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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — Local leaders spoke in support of a bill that would allow off-road vehicles to cross certain bridges and access state highways through a videoconference Thursday at Gogebic Community College. State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, set up videoconference locations across the Upper Peninsula to allow citizens to weigh in on Senate Bill 50 during a meeting of the Senate Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Committee. Casperson introduced the bill with hopes that the l...
HURLEY — Alex Marciniak will present a piano concert to benefit the Hurley Education Foundation Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in the Hurley K-12 School auditorium. The concert will include the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, 30 variations on an aria theme in G Major. While Marciniak, a instructor of speech, music and other fine arts at Gogebic Community College, has performed many of the variations in concert before, this is the first time he has presented the entire work. “It’s very beaut...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area School Board of Education accepted a bid to install a keyless entry system during a meeting on Monday at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood. Three bids were submitted for the project, and the board selected the lowest bid from Northstar Electronics in Ironwood. The cost is $8,842.17 and includes installing systems to the the entrance at Sleight Elementary and the main and West Pabst Street entrances at LLW. According to superintendent Tim Kolesar, the system includes a buzzer, allowing a potential visitor to n...
KIMBALL, Wis. — Local Finlanders, and non-Finnish people alike, gathered at Little Finland on Sunday for the annual dance dedicated to St. Urho’s Day. St. Urho’s Day takes place on March 16 and is a Finnish holiday. The legend of St. Urho says that he chased grasshoppers out of ancient Finland to save the grape crop and the jobs of the Finnish vineyard workers. Each year, people wear purple to celebrate his day. At Little Finland, the annual dance has been taking place for many years, but as to...
KIMBALL, Wis. — A benefit dinner drew scores of supporters for Mike Tijan in his fight against multiple myeloma Saturday at the Kimball Community Center. Tijan has been battling the disease for eight years, and is now facing a stem cell transplant. His brother Andy is a blood match. Their sister, Teresa Vitovksy, said Mike has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments to decrease his cancer levels. She said that when Mike is well enough for the procedure, he and Andy will travel to the Mayo Clinic for the stem cell transplant. T...
IRONWOOD — The Downtown Art Place held an open house Saturday, in conjunction with the Take 3 concert at the Ironwood Theatre. The open house was the second for the Downtown Art Place. Annette Burchell said the event was intended to attract visitors to the DAP and also to showcase new handicapped-accessible restrooms. “Through donations we were able to construct the two restrooms, which will be shared with the Ironwood Theatre,” she said. The open house served as a membership drive for DAP,...
MERCER, Wis. — Mercer resident Jane Zillmer has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2013 American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek show in Paducah, Ky., April 24-27. Her quilt, “Oh, Mexico Beach,” along with 401 others, was chosen to go on display and will be judged. Winners will receive first, second or third prizes in 15 different categories, along with nine overall awards being given. The show is expected to draw more than 30,000 people, and quilts were entered from 46 states and 11 countri...
WATERSMEET — The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe presented its semi-annual revenue sharing funds to Watersmeet Township and Watersmeet Township School officials Friday afternoon at the casino. The funds, also known as 2 percent funds, are presented to local units of government twice a year as part of 1994 compact with the state, according to tribal board vice chair and 2 percent committee member Joette Pete-Baldwin. On Friday, the township received a check for $158,235. The school’s check was for $22,500. According to Pete-Baldwin, any group, thr...
HURLEY — The Iron County Finance Committee approved financial help for the Iron County Memorial Building Thursday. In February, members of the Hurley American Legion came before the committee to ask for help in paying utility bills for the building. The building is owned by the county, but the American Legion leases it, and with declining numbers in bowling leagues, the Legion said it needed help in finding alternative revenues. Legion members asked for $4,000 to get the club through September....
HURLEY — Second and third grade students in Kristin Kolesar’s class at the Hurley K-12 School are now authors, penning a book on the history of the Titanic. On Wednesday, students read and signed copies of the book, “Journeys on the Titanic,” for parents and grandparents at the school to celebrate it being published. The book consists of fictional stories each student wrote about a passenger on the ship. The stories highlight the passengers’ trips from Southampton, England, to New York in A...
VATICAN CITY — The world has a new pope, and the effects are being felt all the way from the Vatican to the Gogebic Range. The general emotion felt by local priests is excitement at the announcement of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio being elected pope Wednesday afternoon. He is from Buenos Aires and will be known as Pope Francis I. “I am very excited about this,” the Rev. Frank Kordek, of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Hurley, said. “He is a man who lives simply, living in an apartment,...
IRONWOOD — U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, is looking forward to his second term in Congress, despite a rocky start with the uncertainty surrounding federal budget cuts and a looming government shutdown. “I don’t really see this as a Democrat or Republican thing,” Benishek told the Daily Globe in an interview Monday afternoon. “The House has voted on a few things, but the Senate hasn’t passed a budget in four years. That’s no way to plan anything. We’re governing from crisis to crisi...
IRONWOOD – Gogebic-Iron Marine Corps League Detachment 1133 held a spaghetti dinner Sunday at the Breakwater in Ironwood to benefit the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette and the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King. Detachment Commandant Gary Kusz said the money raised is used to help fund activities for the veterans at the two facilities. Kusz said the fundraiser has been taking place for around 10 years. He said the idea is to help contribute to the daily routines at the two homes a...
