Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - The A.D. Johnston High School class of 2018 said farewell to high school and hello to the next step in their lives on Friday evening in Bessemer. Megan Peterson, in her senior class farewell speech to her fellow graduates, closed with familiar words the Bessemer faithful, "Always remember, 'Go Speedboys and Go Speedgirls." TJ Mazurek, Serenity Plochocki and Alejandro Martinez ushered in the evening's presentation with the Pledge of Allegiance. All three, according to Dave Wineburner,...
IRONWOOD — Luther L. Wright fifth grader Sarah Lauzon received a third place writing award Friday from Gretchen Preston, vice-president of the Upper Peninsula Publishers Authors Association, and Larry Buege, Valley Cat series author and contest coordinator. The Dandelion Cottage Short Story contest was developed by Buege after his granddaughter wrote her first book at age 11. Buege figured other kids could also be inspired to write short stories, as well. Buege said the short story submissions caught him by surprise, as this was its first y...
BESSEMER — Scott David Salmi, 43, of Bessemer, was arrested during execution of a search warrant at the Black River Valley Pub on Thursday, was arraigned on Friday in Gogebic County Circuit Court. Salmi is charged with two felonies, conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine, a maximum 20-year, $10,000 charge, and possession with the intent to deliver meth, with a maximum 25-year, $25,000 fine. Salmi is scheduled for a March 29 probable cause hearing and a preliminary examination is set for April 10. Salmi’s bond is set at $200,000, with 10 percent...
BESSEMER - Dave Rowe, A.D. Johnston High School science teacher for the past 27 years, combined with the muscle and brains of his students, is working at creating a fishable pond in Bluff Valley Park. On Tuesday, Rowe presented the Bessemer City Council with an update on the work and a formal thanks for allowing the students to study in the park. Rowe said, "In one way or another I have been bringing my classes to the park every year for my entire teaching career," before elaborating on their...
BESSEMER — Black River Harbor will be closed until September, according Tony Holland, a representative from the Ottawa National Forest, who spoke at the Gogebic Coservation District’s meeting Friday in Bessemer. Gogebic Conservation District Administrator Jim Finley said Snow Country Construction had received a permit for work at Black River Harbor. Holland said he expected the footbridge over the Black River to be accessible through the work. Finley said Enbridge had received five permits for pipeline work in the county, adding he did not exp...
IRONWOOD - Mariah Moore, 20-time martial arts world champion with another 19 national championships, visited Gogebic Community College Friday to talk to 7-12 grade area students about bullying. She has an "Enough is Enough" anti-bullying campaign. Moore said she was an average girl, from a small town, without any appreciable gifts who through hard work, grit and determination became a world champion in martial arts at 12. Missy Lane, of Gogebic County Community Mental Health, said she first...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The parking area was packed, but the dancers were slow to take the floor at Little Finland's Fall Harvest dance Sunday afternoon. Priscilla Stephani and Ginger Benninghoff, two friends who said they have known each other for 60 years, were the first people on the dance floor. Benninghoff said she and Stephani were both cheer leaders at Hurley and they have been dancing together for years. Benninghoff also said there used to be a lot more dancing in the community than there is...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer city council will hold a public hearing on the special use request by the Gogebic Range Trail Authority this evening at 5:30 at city hall. The GRTA is requesting approval as sponsors for off-road vehicle use of the trail. It already is the designated sponsor for the same trail for snowmobiles. The GRTA says the people living beside the trail in Bessemer are already accustomed to the sound of snowmobile traffic on the trail and the trail has been an unofficial ORV trail for many years. This special use permit would allow...
IRONWOOD - Harness racing packed the grandstand Friday afternoon at the Gogebic County Fairgrounds for six, fast-paced races. Chris Frenzel, out of Marshfield, Wis., brought five horses to the fair for the Friday races. He said he started racing at 16. He said racing county fairs is much more laid back than racing on the betting tracks where they have significantly more rules and restrictions for both rider and horse. Riders warmed up their horses in different manners. Some riders will ride...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Carnegie Library is hosting a dual event on Monday to celebrate the end of the summer reading program and solar eclipse. Lynne Wiercinski, librarian, said Monday's event will kick off at 12:55 p.m. They would like all their summer readers, parents and everyone else who can make it to come to the library for the event. Wiercinski said they have glasses on hand. Having been listed as an official provider on the internet, they have given away a bunch of glasses, but also...
MERCER — VFW Post 9536 in Mercer is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 12 at 1:30 p.m. The general public is invited and the post has invited town dignitaries and business owners to join them, rain or shine. A covered pavilion is being staged in the event of rain. Bob Davis, commander, said the post meets in the library during the winter because the heating, which was installed in the early 1960s, no longer works well. Every year from winter until around May, Post 9536 is unable to use the building, which hampers its ability to function a...
IRONWOOD - Festival Ironwood opens Wednesday at Depot Park and surrounding locations in downtown Ironwood. Co-chairs Will Corcoran and Keith Johnson visited the Globe Thursday to discuss the event and how the Bergquist family really got the ball rolling 25 years ago and it has grown ever since. Corcoran stressed, "There is something for everyone at the events and most events are free." Johnson added the 30 to 50 volunteers working behind the scenes really allow Festival Ironwood to happen, from...
