30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette County will study how much it would cost to pay probate court workers for being on call at night and on the weekends. The in-house review was ordered by the Marquette County Board’s Committee of the Whole Tuesday after four unionized probation officers ...

30 years ago ISHPEMING – The Marquette County Road Commission will scale back the number of employees working overnight shifts and now collect interest on fees it charges townships for work to balance its 1996 budget. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — A Learning Resource Center scheduled to be ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – The Upper Peninsula’s unemployment rate edged upward to 8 percent in December, .4 percent above the November rate of 7.6 percent. The December 1994 rate was 6.8 percent. However, the monthly declines were offset by job gains in general merchandise stores and ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE - The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community will provide the financially strapped Marquette County Road Commission with a much needed financial boost. The gaming compact that all tribes signed with the state of Michigan in 1993, will allow for this. KBIC will give the road ...

30 years ago Ishpeming – A busted water main flooded Ishpeming on Saturday. Mother Nature’s frigid grip ruptured a 12 inch water main spreading 250,000 gallons over four downtown blocks. Public works crews in Ishpeming were expected to work until the early morning to repair the water main ...

30 years REPUBLIC — The idled Republic Mine, once the mighty lifeblood of this small west Marquette County town, is being permanently closed, the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company announced this morning. Idle for 15 years, activities necessary for closing the mine have begun. After suspending ...