30 years ago ISHPEMING — A chemical leak this morning at the water treatment plant in Ishpeming posed no danger to the drinking water supply for Ishpeming and Negaunee, said Ishpeming Fire Chief Ed Anderson. The Ishpeming Fire Department responded at 9:11 a.m. to the water plant because of ...

30 years ago NEGAUNEE — The Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee Township will relive the early days of Marquette at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20 with a presentation of “Amos Harlow, His Life, His Family, and His Times” in the museum auditorium. Through costumes, sliders, and dramatic ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — About $250,500 in federal funds will be available to the city of Marquette for a project designed to reduce future deep freeze damage to sewer and water systems. The money, hazard mitigation funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will pay for $514,568 ...

30 years ago CHATHAM — Two college students who live thousands of miles away from each other met face-to-face recently after becoming acquainted months earlier on the Internet. Stuart Rutter, 19, of New Castle, England met Chatham’s Jana Eklund, 20, while surfing the net last November. The ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum has received one pallet of Formica counter top material from Kellogg Wholesale Building Supply Company of Traverse City and the Formica Surell Company. The donated materials valued at $6,000 will be used on work surfaces and ...

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Marquette police officers investigating a bomb scare are seeking persons who were in the vicinity of Marquette County Road 550 and Wright Street early Thursday evening. Officials received a telephone call from a telephone booth at that location at about 6:55 p.m. ...