By VIRGINIA PAULSON Negaunee Historical Society NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School has one of the oldest interscholastic programs of any school in the Upper Peninsula. It dates back to the 1894-95 school year, only 15 years after the first graduating class of 1879. The only activities of ...

ISHPEMING — “We have several letters for our boy Billy, but he asks that they not be printed because the war department is rather against it. Anyhow, Billy says he doesn’t want the notoriety. He tells us he is well; that he hasn’t been sick a single minute since he left home; that he ...

NEGAUNEE — The problems old mining towns have trying to rise up from the ashes don’t always adapt perfectly to economic realities of modern life. As mines close, local businesses either wither, or go with the flow, most wither. It was 1974, 50 years ago, that the Negaunee Economic ...

ISHPEMING — There was a space of over two months between published letters from William Newett. This reflects the fact that Company C of the 107th Engineers (a renaming of their regiment) journeyed across the ocean to England, France and the battlegrounds of World War One. Father George ...

NEGAUNEE — Another school year is approaching and it seems like a good time to look at some school history from Negaunee Public Schools. It was the year 1875, Varnum B. Cochran was the first administrator to bear the title of superintendent. That year the high school faculty consisted of ...

ISHPEMING — George Newett, editor of Ishpeming’s Iron Ore, had two sons fighting in World War I. One of them, Will Newett, would have parts of the letters he wrote to his father, George, published in the pages of the Iron Ore. Both The Mining Journal and the Iron Ore regularly ...