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Superiorland Yesterdays

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago MUNISING — The Alger Underwater Preserve Committee has hit a snag in its effort to sink a tugboat as a sport diving attraction in Munising Bay. Concerned about safety and liability risk, the Munising Coty Commission voted last week to ask the preserve to remove the tug, the Steven M. Selvick, from the city dock by Sept. 1. Earlier this year, the commission gave Peter Lindquist, president of the preserve, permission to moor the Selvick at the city ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago TRAVERSE CITY — Debris spotted with a human body near the Edmund Fitzgerald wreckage last month appears to be cork blocks from a life preserver, says leader of the group that explored the site at the bottom of Lake Superior. The find suggest the crewmen may have known they were in trouble before the ore-laden ship sank in 1975. Previously, no trace had been found of the sailors killed when the Fitzgerald succumbed to a monstrous storm Nov. 10, 1975. 60 ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Department of Natural Resources firefighters today returned to the scene of a stubborn brush fire that has apparently been burning for two days in a remote area of north Marquette County. The fire was reported by a private pilot about 6:25 p.m. in hilly, rocky terrain south of the Redd Road and north of the Dead River Basin. The Ishpeming Township Fire Department searched for the fire for about three hours Tuesday night before it was located. The ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Early results from a federal research vessel’s Lake Superior water quality tests are better than expected, officials say. “To date… we’ve found the water in excellent condition,” said Stephen Lozano, technical director for the Great Lakes Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. “We should be proud of it.” Lozano, one of seven researchers skirting the south shore of Lake Superior this month, said an abundance of the ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Enrollment declines and a drop in residence hall occupancy at Northern Michigan University have forces the closure of two floors of Hunt Hall. NMU spokesman Jim Carter said the projected drop is “considerably more” than last school year’s decrease. He linked the decrease to a dip in the population of high school seniors in the Upper Peninsula, as well as the impending closure of Sawyer Air Force Base and budget cutbacks in the area of student ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Like life, turning 100 years old has its ups and downs, said Eva Hamel Rochon of Ishpeming Tuesday while celebrating a century on Earth. “It is sad to be 100 years old because God doesn’t want me and the devil won’t take me. I can’t go up or down so I stay here and wait,” said Rochon, whose only devilish quality may be her sense of humor. Hard work, no tobacco, rarely a drink, a sense of humor and ‘tons’ of pasties are some of ...