EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — The arctic blast that froze the Upper Peninsula caused six water mains to burst in Ishpeming Wednesday, draining the city’s 500,000-gallon water tank. ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago EAGLE RIVER — A land use map that had been slated for approval by the Keweenaw County board of commissioners Tuesday night is instead on its way back to the planning ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — The Tilden Mine near Ishpeming has been fined $30,800 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating various PCB rules. The Tilden Mining Co., ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — A busload of 60 locked-out Minnesota steelworkers set up picket lines at Marquette County’s two iron ore mines this morning, causing traffic jams and ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE – A $374,000 grant will enable specialists at Marquette General Hospital to help treat patients at four rural Upper Peninsula hospitals. The federal Rural Electrification Administration grant will pay for an advanced fiber-optic telemedicine system based at MGH. The system will provide video conferencing and teleradiology between specialists at MGH and Baraga County Memorial Hospital in L’Anse, Helen Newberry Joy Hospital in Newberry, Schoolcraft ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago NEGAUNEE — MARQUETTE - Marquette city commissioners will tour the vacant Fire Hall No. 2 and review recommended renovations at 12:15 p.m. Jan. 7. The commission voted Nov. 9 to reopen the hall despite a recommendation from an independent consulting firm that it remain closed. The hall was closed nearly a year ago when an electrical fire damaged one wall and a small portion of the roof. The commission voted last summer to keep it closed, but the ...
