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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board’s Committee of the Whole Tuesday recommended renewal of contracts with Marquette and Tilden townships for supplemental police services. Under the contracts, Tilden Township will purchase 20 hours of law enforcement patrol services per week from the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department — at a cost of $25.48 per hour — from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1993. Marquette Township will purchase 40 hours of patrol services per week at the same price from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1993. The contracts are renewals of agreements that have been in effect since January and February of 1991, respectively.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — The annual Girl Scout cookie sale, the big fundraising project of Timberlane Girl Scout Council, will begin Monday and continue through Feb. 21. Orders for the cookies will be taken throughout the 10-day period, according to Mrs. C.T. Barr, public relations chairman. All orders must be turned in to the various cookie chairmen by 3 p.m. on Feb. 22: North and Central Neighborhood — Mrs. Don Bower; South Neighborhood — Mrs. Glen Engman; Sawyer Air Force Base — Mrs. Samuel Firtzky; Ishpeming — Mrs. Lowell Small; Negaunee — Mrs. Toivo Talus; Skandia — Mrs. John Heath; Palmer — Mrs. August Erickson. The Scouts will deliver the cookies during the week of March 11, which is National Girl Scout Birthday Week. Profits from the sale go into each troop’s treasury for troop activities.