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Articles from the January 12, 2018 edition


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  • MI-TRALE works with DNR to repair Ontonagon County trails

    Jan 12, 2018

    ROCKLAND - Motorized and non-motorized trail users will continue to be able to use an old rail grade in Ontonagon County after a failing culvert was replaced. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment partnered to complete the project, which involved replacing a culvert over Davy Creek, off Cemetery Road, on the trail between Rockland and Ontonagon. "The 12-mile Ontonagon to Rockland multi-use designated route is...

  • Gogebic Range Robotics team ineligible for Michigan grant funds

    Jan 12, 2018

    By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY — Michigan leads the nation in FIRST Robotics teams, and $2.5 million in state grants will help even more students benefit from the experiences of working with professionals and being inspired by seeing real-world applications of technology subjects, said Roger Curtis, director of the Michigan Department of Talent and Economic Development. Michigan has invested $12 million helping schools start and strengthen FIRST teams since 2014. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, or...

  • Jazz Lab Band

    Jan 12, 2018

  • County board supports bank's Bessemer project

    Jan 12, 2018

    By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday adopted a resolution in support of the Gogebic Range Bank’s plans to develop the former Body Shop property in the Bessemer Industrial Park into office space. The Gogebic County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority received an application to develop the parcel that is considered “functionally obsolete.” Rudy Grbavcich, chairman of the GCBRA, and Neil Beckman, representing the bank, discussed the plans with the county board on Wednesday. Beckma...

  • Community calendar

    Jan 12, 2018

    Friday, Jan. 12 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, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Survivors of Suicide, 2 p.m., basement of Zion Lutheran Church in Ironwood, 906-932-5718 Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30...

  • Mary Helen Milakovich

    Jan 12, 2018

    HURLEY, Wis. - Mary Helen Milakovich died peacefully on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, at the Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley. The former Mary Helen McMinn, daughter of the late Josephine (Yankosky) and Francis McMinn, was born Aug. 17, 1925, in Bessemer, Mich., and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1943. She married the late Nick Milakovich in Bessemer, with the Rev. Robert Larson of the First Presbyterian Church presiding. Mary was a lifelong...

  • Bertha Lillian Saari

    Jan 12, 2018

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Bertha Lillian Saari, 96, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. Bertha was born April 8, 1921, in Ironwood, to Erick and Fanny (Rajala) Haanpaa, the eldest of 11 children. She married William Saari in 1938. He preceded her in death in 1966. Bertha is survived by her two sons, William, of San Francisco, and Robert (Fleurette), of Crystal Falls; seven grandchildren, Gregory (Dorothy), Darin (Rebecca) and Erik (Miriam) Saari, Cynthia (Eugene) Reinke, Angela (the late Charles) Burd, Randolph (Cynthia) Penna and Kirsten (...