30 years ago MARQUETTE – Members of the Marquette Korean Karate club, Northern lights Cuong Nhu, and Marquette Taekwondo clubs will join together in a “kickathon” to raise money for area Drug Abuse resistance Education programs at the Bothwell Middle School gym from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – A survey by the Marquette Country team Voice project at the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department indicates it’s harder for underage drinkers to buy alcohol in Marquette County than it was several years ago. In February 1993, an MCTV study found that underage ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE – Little rain fell last month. The average temperature for September was 54 degrees, only one tenth of a degree below normal, according to climatological data released by the national station in Negaunee Township. The highest temperature for the month was 83 degrees ...

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 ...