30 years ago MARQUETTE – Marquette moved a step closer to filtered drinking water Monday, when city commissioners approved a $3.5 million contract for what will become the largest microfiltration plant of its kind in the nation. The total cost for the project is expected to be $6.7 million. ...

30 years ago REPUBLIC – Supporters of the Upper Peninsula-based Navy communications system known as Project ELF have won their second battle this year to keep it in the federal budget. Congressional negotiators settling differences between House and Senate versions of a 1996 defense ...

30 years ago BERGLAND – Archaeologists excavating a historic copper mine in Ontonagon County this summer unearthed what they believe are the only two examples of an early Cornish mining device ever found in North America. Ottawa National Forest and Michigan Tech University archaeologists ...

30 Years ago UPPER PENINSULA – Michigan environmental groups Thursday went to court seeking protection for pristine Lake Superior from toxic pollution, saying Gov. John Engler has refused to take the step himself. The suit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. asks the U.S. ...

30 years ago EWEN – Voters in the Ewen-Trout Creek School District have agreed to fund a new school building to replace three aging facilities. By a 736-693 count, residents said yes to a new school. It will house the district’s 540 K-12 students. Voter turnout was an estimated 65 percent. ...

30 years ago ISHPEMING — Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. will close its century-old maintenance shops in Ishpeming on Dec. 31, after the company and the United Steelworkers of America failed to reach accord on a sale to a third party. A total of 65 employees, 55 hourly and ten salaried, will be ...