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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – More than 74 inches of snow have fallen already this season, setting the stage for downhill and cross-country skiers. “It’s been an excellent season. Mother Nature sure has been cooperating,” said Bob Epps, lift manager at Marquette Mountain. The Marquette ski ...