30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Seniors at Marquette High School nabbed all but 42 or 500 parking permits allotted to students this year. Juniors who didn’t get the first-ever $20 stickers say they will be parking on neighboring streets and lots around the high school. The permits were distributed when students picked up course schedules last week. The school board in July approved the permit process at the high school in an attempt to reduce crowded parking conditions.  Because there were no controls o parking, visitors to the school often had to park several blocks off campus, said school district Superintendent Bill Bergin.

60 years ago

NEGAUNEE — Forsyth Township residents have presented state Rep. Dominic Jacobetti of Negaunee with petitions bearing more than 800 signatures which seek immediate improvements on Highway M-25 between Little Lake and Palmer. The petitions request that M-35 be widened, repaired and re-surfaced. Rep. Jacobetti disclosed today that he had traveled a stretch of M-35 for a weekend meeting with township residents, and counted 107 curves between Palmer and Gwinn, all of which were hazardous. Jacobetti pointed out that there has been considerable increase in traffic over this portion of M-35 in the last few years because of the population increase which followed installations of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, the growing number of residents in the Negaunee-Ishpeming district who own cottages on lakes in Forsyth Township, and the number of township residents who drive daily to work at the new Empire Mine in Palmer.

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