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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE — Four Negaunee High School Students are on their way to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the 1992 National Leadership Conference of Business Professionals of America Wednesday. The theme of the four-day conference is “Success is an Attitude.” The students will participate in contests, workshops and an election campaign. Attending are Jennifer Hill, Negaunee Business Club president, who will be competing in Entrepreneur Individual and Entrepreneur team, areas in which she placed first in the state competition.; Nicole Paquette, club treasurer, and Nicole Filizetti, club parliamentarian who are also members of the entrepreneur team; and Robert Ellerbruch, the fourth member of the delegation who’s competing in the Computer Specialist contest.

90 years ago

NEWBERRY — The last charge at the Newberry furnace was on Tuesday and the furnace was banked at 2:30 p.m. beginning the shutdown of the pig iron and chemical part of the Newberry Lumber and Chemical Company of this place. The fires were not drawn and will be kept alive ready to start should circumstances warrant it. The retorts were stopped during last night but there will be enough liquor in the chemical department to keep going until the end of the week. With about two million feet of cut timber in the woods the camps are being closed this week but the crews will mostly be kept busy loading out for shipping to the plant.