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30 years ago MARQUETTE — A semi-tractor trailer filled with leachate from the Marquette County Landfill turned on its side near the Carp River early Saturday afternoon, spilling foul smelling but nontoxic liquid onto the roadway’s shoulder and ditch. Driver George LaFave of Marquette said that when he crested a small hill, a snowmobile groomer in the roadway in front of him prevented him from passing. The rig is owned by U.P. Environmental of Bark River. The mishap took place at about 12:20 p.m. on Marquette County Road NP, less than one mile from the landfill in Sands Township. ...

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30 years ago ISHPEMING — The NICE board, meeting in special session Tuesday, asked for more, options as to exactly where to situate the new kindergarten through eighth grade school building on a 40-arce district-owned tract near the existing Westwood High School. Bob Paullin, the project consultant from Grand Rapids, will meet with the design team to develop a few more possibilities. The bidding process is expected to begin in late February with groundbreaking planned by June. The new school is expected to open to students in September 1997. 90 years ago MARQUETTE — Hailed as ...

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30 years ago NEGAUNEE — Susan Rasch had always heard people talk about how great it would be to have a winter festival in western Marquette County. “So I just said, ‘Let’s quit talking about it. Let’s just do it,’” recalled Rasch, owner of the Duck Factory in Negaunee. The result: the inaugural Heikki Lunta Winter Fest, set for Jan. 27 through Feb. 4 in the Negaunee-Ishpeming area. Heikki Lunta, of course, is the mythical Finnish god of snow, who has been busy this winter in the Upper Peninsula. A well known record in the U.P. a few years ago was the “Heikki Lunta Snow ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE — Although Lake Superior iron ore shipping declined this season, production was up in Marquette County mines, officials said. The Superior shipping season ends at midnight today when the Sault Ste. Marie locks officially close for the winter. This season some 6.8 million tons of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. iron ore traveled through the locks, down from 7.5 million tons in 1994 and 7.1 million in 1993. Located on the St. Marys River, the locks are the gateway to Lake Superior. Each Jan. 15 they close due to winter conditions and generally reopen around March 25. T ...

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30 years ago MARQUETT E — New City Manager Gerald R. Peterson got a true taste of the Upper Peninsula his first week on the job. Some 15 inches of snow blanketed the city Sunday through Tuesday, and his first public meeting was about ice. Peterson, who hails from McHenry, Ill., jumped right into the frying pan, so to speak, when he toured Lakeview Arena Tuesday and later that night heard comments in a public work session on the future of ice sports and ice facilities in Marquette. Welcome to life in the U.P. Actually, Peterson said snow, along with the natural beauty of the area ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE — The year 1996 marks the 150th anniversary of the Mining Journal, the oldest and most established newspaper in the Upper Peninsula. The Journal begins celebrating its sesquicentennial with a “Page from the Past,” the first of 52 weekly glances at historical U.P. and national news seen through the eyes of those who reported it. The weekly features will be part of each Wednesday edition throughout the year.   60 years ago MARQUETTE — Effective December 30 the “little merchant” system of distributing the Mining Journal by its carrier boys ...