Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Friday, Jan. 11 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Depot Dash, ski race for kids 10 and under, 4 p.m., Depot Park, Ironwood. Sisu Ski Expo, 4-10 p.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon....
HURLEY, Wis. - Donald M. Kangas, 81, lifelong Hurley area resident, passed away in Hurley on Jan. 8, 2019. He was born in South Carey to Matt and Taimi (Rosenberg) Kangas, delivered by a midwife who was his paternal grandmother, Eva. Growing up in South Carey and the family cottage at Island Lake, Don developed his love of the woods while he logged, hunted, fished and trapped. Don attended local schools and graduated from J. E. Murphy High School with the class of 1956. Don and Juliette...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Salary increases for 2019 of $69,597 were approved for non-union employees and elected officials by the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners at a Dec. 21 meeting. The increases for non-union employees, effective Jan. 1, were approved on a motion made by Jim Oliver, of Ironwood, seconded by Dan Siirila, of Ironwood. The vote was 4-1, with Jeff Wasley, of Ironwood, opposed. Absent were Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, and Tom Laabs, of Ironwood. Oliver, Siirila, then board chair George Peterson, o...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Two people were arrested in east central Wisconsin Wednesday in connection with the armed robbery home invasion in Marenisco Township in December. A man, 47, and woman, 41, were arrested in New London Wednesday evening, according to Gogebic County Sheriff Pete Matonich. The owner of the East Shore road residence in the Lake Gogebic area was assaulted and tied up during the early morning hours of Dec. 18 in the home invasion where money and guns were stolen. The property owner was able t...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Even though the county wouldn’t be able to add on to the building, the Iron County Board of Supervisors’ finance committee decided to continue exploring the purchase of the Hurley VFW property Thursday. At the committee’s December meeting, there was a discussion regarding putting a new upper level on the building and making it the home of the Iron County Health Department. Iron County Clerk Mike Saari informed the committee Thursday that plan doesn’t appear viable. Saari said the power...
