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30 years ago ISHPEMING – Dan Mouch hasn’t bowled very often—or well—at Country Lanes in Ishpeming. That all changed Wednesday night when the 23-year-old Marquette resident rolled his first career 300 game in the Country Classic League. Burying his first 12 balls of the night in the strike pocket, Mouch added games of 147 and 257 for a 704 series. The 300 was the sixth bowled at Country Lanes and ninth bowled in Marquette County this season. Mouch is a regular in leagues at Eastwood Lanes and Windmill Lanes in Marquette, where he carries and average of around 190. Last season, he ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette’s Northern Lites women’s hockey team, which plays its home games at Northern Michigan University’s PEIF ice arena, has been gaining experience and community support since its inception back in the late 1970’s. The 20 women on the team have built a reputation for the Lites as one of the formidable women’s squads in the Midwest. “In 1977 or 78’ they were playing intramural (hockey) here at Northern, and that’s when a lot of these players started,” said Kelly December, who has played defense for the Lites the past 10 years. It ...

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30 years ago NEGAUNEE – The 32nd Annual Negaunee Invitational Basketball Tournament got underway Friday night at Negaunee’s Memorial Gymnasium. North Country Engineering of Negaunee must have drawn a good game plan as it defeated the Westwood Rejects of Ishpeming, 71-60, in Class EE. North Country’s Steve Heliin led his team with 13 points, while teammates Pete Borlace and Jeff Poutanen pitched in 12 apiece. Dan Etelamaki pumped in game-high 19 points for the Rejects. Dean Schultz added 12. In Class DD action, Twin City Dodge of Negaunee drove past Gwinn Crossroads Mini-Mart, ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – A downstate television station owner has applied for a permit to build a new station in Marquette. Thomas Scanlan of Traverse City, who currently owns WGTU/WGTQ channels 29 and 8 in Traverse City and Sault Ste. Marie, wants to broadcast on Channel 19 in Marquette. The Federal Communications Commission set aside Channel 19 for Marquette in the late 1980s and awarded a construction permit to a Green Bay, Wis. Television executive. No action was taken on the permit, however, it expired several years ago. “We are very serious about development here,” said ...

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30 years ago SKANDIA – You can keep “The Hokey Pokey” as far the second graders in Nina Olsen’s class at Skandia Elementary School are concerned. The top song on their dance chart is the “Don’t Be Lazy Song,” an energetic ditty they learned Monday during a “March is Nutrition Month” program. “I used to be lazy but now I’m not,” confided Susan Maki as she and her classmates jumped, shook, and marched along to the beat. The Skandia second grade is one of the classrooms adopted locally by Weight Watchers to teach better nutritional habits. The other participating ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette will get a “dream” playground this spring when some 600 volunteers embark on a four-day construction festival. The Build-A-Dream play structure, pegged for Ellwood Mattson Lower Harbor Park, has been described as the “crown jewel of playgrounds,” by designers Robert Leathers & Associates. Come June 13, the official kick-off day of what organizer Judy Vonck calls a “four-day festival,” volunteers will erect the 10,000-square-foot, barrier free playground. “It’s going to be just like a barn raising,” Vonck said. “You don’t need ...