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Articles from the January 18, 2018 edition


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  • Accident used to teach students in Hurley personal finance class

    Jan 18, 2018

    By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — After Hurley High School teacher Aaron Bender’s vehicle slid off icy U.S. 2 in Saxon early in the winter and plunged down an embankment near a bridge, he is using the experience in his personal finance class. Bender told the Hurley School Board Monday students are learning how automobile insurance works following the scary personal injury accident that also involved his daughter. Bender said it’s the fifth year that personal finance is being taught in the Hurley K-12 School and that met with...

  • Holiday robbery defendant sentenced to prison

    Jan 18, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The man found guilty of attempting to rob the Ironwood Holiday gas station was sentenced to prison Tuesday in Gogebic County Circuit Court. Chadd Mathias Andert, 36, was sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon. He received a jail credit of 383 days for time served prior to his sentence. A jury found Andert guilty of the charge Nov. 7. It was one of several options the jury had to pick from, but they could only find him guilty of a single char...

  • Stevens Point man sentenced to time served in Gogebic burglary case

    Jan 18, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While he is still facing charges in Wisconsin, a Stevens Point, Wis., man was sentenced for burglary charges in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Daniel Allan Erickson, 29, was sentenced to the 254 days in jail he had already served for possession of a burglary tool. When he pleaded guilty to the charge in December, he told Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope he had a lock pick in his pocket when he was arrested in Ironwood Jan. 17, 2017. He pleaded guilty to the charge as p...

  • SUNDOWN

    Jan 18, 2018

  • ABR

    Jan 18, 2018

  • Community calendar

    Jan 18, 2018

    Thursday, Jan. 18 Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, 9:45-10 a.m. EST, Lake Gogebic Senior Center, Bergland; 10:20-10:35 a.m. EST, Porcupine Mountain Senior Center, White Pine; 11-11:45 a.m. EST, Holy Family Catholic Church parking lot, Ontonagon; 1:15-1:45 p.m. EST, Resource Center, Mass City; 2:15-2:45 p.m. EST, Stannard Township Ballpark, Bruce Crossing; 2:30-2:45 p.m., Watersmeet Town Hall parking lot, Watersmeet. 906-884-2106. Gogebic...