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I-75 Business Spur maintenance over I-75 in
 Sault Ste. Marie starts July 20

SAULT STE. MARIE — The Michigan Department of Transportation will be performing maintenance on the I-75 Business Spur bridge over I-75 in Sault Ste. Marie, requiring traffic signal changes on the bridge beginning Monday, July 20. Work will be completed from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. each night. The work is expected to be completed by Wednesday morning, July 22, but may extend to Thursday, July 23, depending on the weather. Motorists should expect one lane of alternating traffic open on I-75 BS with temporary traffic signals. The existing ramp signals will be placed in flash mode. A 12-foot lane ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE – The Marquette Community Foundation handed out $60,991 in grants during 1995, a press release on the organization’s annual report said. A 2,000 grant went to the Marquette Rotary West Foundation and benefited the community playground at the Mattson Lower Harbor Park. Other recipients included Marquette/Alger Young Authors, Superior String Alliance, Northern Lights Youth for Christ and a variety of other local groups that requested a grant. 60 years ago MARQUETTE – Northern Michigan University’s record summer enrollment of 1,890 students includes ...

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Strawberry royalty

CHASSELL – Dusty Lippold was crowned Strawberry Queen before a packed crowd at the Chassell Strawberry Festival Friday evening. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Lippold is a graduate of Chassell High School, where she was an honors student and an active member of the National Honor ...

Talk with the Doc

Robotic surgery is defined as a method to perform surgery using very small tools attached to a robotic arm. The surgeon controls the robotic arm with a computer. The primary source of the following robotic surgery information is from the US National Library of Medicine. A patient undergoing ...

Firebird explodes, details shared

ESCANABA — There is one less Pontiac Firebird in the world after an explosion in downtown residential Escanaba on Friday night. The two people who had been traveling in the car when it caught fire escaped. The high-performance automobile, a 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am WS6, was owned by ...