Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY - It will be Anthony Stella facing Republican Matthew Tingstad in the Iron County District Attorney's race in November after Stella won Tuesday's Democratic primary. Stella received 483 votes to Elaine Erickson's 251 votes in the race to represent the Democratic Party on the November ballot. Tingstad, who was the lone Republican running to replace outgoing District Attorney Marty Lipske, received 230 votes. The district attorney race was the lone contested county race on the ballot. The...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The recent detection of the presence of coliform bacteria in the water at the Lake Road spring, near Powers Road at Little Girl's Point, will likely lead to the spring's closure. Lynne Madison, director of the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department's Environmental Health Division, said the spring was tested July 29 after the department received a complaint of an illness. Madison said during the investigation of how the person got sick, it was discovered he or she drank...
MERCER, Wis — It was a warm, sunny day Wednesday as the town of Mercer filled with people celebrating the 36th annual Loon Day Festival. “We’ve got a great day (today),” said Tina Brunell, the executive director of the Mercer Chamber of Commerce “It’s very warm but we’ve lucked out on our events this year, we’ve had good days for our events.” While the attendance was good, particularly in the morning, Brunell said the head may have caused caused some to cut their visits short. “People are kind...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Among the contests decided in Tuesday's primary election were Ironwood Township's supervisor and treasurer races. Steven Boyd and Maria Graser won their races for supervisor and treasurer, respectively. Boyd, a current trustee on the board, defeated former township supervisor Marvin LaGrew by a vote of 361 to 288 in the bid to replace outgoing supervisor Alan Baron. Boyd's 361 votes represented approximately 55 percent of the voters casting ballots in the race, to LaGrew's...
CAREY, Wis. - A group of over 20 people gathered near the B-47 crash site monument Saturday for a brief ceremony marking the dedication of a pavilion at the site. "If it wasn't for your group - this crash site has obviously been here since the crash, and it sat dormant for decades," Carey town Chairman Bob Walesewicz. "It's so nice to see someone stand up, take charge, a group come together and put together a facility like this. "It means so much our community, it means so much to the families... Full story
Gogebic County voters will head to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in Michigan’s August primary. Besides several party primary races which will determine the names on November’s general election ballot, there are six millage renewals in various jurisdictions across the county on Tuesday’s ballot. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. At the county level, Prosecutor Nick Jacobs, Clerk Gerry Pelissero and Treasurer Sue Pertile are running unopposed as Democrats, while Republican Jim Loeper isn’t facing a challenger for drain commission...
IRONWOOD - As residents continue to use the Western Gateway Trail in Ironwood, work continues to extend the popular trail into Bessemer. The first section of the trail runs from the Montreal River to Ironwood's eastern city limit, with the next section extending to Bessemer's Moore Street. Paul Anderson, a project manager with Coleman Engineering who has been working on trail development in the area, said work on Phase 2 of the trail is scheduled to be completed by the end of this construction...
HURLEY - As Iron County continues to recover from the storms and flooding that hit the region earlier this month, a group of AmeriCorps volunteers arrived to help residents cleanup storm damage in their homes. The eight volunteers that make up team Cedar 4 - between the ages of 19 and 23 - came from the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps' North Central region; which includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The team...
When Gogebic County voters head to the polls Tuesday, they will not only be casting their ballots for state and local primary races, they will also be decided a number of area ballot proposals. A total of six proposals will be on area ballots, although the total number of proposals an individual voter will cast a vote on varies depending on where the voter lives. The ballot features a total of three county-wide measures, one millage renewal for Bessemer Township residents, a millage renewal for voters in the Ironwood Area School District and a...
HURLEY - Town, county and state officials gathered at the Iron County Forestry and Highway building Tuesday morning to meet with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency regarding the cost of damages from the heavy rains and flooding that hit the region earlier this month. The meeting began with preliminary damage assessments of the various road washouts and damage to Saxon Harbor, before the group travelled to a number of storm-damaged sites - including the harbor - to see...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Monday’s Ironwood Township Board of Trustees meeting began with the addition of Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso’s resignation to the meeting agenda. Following a closed session to discuss personnel issues, the board accepted Olson-DeRosso’s resignation, effective Aug. 22. In addition to accepting the resignation, the board also voted to ask the Michigan State Police to begin an investigation in order to “assist (the township) in resolving discrepancies in the audit that the we could not resolve ourselves,” according t...
Iron County students attended the county’s annual 4-H summer camps earlier this month, an opportunity to get away from home and interact with their peers in a different setting. Children in third through fifth grade attended the traditional camp at North Lakeland Discovery Center in Manitowish Waters from July 12 to 15, while those in sixth and seventh grades attended outpost camp at Lake of the Falls. The camp at the discovery center — now in its 16th year — offers a range of activities including swimming, nature activities, archery and arts a...
BESSEMER — The second defendant in the Sunset Road methamphetamine lab case pleaded guilty in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday to one count of operating/maintaining a meth lab. Sara Anne Harris, 31, of Ironwood Township, pleaded guilty to the 20-year felony as part of a plea agreement that has three other charges — a second count of operating a meth lab and two counts of operating a meth lab near a residence — as well as a conspiracy charge, dismissed at sentencing. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said Harris admitted to her role...
