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ESCANABA The Escanaba City Council approved a resolution Thursday in support of renaming the Escanaba River Bridge after the late Tom Casperson, who represented the Upper Peninsula in the state legislature for many years.
Casperson served in the Michigan House of Representatives for six years, starting in 2003. He was then elected to the Michigan Senate in 2010, serving until he was forced to leave the legislature in 2018 due to term limits. He died on Nov. 29 following a battle with lung cancer.
During Thursday’s meeting, Mayor Marc Tall read in part from a resolution to rename the U.S. 2 and 41 and M-35 bridge over the Escanaba River to honor the late legislator, who was instrumental in the reconstruction of the bridge. The bridge was completely reengineered and widened over a two year period, being completed in 2019.