BESSEMER — Linda Nelson said the Fourth of July events in Bessemer went off very well. The weather did not result in any cancellations or delays, even though they had to move one event inside, planned as a contingency. Nelson said the 50-50 sales were “incredible.” The sales opened Tuesday, June 27, and the tent stayed busy. The fireworks committee tried to keep at least two people in the tent for sales, but at times had as many as five to six people making 50-50 sales. The events brought out a significant number of children, which Nelson compa...
BESSEMER - A low flying plane made three passes at tree-top level, right down Sophie Street, initiating the start of Bessemer's Fourth of July parade Tuesday evening. It was all a prelude to the Bessemer Blast parade and the Thunder on the Mountain fireworks show later at Massie Field. A large crowd had gathered on a sunny evening, as the Memory Lane Car Cruise broke the ice, showcasing their late model automobiles along the parade route. Detective Sergeant Jeremy Hauswirth, from Michigan State...
IRONWOOD - There is not much left to see. Fire consumed an Ironwood home at 23 Brogan St. in the vicinity of South Range Road early Friday morning. The fire was reported at 3:50 a.m., and by the time Ironwood Public Safety Department arrived on scene, the entire structure was engulfed in flames, according to officer Adam Clemens. Shortly thereafter, the metal roof fell in and made the fire even more difficult to extinguish, said Lt. Michael Rimkus. The IPSD initially thought the owner was still...
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College president Jim Lorenson, in his welcoming remarks before introducing John Lupino, chairperson, for the 83rd commencement in GCC history, said to the assembled students filling the lindquist Center, "Tonight is dedicated to you." The production required to get the right people on stage, the faculty in two lines for the graduates to navigate while shuffling students through this same tunnel consisting of faculty, put the emphasis on the graduates and kept the...
RAMSAY — A fundraising event begun to help defray the costs of shuttling Watersmeet football players to Wakefield-Marenisco over a decade ago has shed another skin and taken on new life. The first change was the initial birth, to help support the Watersmeet players with the initial football co-op so they did not lose football. The next transition was the dropping of Watersmeet and the adding of Bessemer, through which the football club stayed strong and added more supporters. Now with Ironwood joining the Gogebic Miners, Ironwood supporters a...
HURLEY - The Hurley Lions Club, with 40 to 50 members, is active in providing eyeglasses to the second and third world. To do this, the club maintains an old mailbox it painted purple and stationed in Giovanoni's store for people to drop off old eyeglasses. Smaller containers are stationed around the area for collection at other locations, including some eye doctor offices. Dave Traczyk, a Lions Club member since 1979, said each club decides which projects to align itself with. The Hurley club...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council came together in council's chamber Monday to discuss regular city business with a condensed agenda. The council approved the expenditure of $83, 192 dollars to pay the bills before Rob Coleman elected to read his correspondence publicly for addition to the record. Coleman reminded the room he was interrupted in the last meeting when he tried to speak by Kathy Whitburn and John Frello, which Coleman assumed was due...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Carnegie Library in Ironwood hosts a Pokemon Club every second and fourth Thursday at 4 p.m. Mac Byrne donates his time to work with the kids and the kids love getting together and playing with the different cards. Rachel Peck, a mother who brings her son, Sawyer, to all the Pokemon meetings, said he literally does a countdown until the next meeting. He knows when the meetings are and can barely wait between sessions, torturing his 5-ye...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Like a scene straight out of a Mario Puzo book, the skippers of the Range Oldtimers Softball League circled around three square tables Wednesday evening at the Aurora Club to discuss the upcoming season. Currently the league consists of seven teams, but a potential eighth team manager was present at the initial meeting. Jim Kuker, Rigoni's manager, held sway and moderated the meeting of the grizzled veteran coaches. Last year's end of...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer Planning Commission came together Wednesday evening and took care of business and the commission and audience turned around and went home, without any hard feelings being witnessed on either end. Charly Loper, city manager, informed the commission she would like the commission to either become a blight committee or join forces with the city counsel to form a blight committee that can enforce a more tactical blight code. The...
BESSEMER - Proponents of a May 2 bond issue gathered in the A.D. Johnston High School multi-purpose room in Bessemer Tuesday evening to discuss the bond and project. No one spoke in opposition. Beth Steiger, a school board member, made the presentation - chosen because she missed the last board meeting, she said. "What are we going to do for citizens of the future?" asked Steiger, adding that the town owes it to the children and their future to pass the bond and remodel the school. Steiger said...
BESSEMER — Louis Miskovich’s grandpa said Louis should be a barber, not only because the city of Bessemer needed a barber after the last one retired, but also because Miskovich has the gift for gab. Miskovich listened closely and set to becoming a barber, using his GI Bill to learn the trade and opened up a shop in the Bessemer Commons. Unfortunately, Miskovich’s dad took ill with cancer and died during this process. But before dying, and only after receiving his last half dozen hair cuts from his son, Louis Miskovich Sr. asked his son to se...
The Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour passed through the area Wednesday, somewhat in secret, as team officials kept their local schedule close to the vest. The team left Ashland, Wis., Thursday morning and had an event in Houghton Thursday night. In between they made three stops on the Gogebic Range Wednesday morning. The first stop was at the Hurley K-12 School, where school officials had tried to keep the news of their arrival a secret. The younger kids went to the gym, where they interacted...
