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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 HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University should not be blamed for financial wrongdoing and bad investments by a private development company it established, administrators say. The university responded to an audit that described the school’s foray into private business as an almost total failure. The report by the state auditor general said Michigan Tech administrators showed “an inattentiveness to the university’s integrity and its ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Union and M.E. International management representatives met Wednesday and today, defining the rights of 50 employees who will be out of a job by the end of May. “We’ve been trying to communicate what will be happening so that everybody knows what the next step is going to be as we wrap up operations here,” said John Haas, manager of the Ishpeming foundry, which will close around May 28. Don Mattson, a staff representative for ...

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 — Those interested in the future of Marquette’s art community are asked to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the new Oasis Gallery, 227 W. Washington St., Marquette. The meeting of the board of the Marquette Art Council is being held to discuss the physical plant needs of the area’s performing and visual arts groups. Artists, members of art agencies and other interested people are urged to attend. In addition, the council will ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago ESCANABA — Bids have been advertised for construction of a juvenile detention center in Escanaba. The state Department of Social Services project has been delayed since announced in 1989. Plans for the project now are moving full speed ahead in an effort to secure a building permit before a new state building code goes into effect May 6, according to Doug Bovin, chairman of the Delta County Board of Commissioners. The $3.4 million project will ...

Superiorland Yesterdays

30 years ago MARQUETTE — Karen and DeWayne Reeves, both 23, walked around the shiny new Chevrolet compact and squinted in the bright light of the Superior Dome Friday. With Karen toting 10-month-old Danielle, the couple stepped back and took the long view. With a sticker price of well under $10,000 making it one of the least expensive cars at the Marquette Area New Car and Truck Show, it was big investment for a young family just starting out. Looking along with the Reeves family were thousands of central Upper Peninsula residents, many driving distances in wintry weather to review ...

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 — Ten one-week graduate-level workshops will be offered during the 1993 summer session by Northern Michigan University’s Department of Continuing Education and the Seaborg Center. Registration will begin Monday at the Continuing Education Credit Programs Office, Room 410 of the Cohodas Administrative Center. The workshops will cover such topics as environmental education and outdoor science, geology of the Upper Peninsula, using ...