Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY - The Iron County Board of Supervisors' finance committee met on Thursday morning to discuss hiring and snowmobiles in the sheriff's department, replacement of the current health officer and tax-deeded properties. Sheriff's department "I'm short a jailer. As I'm losing road guys here, I have to move someone up. So, it's not like we're hiring someone new," sheriff Tony Furyk said. The department is down a full-time jailer, as a road person recently moved to Mississippi. One jailer has to...
IRONWOOD - Wolverine Nordic Trail system recently added three new snowshoe trails to the already existing Hospital Loop. "Many don't know about the new snowshoe options that are available," said Wolverine board member Dennis Spaete. The Snowflake trail is an easy 2.1-kilometer route, leaving from the warming chalet on Sunset Road in Ironwood Township. Snow Snake Loop is an intermediate trail, leaving from the chalet and follows parts of the mountain bike trails. Snow Summit makes a loop which...
BESSEMER - While the wind and the snow howled outside, the House of Noise lived up to its name inside. Ironwood overcame an 18-6 deficit and went on to carve out a 62-56 win over Bessemer in an exciting Indianhead Conference rivalry match-up on Thursday night. Ironwood coach Pete Lewinski said it was a game that had just about everything. "The fans got their money's worth," Lewinski said. ""It was tight at the end. There were lead changes, it went back and forth and it was a heck of a game to wa...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Victor Eugene Hanson, 86, a lifelong resident of Wakefield, passed away Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, after a brief illness. Victor was born on March 31, 1928, in Wakefield, a son of Hans Victor and Lydia A. (Thompson) Hanson. He attended Wakefield Schools. On June 27, 1959, Victor was united in marriage to Cleo Bell Nelson at Zion Lutheran Church in Newman Grove, Neb. They made their home in Wakefield. Victor was an active member of All Saints Lutheran Church, where he served as...
WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Gustave "Otto" Nurmi, 91, passed away in Wauwatosa on Christmas evening 2014. Born June 6, 1923, in Nestoria, Mich., a small U.P. railway village, to his father, John Nurmi, a railroad worker and mother, Maria, he was the youngest of nine children. After his father's death in 1929, the family moved to Ironwood's Norrie Location, where Otto would continue to live for most of his life. The name "Otto" came from his first grade teacher who couldn't pronounce his middle name. He...
SIDNAW, Mich. — Vivian I. “Sassie” Kennedy passed away quietly in her home in Sidnaw, with her children by her side on Jan. 7, 2015. She was 100 years old and had lived in her home on the banks of Lake 13 for 69 years. Vivian was born March 19, 1914, in Coldwater, to Alfred and Genevieve (Walker) Teachout. Vivian grew up on a farm in rural Coldwater, attended local schools, graduating from Coldwater High School in 1931. She then attended Branch County Normal where she obtained a teaching certificate. Her first teaching assignment was at Kinde...
