Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ONTONAGON - Protecting large walleyes in the Ontonagon River is a concern of Ontonagon County sportsfishing organizations. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources held a public meeting Thursday to receive opinions of the men and women who fish the Ontonagon River. The impetus for the meeting came from letters sent to the DNR from the Ontonagon County Valley Sportsmen's Club and the Upper Peninsula SportsfishermEn's Club, both located in the county. J.R. Richardson, Ontonagon, of the...
HURLEY — Members of the Gogebic Range Broadband Committee met this week to discuss moving forward with applying for a grant through the state of Wisconsin to expand Internet access to residents in northern Iron County. The committee is working on an application for a state Broadband Expansion Grant that would help fund the expansion of broadband Internet to residents around Saxon, Anderson and the Gile Flowage, using existing towers in the region. One of the towers, on Radar Hill near Whitecap Mountains and the town of Anderson, is owned by t...
Labor Day weekend means the imminent arrival of another school year for Gogebic County students. The first day of school for students in the Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield-Marenisco and Watersmeet districts is Tuesday. For students in the Ironwood Area Schools, classes begin at 8 a.m. with dismissal times of 3:05, 3:10 and 3:15 p.m. for grades K-2, 3-6 and 7-12 respectively. It will also mark the first year the district will have a K-12 principal, rather than both a K-6 and 7-12 principal. Denise...
HURLEY - Over 20 people attended Tuesday's meeting of the Iron County Regional Trail Committee, leading to the election of new leaders and the reaching of a consensus on how to move forward with bringing the regional trail through Iron County. The effort is the latest development in the ongoing effort to construct a non-motorized trail between the ski trails in Montreal, Wis. and Sunday Lake in Wakefield. Although no formal action was taken, the group agreed to move forward with the plan to...
MERCER, Wis. - The Iron County Land and Waters Conservation Department's "Conservation on Tap" lecture series wrapped up Tuesday, at The Pines in Mercer, with a presentation by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Biologist Sam Jonas on moose populations in the Upper Midwest with a focus on Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Minnesota. Jonas began his lecture by discussing the history of moose in the region. Historically moose populations were found in the upper midwest,...
IRONWOOD - Incoming Ironwood second grader Kaitlynn McCracken not only kept up with her studies over the summer by participating in the Ironwood Area School District's summer program but also received a gift certificate for attending 19 of the sessions. The program, designed to prevent students from "backsliding" and losing knowledge over the summer vacation, was open to the district's incoming second through 11th graders and offered the students a chance to work on lessons using the software...
Although they probably wish otherwise, today was the first day of the 2015-16 school year for students in the Hurley and Mercer school districts. Classes began at 8 a.m. for Mercer students and 8:05 a.m. for Hurley, according to information on each district's website. There was a familiar face in a new role when students arrived at the Hurley K-12 School this morning, with Melissa Oja serving as the district's dean of students. Oja had previously worked in the district as a middle-high school...
HURLEY — While more information is needed to see whether its a viable option, the Gogebic Range Broadband Committee discussed applying for grants from the state of Wisconsin to expand broadband internet access to Iron county residents at the committee’s Wednesday meeting. While there are several options and funding levels that could be pursued, the committee’s consensus seemed to be to pursue “the low-hanging fruit” and choose the option that requires the least investment and expense while serving as many people as possible. With this goal...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved naming Zoning Administrator Leroy Johnson as the township’s noxious weed officer at Monday’s meeting, pending Johnson’s acceptance of the position. Several board members brought up the logic in selecting Johnson for the position as there is likely a lot of overlap with his current responsibility of enforcing township regulations against blight. “Would (appointing Johnson) be a logical thing to do. A lot of times, the same nuisance things he would be checking, many times tho...
IRONWOOD - A group of residents gathered at the pavilion in Ironwood's Depot Park Saturday morning to receive assignments for the summer clean-up of the Montreal River. The clean-up was one of three this year, said Ian Shackleford - a botanist with the U.S. Forest Service which helped an organize the cleanup - and was coordinated by the Forest Service, the Ironwood Parks and Recreation Committee and the Iron County Land and Water Conservation Department. There was a clean-up using kayaks in...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The Iron County Farmers Market was especially crowded Saturday as the market dedicated a new sign commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Lucy Luoma Hantala Pavilion, the market's home. Located at the corner of 10th Avenue and U.S. 51, the pavilion is named after Lucy Luoma Hantala, a former teacher of one of the market's founding fathers, John Sola and a supporter of the effort to build the pavilion. "The market had applied for a grant to construct the new pavilion, but the...
BESSEMER - It was a party in Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park Saturday as the park was the site of the annual town picnic, hosted by Marty's Goldenaires. The day featured a variety of games for both children and adults, including penny pitch, chuck-a-luck, frog races, super-sized beer pong - which features soccer balls and garbage cans - and a corn hole tournament. There was also the standard summer picnic-fare of burgers, bratwurst, hot dogs, grilled corn and chicken as well as refreshments....
WAKEFIELD - Area residents now have another avenue to dispose of old medication with the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post unveiling a new medicine drop-off box on Friday. The box will be available for residents to use during the post's hours of operation, Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to trooper Warren Webster. The box offers an easy, anonymous way to dispose of certain prescription medicines, Webster said, adding that while post personnel will monitor the disposal to...
IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority board decided Thursday to make another effort to meet with the city of Bessemer to reach a resolution to the city’s exit from the authority. The decision came after Bessemer representatives were unable to make Thursday’s meeting and, according to documents provided at the meeting, requested a meeting some time in September. Bessemer’s city council voted to leave the authority at its March 16 meeting. At issue in the dispute between the city and authority is a disagreement regardi...
ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Wednesday’s Erwin Township Planning Commission began with township Supervisor Larry Grimsby running the meeting before the commission elected its officers. William Hellen was elected chairman, John Nuce was elected vice chairman and David Pawlak was named secretary. Prior to the meeting, all three officers as well as the two other commissioners — Roger Mussatti and Jim Anderson — were sworn in by Grimsby, which Grimsby told the Daily Globe was a precaution as the township was unable to find record of the oaths being adminis...
ONTONAGON - Geological engineers from Highland Copper demonstrated to the Ontonagon Area Board of Education Monday the application and advantage of the ArcGIS system, a collaboration between the mining company and the OASD. Tony Geglio and Eric Shepek, engineers with the mining company, explained how the software and technology applied to mining and to a myriad of other professions as well. The men were introduced by Dave Anderson, Highland's Director of Environmental Affairs for the Keweenaw,...
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - Given a third straight chance to finally win a major, Jason Day promised a fight to the finish in the PGA Championship. Turns out the biggest fight was to hold back the tears. Worried that this year might turn out to be a major failure, Day never gave Jordan Spieth or anyone else a chance Sunday. He delivered a record-setting performance at Whistling Straits that brought him a major championship he started to wonder might never happen. Day was in tears before he even...
HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved reclassifying Sarah Eder from a level 2 to a level 3 social worker Thursday. Iron County Human Services Director Carolyn Kolson-Janov said Eder has been with the county for five years — although she had worked in the county as an AmeriCorps and contract worker prior to joining the county full-time — and works with the child protective services and child welfare units. There are four levels of social workers, Kolson-Janov said, with four being the highest and applica...
IRONWOOD - Once again, its time for the annual tradition that is the Gogebic County Fair, which opens today and runs through Sunday. Starting at 10 a.m., today, the public can explore the fairgrounds until 8:30 p.m. and participants can drop off entries in all categories. The day will feature a youth challenge, beginning at 4:30 p.m., according to the fair's Entertainment and Marketing Chair, Kathy Jo Koval. The challenge features six teams of area youth competing in a number of "silly games,"...
ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Erwin Township hasn’t been up-to-date on paying taxes to the federal government. That was the news township Supervisor Larry Grimsby delivered to the board of trustees Wednesday. “It was discovered that we’re on the verge, the township is on the verge, of being put into collections by the federal government,” said Grimsby. Grimsby reassured the board and residents in attendance that, now the township was aware of the problems, the township leaders were taking steps to resolve the issue. According to Grimsby — who was reading...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — With a deadline a couple months away and more information needed, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees tabled a request from the Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress for a temporary reduction of taxes on the Mill Trace Apartments. UPCAP took over the low-income apartments located off Lake Road in June 2014, according to UPCAP’s Director of Finance Rick Aird. Aird said the complex was in “pretty dire straights” when UPCAP took over managing the property and UPCAP put $80,000 into the project for a number of item...
Jared Munch, 23, of Duluth, Minn., recently became the first person to travel around Lake Superior on a stand-up paddle board; a 1,350 mile journey that included a stop at Little Girl’s Point in Ironwood Township. Munch — a senior at the University of Minnesota-Duluth — spent the past three summers working at the school’s recreational sports outdoor program, instructing whitewater canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding classes. The classes not only helped him fund his journey but allowed him to build skills needed for the journey...
HURLEY - The weekend of events surrounding the 47th annual Paavo Nurmi Marathon began Friday as registration for the marathon - today from Upson to Hurley - was held at the Hurley K-12 school. Along with registration, Friday also featured the first two races of the weekend, a one-lap race around the track for kids, followed by a mile-long run. According to race organizers, Isabel Carlson took first in the one-lap event, followed by Lauren Kiecker and Devon Mead. Aksel Cichocki, Anton Klein and...
HURLEY — A group of local leaders met with representatives from La Pointe Iron Co., last week in Hurley to discuss the possible reception a renewed development of the mine site near Upson Wis., — by a company other than Gogebic Taconite — would receive in Iron County. According to Victor Ouimette, a member of the Iron County Board of Supervisors, the meeting was initiated by the company to feel out the local temperament regarding the possibility of a different company developing a mine. Among those at the meeting, according to Ouimette, were...
ALLEN PARK (AP) - Ndamukong Suh's replacement began fall practice on the injured list. Detroit Lions defensive tackle Haloti Ngata missed the team's first practice of training camp Monday with a strained hamstring. The five-time Pro Bowler, whom the Lions acquired from Baltimore in the offseason when Suh left via free agency, was on the field with his teammates, but he wore a hat instead of a helmet. Ngata did not talk to reporters as he left the field after practice. "Haloti actually during...
