Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Pile it up and they will come. In a brutally cold winter, Lake Superior's ice formations continue to attract thousands of tourists and local residents, from Bayfield to Little Girl's Point. An estimated 4,000 people have been walking along the Lake Superior ice to the sea caves near Bayfield every weekend. Likewise, hundreds of people have been carefully edging out on the blue ice at Little Girl's Point on a typical weekend day. Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce director Dorrene O'Donnell told...
ASHLAND, Wis. - A pickup truck was demolished in a Wednesday afternoon accident on U.S. 2, near the top of Birch Hill, in the Odanah area. A semi tractor and trailer registered to the Redline company, of Saginaw, Mich., was involved in a collision with the Dodge truck around 1:30 p.m. The Ashland County Sheriff's Department was investigating the accident that slowed traffic and left debris on the roadway. The mangled passenger vehicle ended up on the bed of a tow truck, ready to be towed away,...
BESSEMER - Former Ironwood City Commissioner Tom Laabs was appointed to the District 2 seat on the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday. Acting at a special meeting, the board voted 5-1 for Laabs. Brandon Snyder received his lone vote from board chair Tom Gerovac, of Ironwood. There were two other candidates for the open position that was created when Dan Siirila moved out of District 2. Dave Ramme and Mike Wiemeri also submitted letters of application, but Wiemeri withdrew from...
IRONWOOD - City of Ironwood public works employees on Monday were repairing a water line break near the Gogebic County Fairgrounds that was discovered over the weekend. Ironwood Public Safety Department officer John Colassaco was on patrol around midnight Sunday when he noticed a large amount of water and ice on the highway across from Curry Park. The report indicated it was a break in an area where many repair jobs have occurred in the past. According to Bob Tervonen, city utility manager, brea...
SILVER CITY - More details have been released concerning the dramatic Monday afternoon rescue of two snowmobilers in blizzard conditions near the Porcupine Mountains. Michigan State Police earlier noted Benjamin M. Jenney, 40, and Benjamin M. Jenney Jr., 19, a father and son from Albertville, Minn., were found about two miles from the nearest road. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday released the names of the people who rescued the snowmobilers after they were reported...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Gogebic-Iron County Airport Board is in a wait-and-see mode regarding the future of air service for Ironwood. Great Lakes Airlines announced Monday it is suspending service at Ironwood and five other airports effective Feb. 1, citing a lack of pilots. The airport board is now awaiting opening of bids to provide essential air service at the airport that are due by Feb. 5. Airport manager Mike Harma said Tuesday if an airline bids on providing service to Ironwood, it may...
In what has turned into one of the most brutal area winters in modern history, the Gogebic Range on Monday shared in the bone-chilling cold that hit much of the Midwest. Area schools canceled classes Monday as the overnight low dipped to -20 degrees across the Gogebic Range, with gusting winds sending wind chill readings to 40-below. Many school districts also canceled classes for today. The blue ice that arrived near shore at Little Girl's Point on Lake Superior over the weekend looked...
HURLEY - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he's working on making sure propane heating fuel gets to state residents. Walker said at a press conference in Hurley that he has been in contact with Texas Gov. Rick Perry's office about obtaining propane. Walker also said he has issued executive orders waiving weight limits so large amounts of propane can be brought into Wisconsin. With the temperature about minus-9 degrees in Hurley on what was a typical night for this winter, Walker said,...
HURLEY - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received numerous rounds of applause in a speech at Hurley Thursday, but the crowd didn't break into a standing ovation until he said he believes mining in Iron County can be done safely and in an "environmentally sound" manner. Walker addressed the joint Hurley-Ironwood Area Chambers of Commerce awards banquet at the Iron County Memorial Building a day after delivering his state-of-the-state speech. Those who expected a short speech were in for a surprise....
BESSEMER - After hearing overwhelming support to continue the Michigan State University-Extension program, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday agreed to sign the annual agreement with MSU. The county board was not pleased with how MSU had handled a vacant 4-H coordinator's position in the past year, however it approved the memorandum of agreement to continue with MSU after a public hearing was attended by about 35 people before Wednesday's county board meeting. The board also...
The Martin Luther King holiday brought a return of cold weather to the Gogebic Range Monday after a warm winter weekend. Temperatures returned to around the zero mark and today's high was forecast at only 3 degrees. There was only a slight chance of snow in the forecast, but lake-effect precipitation fell steady throughout Monday morning in downtown Ironwood. The National Weather Service's Marquette office issued a wind chill advisory extending to 10 a.m. today, saying 20-below to 30-below...
IRONWOOD - Area hunters fear the worst may be yet to come regarding deer numbers in the western Upper Peninsula. Hunters voiced concerns about lack of deer to the Department of Natural Resources at a Thursday meeting attended by about 75 people at Gogebic Community College. One hunter said it was the first time in 40 years he didn't buy a deer license. He said there was no need to because there were no deer in his area. Suggestions from the hunters ranged from closing deer season altogether to...
HURLEY - A Milwaukee woman faces a possible prison sentence of 46 years after being convicted Wednesday by an Iron County jury of being a party to trafficking a child for commercial sex acts and physical abuse of a child. The 10-man, two-woman jury found Nikia Burchette, 28, not guilty of a third count of being a party to the crime of human trafficking, however. The jury deliberated only an hour and 15 minutes before reaching its verdict on the second day of the trial. Iron County Judge Patrick...