SAXON, Wis. - Workers at Saxon Harbor on Wednesday retrieved the final sunken boat they had locations for as they continued to deal with the aftermath of the July 11-12 storm that flooded Saxon Harbor. Shortly after 4 p.m., a team comprised of T&T Marine Salvage, Cheyboygan, Michigan-based Durocher Marine and Great Lakes Diving and Salvage loaded the hull of a 42-foot 1978 Hatteras, owned by Neil Gilbertson, of Saxon, onto a barge for transport back to the harbor. The operation was overseen by a...
HURLEY - The Iron County Highway Committee authorized an agreement with the state of Wisconsin that will allow repairs to the portion of County A in Saxon washed out during last week's storm to begin as soon as possible. "Looking at A and the urgency of getting down to the harbor, last Tuesday we started asking questions if we could run it through our emergency let so we could get it done and out the door, designed quicker," Nick Vos, with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - Gov. Rick Snyder took an aerial tour of Little Girl's Point Monday morning to see the after effects of last week's storm. Snyder - who declared a state of emergency for Gogebic County Friday - traveled by helicopter to survey the washouts on Lake Road, which occurred after heavy rains July 11 caused widespread flooding on the Point and left many residents stranded of several days. Following the tour, Snyder landed in the boat-launch parking lot next to Oman's Creek and...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, toured part of Little Girl's Point to see first hand the damage to Lake Road resulting from the heavy rains and flooding following a July 11 storm. Casperson began his trip at the Michigan State Police post in Wakefield before traveling to the Point via Lake Road. The tour took roughly four hours, with Casperson stopping to look at the damage caused by the flooding, including several of the washouts on Lake Road, and talking to...
ASHLAND, Wis — Most drivers can once again get to and from Ashland using U.S. 2, after the highway reopened for “car and light vehicle” traffic Saturday. The highway had been closed after storms the night of July 11 washed out part of the road and caused the Bad River to flood over the roadway. According to a post on the Ashland County Sheriff’s Department’s Facebook page, a detour around the Kakagon Bridge has been opened. Heavy trucks and semis are prohibited from using this detour and must continue to use the established detour of U.S. 51,...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - With cheering occupants, a line of cars crossed the bridge over Oman's Creek, heading east on Lake Road shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, signaling the restoration of access to part of Little Girl's Point. The vehicles were the first to cross the bridge and leave the Point since heavy rains and flooding washed out a number of culverts in the area Monday night. Divers inspected the bridge's foundation Friday morning, according to Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer-Manager...
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order Friday directing state and federal flags to be flown at half-staff Monday to honor Mitch Koski, who died during the flooding at Saxon Harbor on Monday night. “I, Scott Walker, Governor of the state of Wisconsin ... do herby order that the flag of the United States and the flag of the state of Wisconsin may be flown at half-staff ... beginning at sunrise Monday, July 18, 2016, and ending at sunset on that date,” the order reads. Walker’s order refers to Koski’s service as a Montreal...
HURLEY — The Iron County Forestry and Parks Department has reopened most of the county’s all-terrain vehicle trails. According to information on the department’s website, all the trails are reopened, except for Trail 2, from its intersection with Trail 6 in Kimball, through Saxon and Gurney, to the Ashland County border. The trails had been closed following the storms that hit Iron and Gogebic counties Monday night, causing widespread flooding and road closures. The department asks that trail users obey all route closures, as wash-outs conti...
OMA, Wis - While most of the attention following Monday night's storm was on the northern part of Iron County, Jim Saari's farm in Oma also sustained considerable damage. The Iron County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly before midnight Monday reporting a power line down across U.S. 51 at Saari's property on Lyons Road. Saari said he was in bed, having just finished watching television for the night, when he heard a loud noise and a bang. He said he told his wife he thought a tree...
HURLEY - Iron County officials held a brief press conference Wednesday to provide an update on road closures in the county and the aftermath of Monday's storm. According to county officials: - While there are no U.S. 2 closures in Iron County, the closures in Ashland County continue to prevent thru traffic. The official route for travel west on U.S. 2 is from U.S. 2 to southbound U.S. 51, westbound Wisconsin 77, southbound Wisconsin 13, westbound Wisconsin 77, southbound Wisconsin 63 and...
SAXON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker made an unexpected trip to Iron County Tuesday to meet with local officials and get a first-hand picture of the damage caused by Monday night’s storm. “What a huge impact on something so beautiful,” Walker said, following a helicopter tour of the impacted area in the northern part of the state, including Saxon Harbor. “You can see the incredible damage there. Obviously, first and foremost (the concern) is going to be safety.” “It’s good for us to see first hand and then we’ll keep all the different state a...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved an update to the township’s zoning ordinance Monday. The approval comes after the township’s planning commission recommended the adoption of the document’s latest draft in June. Among the changes made by the commission during the revision process were: new language regarding the placement of wind energy in the township, a redefinition of blight to make it appropriate for the township, added penalties for nuisance and blight and changes to bring the ordinance in line with ch...
