Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Gogebic Community College’s Art Space displayed student art Friday and Saturday, with 12 artists showing their work. The show will be open through graduation on Thursday. Kaite Anderson, a graphic communications student, has several pieces in the showing. “Drawings are about the emotions that we hide,” Anderson said. Photography is her favorite medium because she likes the challenge. “I like to take something broken, like an old building, and make it beautiful,” she said An...
IRONWOOD — Tim Mesun played his third benefit for HOPE Animal Shelter at Theatre North Saturday evening. It was the 12th benefit he has played in his career. He was joined on stage by Matt Agee in a special performance by “La Fratelli Azzuri,” or “The Blues Brothers,” in English. “I really enjoy jazz and blues, and I am performing five new songs tonight,” Mesun said. His last benefit for HOPE raised $400. His new songs included, “Destination,” and “Canto di Ringraziamento,” wh...
WAKEFIELD — Water levels of Sunday Lake fell 2 feet by Saturday, then another 2 to 3 inches by Sunday, said Scott Gronert of Kleiman Pump and Well Drilling of Iron Mountain. The company has been monitoring water levels around the clock after pumping water out of the lake for two days, said Gronert. M-28 was closed during the pumping. The highway was open over the weekend. “If the water starts to come up again, we will call the city and the Michigan Department of Transportation to get the road closed again,” said Gronert. It would take betwe...
EAST LANSING — A total of 32 Bessemer middle and high school students traveled to Michigan State University in East Lansing to compete in the 31st Michigan Science Olympiad on April 27. Regional competitions in February and March narrowed more than 400 high school and middle school students down to 96 teams. The high school team finished 33rd of 48 high school teams, while the middle school placed 39th out of 48 middle school teams. “Although the competition was fierce, our small school did ver...
IRONWOOD — After 20 years in business, Joe and Beverly Rohde are closing the Range Flour and Feed on May 24. The business has had a presence in Ironwood since 1921. When the Rohdes took over the business, they had five or six bags of grains and four fish tanks, and they built the business up on their own. At one point they were processing 450 tons of corn a year and they bagged it all themselves. They also had up to 40 aquariums of fish at a time, as well as reptiles, birds, hedgehogs, and o...
HURLEY — Havenwood Baptist Church sponsored a ‘Singspiration’ Sunday evening at the Hurley School auditorium, with Vic Eliason from VCY America. Eighty-eight people brought their voices to sing and share fellowship. Songs included old favorites, starting out with “Jesus Loves Me.” Eliason said that VCY America started its first radio station in Milwaukee in 1961. Today they have 95 radio stations in 40 states, and are heard in 44 countries over the internet. They also have three television stations in Wisconsin; in Marion, Wittenber...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — DOVE Inc. celebrated its 35 active volunteers on Tuesday night at the Elk and Hound. The theme of the evening was “Planting the seeds of kindness.” DOVE Inc. also has a seven-member board of directors which helps to guide the agency in its mission. Board members include Andrew Digiorgio, Pete Matonich, Candy Pogliano, Mike Rimkus, Jane Baker, Yvonne Novascone and Gary Olkonen. “It is because of them that we can do what we do,” said Pamela Niemi, Volunteer Coordinat...
HURLEY — Little Finland hosted a traditional Laskiainen, or ‘sledding day,’ luncheon of pea soup and kropsu on Sunday. Kropsu is a Finnish pancake baked in the oven and served with jellies or syrup. Buttermilk, coffee and Finnish bread were also served. The event drew around 50 people, For more than 30 years the event has been hailed as a pre-Lenten celebration, in February, but this year it was moved it to April, said Sonja Luoma, event organizer. A Finnish heritage center, Little Finland also features a museum, a gift shop, walking trails and...
BESSEMER — Flood season preparations are under way in Gogebic and Iron counties. According to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad, roughly 10,000 sand bags have been purchased this year, with about 17,500 bags available in case of flooding emergencies. Sand bags have also been purchased in Gogebic County. The last big flood on the Gogebic Range was in 2002, said Jim Loeper, Gogebic County Emergency Management Director. He has reviewed records of the flood to determine what e...
IRONWOOD — Ironwood’s firefighters joined forces to create the new Ironwood Fire Division Tuesday. The organizational change fused together the Ironwood Public Safety Department’s firefighting efforts and the Ironwood Volunteer Fire Department into one entity, said Ironwood Public Safety Fire Officer Brandon Snyder. Firefighters are anticipating a better command structure, and more accountability on the fire scene, said Snyder, Ken Jacobson, Ironwood Volunteer Fire Department chief since 1991, said it’s basically worked this way for a long ti...
IRON BELT, Wis. — “The weather threw a little curve to us,” said Sandy Larson at the district Lion Club convention at Whitecap Mountains Friday afternoon. Larson, Lion’s Club District Convention Chair, is attending the conference for Lions across Northern Wisconsin. She is from Rhinelander. Some of the speakers scheduled for the weekend cannot make it due to the spring snow storm, said Hurley Lions Club treasurer Bob Traczyk. Another speaker, scheduled to present at the Hurley K-12 School...
Prom season kicks off tonight with Wakefield-Marenisco High School’s prom at the Wakefield VFW. Seven area proms will be held through May 11. School and other public officials have tips for precautions to make sure the celebrations stay safe and everyone has a good time. For Wakefield-Marenisco, once the teens are at the prom site, they must stay there until it is over, as they will not be readmitted if they leave, said Melody Saubert, W-M high school secretary and junior prom advisor. For the p...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Carnegie Library is celebrating National Poetry Month in April. Throughout this past week, assistant director Lynne Wiercinski has worked with children, introducing them to the world of poetry. On Monday, a local Girl Scouts troop listened to works by Shel Silverstein, and Wiercinski worked with third grade students at the Norrie School in Luther L. Wright on Tuesday. A poetry event is planned for adults on Monday at 5:30 p.m. at the library. Participants can read and d...
WAKEFIELD — John Diddams of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development spoke on invasive species Tuesday at the Wakefield Loggers Jamboree. Diddams said that one of the biggest issues in Gogebic County is giant hogweed, which is a hazard to humans. It can cause blistering, burning and scarring; and children in England have gone blind from using the large stalks as ‘telescopes.’ Gogebic County is the largest giant hogweed site in Michigan. It looks a lot like cow parsnip, “but...
