30 years ago MARQUETTE – The Build a Dream Playground group, in preparation for the June construction of a playground at the Mattson Lower Harbor Park, will present their plans to the Marquette City Commission tonight. There will also be a presentation by the city’s Winter Cities planning ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – In the catacomb-like basement of the old Rosewood building on South Front Street, massive wooden timbers, recently hewn from an Upper Peninsula forest, rise from hydraulic jacks. The jack-and-timber system supports three floors of historical structure overhead, while ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – Local artist Jill Kline will be signing her two new limited edition prints at The Artworks Gallery from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27. Kline was last year’s recipient of the First of America Bank’s Directors’ Choice Award and has been accepted into the ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – K.L. Cool rock-and-rolled into the Upper Peninsula Tuesday and brought with him a new old friend. Sporting a Snoopy tie, a duck hunting pin and a boom box used for an earlier employee presentation, the new director of the Department of Natural Resources said his ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – The group of lawyers and associates raising funds for a $2,500 painting of retired Marquette County Circuit Judge Raymond Jason has reached its goal. Attorney Mark Stevens of Marquette said the money for the oil-on-canvas portrait was raised in little more than a ...

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 ...