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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Families that suffer from domestic violence in Marquette and Alger counties will soon be able to get help from a state grant that uses federal money to provide in-home counseling and other services. Susanne Kensington, executive director of the Women’s Center, said the project is designed to bring one-on-one help to women and children who live in homes affected by domestic violence and want help. She noted the project is also aimed at heading off domestic violence before women are forced to take refuge.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Lightning struck several trees and other objects in the area during yesterday afternoon’s severe thunderstorm, but only one report of lightning hitting a house was received. Damaged when struck by lightning was the Charles H. Anderson residence as 316 W. Kaye Ave. Lightning blew off the vestibule door in the rear of the house, breaking the door and causing a one-foot by three-foot hole in the kitchen wall inside the house.