beach on ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago GWINN — Prompted by a “sickening feeling” in his stomach, Kurt Marjonen is driving downstate with hundreds of signatures to stand before the Natural Resources Commission in Lansing to oppose the ban of deer baiting. Marjonen, the vice president of the Wildlife Enhancement of the Central Upper Peninsula, said that most people he spoke to agree with his stance, despite the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) claim that hunters cannot see eye to eye. Territorial disputes are what pushed the DNR to this ban, yet Marjonen sees no problem with self-governance and ...