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Articles from the January 10, 2014 edition


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  • Highland Copper raises $25 million as purchase of White Pine mine nears

    Ralph Ansami|Jan 10, 2014

    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...

  • Mojakka soup preparation under way for Sisu racers

    Cortney Ofstad|Jan 10, 2014

    IRONWOOD - Cold days and hot soup go together like hands and mittens, and for the fifth annual Sisu Ski Fest Saturday, both soup and mittens will be needed. To keep with the Finnish trend through the event, volunteers prepare a traditional meal for after the race at the Ironwood Memorial Building, including pasties and mojakka. Mojakka is soup served in Finnish-American households in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan that includes beef or fish and potatoes. When made with fish, the soup is...

  • Burke to report raising nearly $1.8 million

    Jan 10, 2014

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democrat Mary Burke tapped $400,000 of her own money on the way toward raising nearly $1.8 million in the opening months of her effort to knock off Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Burke's campaign said Thursday. The fundraising totals are nearly identical to what Walker brought in during the last six months of 2009 before the 2010 election, but Burke raised it in less than three months. However, Walker doesn't have the personal wealth of Burke, a former Trek Bicycle Corp....

  • Beautiful sunrise welcomes warmer temperatures

    Jan 10, 2014

  • Nancy Augusta (Howlett) Murdock

    Jan 10, 2014

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Nancy Augusta (Howlett) Murdock, of Ironwood, passed away peacefully Jan. 7, 2014, at 81 years old. She was born in Winchendon, Mass., Jan. 14, 1932, to Foster and Edna Howlett. She was the oldest of seven children, with five brothers and a sister. After attending Athol High School for two years, she transferred to Gardner High and received her diploma. She married the love of her life, Robert "Bob" Murdock, Sept. 6, 1950, and had five children, three boys and two girls. They...

  • U.P. scoring record ready to move from E-TC to Crystal Falls

    Jason Juno|Jan 10, 2014

    At least for a few more hours, Allison (Bailey) Bottoms, a 1997 Ewen-Trout Creek graduate, holds the Upper Peninsula career scoring record. At 2,131 points, Bottoms, a 6-1 center, is one of just three U.P. girls basketball players to have scored more than 2,000 points. Crystal Falls Forest Park's Lexi Gussert will likely pass her tonight - she needs 13 - in the Trojans' home game against Bark River-Harris. She stands at 2,119 points. Gussert, a Michigan State recruit, is a 6-0 do-it-all player f...