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30 years ago GWINN — Prompted by a “sickening feeling” in his stomach, Kurt Marjonen is driving downstate with hundreds of signatures to stand before the Natural Resources Commission in Lansing to oppose the ban of deer baiting. Marjonen, the vice president of the Wildlife Enhancement of the Central Upper Peninsula, said that most people he spoke to agree with his stance, despite the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) claim that hunters cannot see eye to eye. Territorial disputes are what pushed the DNR to this ban, yet Marjonen sees no problem with self-governance and ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MUNISING — This month, the Munising Post welcome’s their newest Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) instructor Troy Fellows. Beginning in January, Troy will start talking to fifth and sixth grade students in several area schools once a semester. The DARE curriculum will reach 107,106 students in Michigan this school year, and aims to develop confidence and self-assurance in children. Officers claim that this effort goes beyond telling kids to say no to ...

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30 years ago MUNISING — Munising City Commissioner Rod Desjardins has volunteered to serve on a new committee aimed at giving Munising and Alger County law enforcement officials enhanced computer access to suspect and vehicle information. The Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) Committee will meet for the first time in January to study the feasibility of the city and county budgeting to finance a LEIN computer terminal for the county dispatch. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. McKie are the winners of the grand prize, a $50 savings bond, in the 1964 Christmas ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Firefighters early Wednesday extinguished an electrical fire in a tractor-trailer truck at the Taystee Bakery, 855 W. Washington St. Marquette. No one was injured and damage was confined to the tractor. Six firefighters in two fire engines and a department pickup truck responded to the fire at 25 minutes before midnight. They left the scene a 1:10 a.m. Fire chief Tom Belt said a watchmen reported smoke in the bakery and firefighters had to search ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Two board games are available locally based on Marquette County locations. Once of the games, Marquette-opoly, is a fundraiser for Whitman Elementary School’s playground improvements. The game, which costs $19, tax included, is based on city locations and has a picture of a lighthouse on it. The Marquette County game has a number of businesses advertised on the box and is being sold for $20 plus tax, at some locations. 60 years ago ISHPEMING — ...

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30 years ago MARQUETTE — The first of a series of covered walkways on Northern Michigan University’s campus is taking shape between the first floor of Gries Hall and the Bottum University Center. Unlike other covered walkways planned and proposed for the campus, this $600,000, 260-foot walkway is elevated on cement pylons. Its completion is expected in February. Bruce Raudio, director of facilities for NMU, said Gries Hall itself is undergoing a $3.6 million renovation from a dormitory to faculty offices and should be finished in January. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — Fred Mueller, ...