30 years ago

MARQUETTE – The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community will provide the financially strapped Marquette County Road Commission with a much needed financial boost. The gaming compact that all tribes signed with the state of Michigan in 1993, will allow for this. KBIC will give the road commission $50,000 to help offset the cost.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE – More than 5,600 Boy Scouts in the Hiawathaland (Upper Peninsula Council) are observing this week as Boy Scout Week. Charles L. Foreman, Marquette council scout executive said the council has 5,686 boy members and over 1,800 adults serving in all 15 counties of the Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. The Pere Marquette District is the largest of the six districts in the council with over 2,000 boys registered. The Pere Marquette district includes all of Marquette and Alger counties.