30 years ago

HARVEY — The state has ordered Harvey Oil Company to clean up gasoline-contaminated soil and groundwater and to pay for replacing at least 10 residential wells. In an Administrative Order issued Tuesday, the Department of Environmental Quality said the contamination “poses a substantial endangerment to the public health and welfare of the environment.” The order requires Harvey Oil to comply within 30 days, because of the risk to public health, legal tactics cannot be used to delay action, said DEQ Environmental Quality Analyst Carol Stuht.

90 years ago

ISHPEMING — An unusual record has been made by Mae St. Onge, pupil of the North Lake school, who has been neither absent nor tardy in nine years of school attendance. She entered kindergarten at North Lake in 1927 and completed work in the eighth grade this year. In recognition of her perfect attendance record, she was awarded a pen and pencil set.