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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee City Council has accepted a downstate company’s $33,600 bid for maintenance work at the city’s water tower on Pioneer Avenue. PTM Painting of Woodhaven submitted the lowest of four bids that were as high $56,000. Maintenance will include interior and exterior repainting, lettering, installation of a fall prevention device, valve removal, and non-hazardous waste disposal. No startup date has been scheduled, but work is to be done as soon as possible.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE — About 150 Marquette residents whose applications for free fuel have been approved by the county welfare authorities have registered to date with Stephen Lowney, Jr., 119 West Park Street, who is directing wood chopping operations on the section of land reserved for persons living in this city. All Marquette residents who have received permits to cut wood and can haul their own wood and can haul their own wood or who have arranged to have someone haul it for them have been directed to report to Mr. Lowney, who registers their names, gives them copies of regulations governing the wood cutting and assigns them to an area in which they may get their fuel.