Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Powerball drawing was estimated to have a winning purse around 440 million at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. A crowd moved through Stempihars in Bessemer between 4:30 and 5 p.m., where about 30 tickets were sold. Between 5 and 5:20 p.m., only 3-4 customers bought Powerball tickets, although one customer did buy three scratch tickets. Cigarettes appeared to be the hot ticket for the after five crowd. Deb Fergus, paying for fuel for the Gogebic...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance notes in a new report the state’s relatively high property taxes are mostly because there are so many fingers in the pie. Wisconsin has more units of government dipping into the property tax pie than many other states. Wisconsin’s property tax bills finance K-12 schools, municipalities, counties and technical colleges. A state tax was also on the previous tax bill, but that small fee has been eliminated this year. It was only around $6 on a total tax bill of $2,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While a plea agreement may still be reached, a trial date has been set in the case against former Ironwood Township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso. Unless a deal happens; jury selection is scheduled to take place April 30, with the trial beginning May 1. Olson-DeRosso is facing ten felonies — five counts of forgery, one count of embezzlement by a public official, refusing to turn over records to a successor, removal and destruction of public records, using public money for her own use and...
Thursday, Jan. 4 Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Open Community Dinner, 5-6 p.m., Wakefield Methodist Church, Putnam Ave., Wakefield, 906-667-0230. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18; Lighthouse Faith Center, Ironwood. Knights of Columbus...
DULUTH, Minn. - Jason "JJ" Lamerand, 45, of Iron Belt, Wis., passed away on Dec. 28, 2017, in Duluth, Minn. He was born July 10, 1972, in Atlanta, Ga., the son of Willard and Deanna Lamerand. JJ will forever be remembered as our greatest gift and light of our lives. A forever child that brought smiles and laughs to all who knew him. We will not be the same without our precious boy. JJ could always be found carrying a Hank tape, deck of cards, and one of his many teddy bears. He loved his family...