IRONWOOD — Without much fanfare, the company that plans on purchasing the former White Pine mine drilled for ore samples north of Ironwood over the summer. Ross Grunwald, vice-president of exploration for the Highland Copper Company Inc., told an audience of about 30 people Thursday at Gogebic Community College that the company had test drilled in the Bald Mountain area, near Lake Superior. The focus of the meeting was the former White Pine mine and some of the people attending the public session seemed surprised that there is interest in devel...
IRONWOOD - Highland Copper Company's plans to acquire the former White Pine mine received a $25 million jolt this week, according to the project manager. Ross Grunwald told about 30 people attending a Thursday night session on plans to mine near the former mine that the money was raised by stock sales on Wednesday. As of Sept. 30, the company had only $4.3 million in cash on hand. The $25 million will go to exploration and development of Highland's Upper Mineral projects, including the one at...
SAXON, Wis. - There's good and bad news for fishermen who'd like to get out on Lake Superior from Saxon Harbor to ice fish. The good news is that the ice has been forming rapidly with the sub-zero temperatures. The bad news is massive ice mounds are building up along the shoreline, which will make it difficult for fishermen to get out farther onto the lake, where the fishing's the best. There was open water as far as the eye could see at the harbor just a week or two ago. The cold weather could...
IRONWOOD - The condemned structure at 213 Bonnie St. has been demolished and work has begun on removing the refuse. Ironwood City Manager Scott Erickson told the city commission last week that the removal of the demolished building and the considerable contents is a work in progress. He said different materials in the structure have to be sorted before they can be removed and metal items were trucked away last week. The city is paying Jake's Excavating $53,000 to clean up the blighted parcel....
The employment picture in Iron County, which has the highest jobless rate in Wisconsin, didn’t get any better in November. The latest report from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development lists the county with a 13.2 percent jobless rate, compared to 12.1 percent in October and 11.9 percent a year ago. Neighboring Vilas County shot to a 9.5 percent unemployment rate in November from 7.8 percent in October. As a result, Vilas County moved from seventh to fourth in the percentage of residents unemployed. Oneida County worsened from 6.9 p...
IRONWOOD - Developments centered on Ironwood's Depot Park, including visits from Gov. Rick Snyder and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, were voted the Daily Globe's No. 5 story of the year. When Calley visited Jacquart Fabric Products in the industrial park, Bob Jacquart, CEO, asked for a show of hands of people in the crowd who had worked on Depot Park improvements. About 30 hands shot up, or half of those at the gathering. Bricks and sod were placed at the Depot, a pavilion was constructed and a...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission will consider a $150,000 Christmas gift at Monday’s meeting. Mark and Denise Stephens, of Bessemer, would like to donate common stock to the city with an approximate value of $150,000 to be used for an electric ice and edging machine for the Patrick O’Donnell Civic Center rink. The city owns the center, which is on the campus of Gogebic Comminuty College. The donation must be acted on by Dec. 31. Commissioners will consider stipulations set with the offer, including that the machine be a Zamboni and that...
HURLEY - A 53-year-old former Oma, Wis,, man was freed from a 42-year prison sentence Monday in Iron County Court. Donald Miller, who had been sentenced on a first-degree sexual assault with a dangerous weapon count in 1998, had that charge amended to a third-degree sexual assault charge, which carries a nine-year sentence. Since Miller has served 5,913 days in prison and jail, or more than 16 years, that exceeds the nine-year sentence and he'll be released for time served. In 1997, an Iron...
MARENISCO - A long wait paid off for a Marenisco hunter in Michigan's elk hunt. Lucia Pairolero and her husband-guide, Frank, applied for Michigan permits to hunt elk for 20 years before Lucia drew one this year. The big day came for her last Saturday in the Gaylord area of the lower peninsula. On opening morning of the hunt, about a half hour into the season, Lucia bagged a six-by-seven (horns) bull elk that dressed out at 665 pounds in the Atlanta area. The live weight was estimated at 750...
HURLEY - A spectacular 4:50 p.m. Thursday blaze destroyed a Hurley Silver Street supper club and resulted in heavy smoke that could be smelled as far away as the Kmart store off U.S. 2 in Ironwood. Hurley firefighters battled the thick, black smoke at Wishbones restaurant that caused the closure of traffic on Silver Street. Winds from the west blew the smoke right down the main street toward Ironwood and affected businesses on both sides of Hurley's main street. "It's like a mushroom cloud,"...
IRONWOOD - Many spectators viewed Friday evening's Jack Frost Parade in the comfort of downtown Ironwood businesses as wind chill readings of minus 7 sent them indoors. Most of the parade watchers arrived just before the 6 p.m. start to line both sides of Aurora Street because frequent breezes combined with the zero-degree weather to make conditions brutal. At Hitt's Fine Furniture, where the raffle ticket winners were announced at 5 p.m. Friday, spectators both young and old viewed the parade...
From 4 to 8 inches of snow was predicted for tonight and Wednesday throughout the Gogebic Range and cold air is expected to follow. The National Weather Service warned the snow could mix with rain, causing some potentially hazardous driving conditions. A spokesman for the NWS said if the front shifts farther to the east, it could increase snowfall totals. The storm was moving out of the Rockies and tracking into the Upper Midwest, combining with moisture that was streaming up from the Gulf of...
