30 years ago

ISHPEMING — The NICE school board will hold a special meeting Thursday to narrow down the list of architectural firms for the design of a new school. The board hopes to decide on a list of three potential candidates for the task of designing the $9 million kindergarten through 8th-garde school to be build near Westwood High School. Construction on the school is expected to begin this summer. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. at Westwood High School.

60 years ago

NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — Snow, temperatures near freezing and frost, that sounds like a late fall or early winter forecast, but it’s the situation in Marquette today. In fact, the mercury actually plunged to 32 degrees at the Marquette County Airport in Negaunee Township, making it the coldest reading in the nation today. The overnight low in Marquette was 40, but the mercury kept dropping after daybreak and hit 34 at 10:15 this morning, the lowest reading here since it was 31 on May 13. The record for today, however, is 29, in 1894. It was snowing steadily after mid-morning in Marquette and in most inland places. The Copper Country also had snow. It was the first snowfall here in five weeks.