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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — The scheduled opening date for the new Superior Hills Elementary School has been postponed from September to December 1993. Students will now remain at Fisher School for the first half of the school year and return to the new facility after Christmas break. “It will be an inconvenience but we will have a two-week break to move in over Christmas,” said Superintendent Bill Bergin.

The setback is the result of a two-month delay in obtaining a wetlands permit over the summer and the early onset of winter weather that resulted in above-normal frost depths. The Marquette Area Public School Board of Education approved the revised construction schedule Monday.

The schedule revision provides for completing work begun on the school’s multipurpose room and enclosing it the winter and delaying the remainder of work until weather permits in the spring of 1993. According to the Barton Mallow Construction Company, the board will save $30,000 from what has been budgeted for additional winter construction costs.

60 years ago

SAULT STE. MARIE — A federal grant to establish a school of practical nursing at War Memorial Hospital here has been announced by Kenneth Shouldice, hospital administrator. Schouldice said the grant is being made under the Federal Manpower Training Act, which provides funds to retrain workers among the hard core of the unemployed. Twenty-five students from Mackinac, Luc, and Chippewa Counties in eastern Upper Michigan would be enrolled in a 48-week course. Amount of the grant will be announced later.