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Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago RESEARCH VESSEL EDWIN LINK — The Edmund Fitzgerald has been Tom Farnquist’s passion since he heard the first radio reports of its fatal plunge to the bottom of Lake Superior. Nineteen years later he has come face to face with the legendary vessel which inspired him to establish the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and the museum commemorating the voyages. “It’s always been a dream to get a look at it firsthand.” Farnquist said Monday after a two ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years MARQUETTE — Researchers are trying to slow the spread of the gypsy moth in the Upper Peninsula by setting traps for the males. The Gypsy Moth ‘Slow the Spread’ project is underway in the UP, Virginia, and North Carolina. Green triangular cardboard traps have been set in a 20-mile-wide area that runs from Munising, to Escanaba and Manistique. Officials hope UP landowners will cooperate with the project being conducted by the US department of Agriculture, the ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee school board on Tuesday adopted a nearly $9 million budget for the 1994-1995 school year. The budget will require using $25,000 in savings, said Superintendent Don Mourand. The district will begin the school year with only $102,000 in savings because of $91,000 in insurance payments in July and August that previously were paid by the state, Mourand said. The only time the fund balance ahs dropped this low in the past 17 years was 1986, ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago SAWYER — Just a few minutes before the US Air Force Thunderbirds were scheduled to touch down at Sawyer Thursday, a handful of spectators looked up and saw nothing. Then out of nowhere and with a deafening roar the six F-16 fighter jets rocketed just a few hundred feet over the base control tower, splitting in all directions as they climbed straight into the sky. The Thunderbirds precision flying team wasn’t scheduled to perform until 3:30 pm at the base open ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago PALMER — Mining operations have been halted in a small area of the Empire Mine because a natural form of asbestos has been unearthed. “Several specimens of waste rock taken recently from one of the Empire pits contain a limited amount of fibrous substance known as amosite, which is a natural form of asbestos,” said a press release from mine manager Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. CCI spokesman Don Ryan said the asbestos-like material was found “in a limited ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years BIG BAY — Over 100 drag racers from all over the Upper Peninsula competed in eight classes during the inaugural mud drag event at the Big Bay Valley Mud Drag course Saturday. “It’s just a hobby for most of the people here,” Marquette racer Mark Schumacher said. “You see some of the trucks have names on them like Addicted To Mud and In Love With Mud. Once you race, that’s what happens…you just get into it.” Most people get into this hobby with nothing ...