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Superiorland Yesterdays

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE - Dressed in their black and red Japanese “happy coats,” delegates from this year’s sister city exchange brought goodwill messages and tales of their recent visit to Japan to the Marquette City Commission Monday. “My experience reaffirmed what we are told so often-people are the same all around the world,” said Marty Eskelinen of Big Bay. Eskelinen was among the 12 Marquette-area delegates who spent 10 days in Yokaichi at the end of May. ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago August 9, 1993 - MACKINAC ISLAND - The air is aflutter with the more than 200 colorful creatures that make Michigan’s only butterfly zoo a unique tourist attraction. About 25 species flit about the nectar-rich snapdragons, marigolds and other flowers in the Mackinac Island greenhouse created by Doug Beardsley. The former florist started phasing out his flower business three years ago when it became increasingly difficult to make a profit. “So when some guy ...

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 — The city of Marquette met its June deadline to complete preliminary engineering plans for a water filtration plant, but still hopes it won’t have to build the $9 million facility it says is unnecessary. Federal and state law requires municipalities using surface water to have installed water filtration systems by June 1993. Marquette Circuit Judge Raymond Jason in 1991 granted Marquette a variance until 1998. While the health ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING - Local agencies and communities are gearing up to help the families of striking iron ore miners. The families will receive food and financial assistance from the United Steelworkers of America, but even the cities of Ishpeming and Negaunee are preparing for late bills if the strike against two Marquette County mines continues. The strike against CCI and its partners is in its fifth day with no talks scheduled. The Tilden and Empire mines closed Sunday ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING - It’s official: The state will erect a traffic light on U.S. Highway 41 at Lakeshore Drive this summer. The Michigan Department of Transportation notified the city Monday that a recent study of traffic at the intersection shows it warrants a traffic signal instead of the existing flashing light, City Manager John Korhonen said. The City Council asked for a traffic light because the number of businesses in the area has increased over the last year. ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago HANCOCK - Between England and Japan, the Copper Country is but another unfamiliar place for sailor Hirohisa Tetsumura. The 57-year-old Japanese man, who is on the second leg of a voyage from England to his home country, docked his 34-foot craft Monday at Houghton County Marina. The journey began in spring 1992 when he set out for the Canary Islands from an English port. From there, he traveled to the Caribbean and back up along the east coast of the U.S. to Annapolis, Md., where he docked the boat last winter. “It was my dream to sail Hudson River,” he said. Following ...