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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 MARQUETTE - The City Commission will begin work tonight on finding alternate sources of revenue. On the agenda is a recommendation for a “Green Ribbon” committee to look over ways to raise cash other than the traditional millage increases that have long been the city’s major source of funds. Methods such as user fees for city services would be among the alternatives for creatively financing city services and projects. Members of the committee would be ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago ISHPEMING - A shower and changing building that will service three baseball fields and the football field at the Ishpeming Playgrounds will finally get hot water. The city council recently approved a $5,558 contract with Symons True Value Hardware in Ishpeming to install a system that includes a 75-gallon hot water heater and pump, five temperature mixing valves and two 300-gallon storage tanks, said City Manager John Korhonen. The hot water will be for two ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago NEGAUNEE — Nancy LaLande’s 90-year-old mother wants just one thing for Christmas - to be closer to her family. That won’t happen in time for this ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE - The Marquette Super 8 Motel, along with others in the chain, will offer free lodging Christmas Eve to friends and relatives visiting patients in hospitals, veterans’ homes, nursing homes or treatment centers. Because the number of rooms may be limited, rooms should be reserved as early as possible. Advanced registration should be made by contacting the property directly or by calling Super 8’s toll-free reservation center at (800) 800-8000. Last ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MARQUETTE - Bill Bergin, superintendent of the Marquette Area Public Schools, has announced schedule adjustments at the end of December and early January for grades K-5 of the Fisher/Superior Hills Elementary School. “The schedule adjustments will make possible the move from Fisher Elementary School to the new Superior Hills Elementary School,” Bergin said. “This move is a major undertaking and perhaps the first one in the history of our school district to ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference desk staff at Peter White Public Library. 30 years ago MUNISING — Mather Middle School will have 30 new desks for students next semester. The board last week approved purchase of the desks from the lower of two bidders, Beckly-Cardy of Lansing. The firm bid $75.88 per desk for a total of $2,276.40. Valley School Supply of Green Bay, Wis. submitted a bid of $88 per desk, or $2,640. The desks will be placed in a classroom that currently uses tables and chairs in lieu of desks, said Superintendent Steve Cromell. He ...