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Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — Marquette residents Carl Barnett, Dick Sarasin, and Hank Pascoe watched the first two freighters of the shipping season pull into Marquette’s ore dock near Presque Isle park Monday. The freighters, the Charles Wilson and Algorail, traveled in a broken ice path carved by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw. The eastern two-thirds of the lake remains frozen from the Soo Locks to the tip of the Keweenaw. “Marquette is pretty ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ESCANABA — The Delta County Historical Society and Escanaba Downtown Development Authority (DDA) are looking for donations to help save the Sawyer-Stoll building and other downtown structures. They are hoping to raise about $40,000 from Escanaba businesses and residents to preserve the 106-year-old building, which must be moved to make room for the new city hall/public library complex. The DDA is hoping to get support from local banks and other businesses in an ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — A spring storm dumped a foot of snow across the Northern Upper Peninsula Thursday. Wrecker companies were kept busy pulling cars out of ditches. Most of the problems we had were cars stuck in the ditch or bogged down in the snow, said Jeff Selesky, Marquette County Central Dispatch 900 coordinator. One Hancock woman was struck and pinned under a Chevrolet Suburban after slipping on ice, but is reported in fair condition at Portage View ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago MARQUETTE — A two-night police sting late last week found nine of 40 bars and carry-out stores 22 percent checked in Marquette County sold alcohol illegally to minors. That s well below the 45 percent violation rate found in September but it s a slight increase from the 19 percent noted in January. It definitely shows there is still a need for education, said Marquette County Team Voice Coordinator Sue Girard-Jackson, (Liquor sellers) need ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Police think they re closer to solving about a dozen breaking and entering cases with the arrest of an Ishpeming woman Thursday. A variety of household items valued at about $3,500 were recovered from two Ishpeming residences. The woman lived in one of the homes, police said. The items are believed to have been stolen from about 12 camps in Ishpeming, Ely and Tilden townships over the past year, state police said. 60 years ago MARQUETTE — At ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MICHIGAN — UFO researchers are descending on southwestern Michigan this week as reports continue to filter in from dozens of people who say they saw something unusual in the night sky March 8 from Grand Rapids to the Lake Michigan shoreline. What makes the case so unusual, says Walter Andrus, director of the international Mutual UFO Network, is that the sightings seem to coincide with unexplained radar trackings from the National Weather Service office in ...