30 years ago

MARQUETTE — About $250,500 in federal funds will be available to the city of Marquette for a project designed to reduce future deep freeze damage to sewer and water systems. The money, hazard mitigation funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will pay for $514,568 project to enlarge, change direction of flow and deepen sewer and water lines. The Michigan State Police Emergency Management Division will contribute $73,500 to the project. The city of Marquette will contribute $220,568, a FEMA press release said. The lines involved in the project are Pine Street between Fair and Kaye avenues; Kaye Avenue between Russell and Pine streets; and Russell Street between Fair and College avenues. The funds were made available through the disaster declaration issued by President Clinton on May 10, 1994, for severe infrastructure damage caused by a prolonged deep freeze the winter of 1993-94.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Marquette will launch a one-way traffic program on N. Front and Third St. next Monday. The program, under study for a long time, was tentatively approved by the Marquette City Commission last November, on recommendation of city officials, and formally adopted earlier this year. Chief of Police George G. Johnson said that starting promptly at 6 a.m., Monday, the one-way traffic program will go into effect. Traffic will be permitted to flow only northward on N. Front St., from Washington St. to Fair Ave., and only south on Third St., from Fair Ave. to Fisher St. The chief said these changes are expected to result in a much better flow of cross-town traffic, which soars sharply in the fall due to activities at the Marquette Senior High School and Northern Michigan University.

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