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Superior Yesterdays

60 years ago MARQUETTE — The Marquette & Huron Mountain Railway, an all-steam scenic line, was scheduled to resume operations today. Beset by financial problems, the railway had discontinued operations last year in its second season. However, Jerry Pulliam, executive vice president of the Marquette Chamber of Commerce, said he had been informed by operators of the line that it would resume daily trips, starting today. The schedule, Pulliam said, calls for trains to leave Marquette at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day for a round trip to Harlow Lake, a run of about nine miles one way. He ...

UPSET gets new commander

MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team is getting a new commanding officer. The Michigan State Police has announced the promotion of Detective Sergeant Matthew LaBonte to detective lieutenant, where he will oversee UPSET. The Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team ...

An unusual armpit

“I found a lump in my armpit,” Amina, a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, told her doctor. She explained that the mass had been there for the past 12 years. The doctor began asking questions, the way doctors do when trying to narrow a vast realm of possibilities into a diagnosis that makes ...

Deceased man recovered from Cloverland Power Canal in Sault Ste. Marie

SAULT STE. MARIE — Sault Ste. Marie police released a statement detailing the conclusion of a search operation in the Cloverland Power Canal after a deceased man was found. “The Sault Ste. Marie Police and Fire Departments have concluded the search operation for an individual who entered the Cloverland Electric Power Canal from the Ashmun Street Bridge on July 24,” said their statement. “The individual, an adult male, was located today within the canal near the Cloverland Electric power plant and was found deceased. Out of respect for the family, the individual’s name is not ...