Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM STANKARD tstatankard@yourdaily globe.com BESSEMER - To honor area residents, organizations and businesses, the Bessemer and Ironwood chambers collaborated to host an year-end banquet at the Bessemer Veterans of Foreign Wars on Wednesday. Kathy Whitburn, Bessemer Chamber of Commerce president, said both chambers are thrilled to be able to honor "really great individuals and groups." For giving back to her community, Kathryn Re was honored as the Bessemer chamber's Volunteer of the Year. Do...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Officials are urging Iron County residents to dial 911 in emergencies as the county launches its enhanced 911 system on Jan. 27. The enhanced 911 system is a cloud-based storage system and tie 911 calls to a master street addressing system that will provide a map of a caller's location to help responders reach destinations faster, according to Iron County 911 Coordinator Stacy Ofstad. "The main benefit is that it's going to be a much...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Unlike recent years, the Hurley School District is not facing drastic cuts to balance its 2016-’17 budget. District administrator Chris Patritto told the school board on Monday that although a “very, very preliminary” estimated budget is in the planning stages, his “rough guess” is that the initial deficit the school board will face will be around $75,000. He estimated revenues for the 2016-’17 budget at around $7.1 million, with expenditures in the neighborhood of $7.2 million. Patritto said...
Thursday, Jan. 21 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, mothers, infants, children, 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 County Veterans Service Officer,...
GLIDDEN, Wis. - Beverly Gail Swanson, 76, of Glidden, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born May 18, 1939, in Ewen, Mich., the daughter of Hubert D. and Martha S. (Korhonen) Anderson. Beverly graduated from Ewen High School. She worked at the Ewen Post Office and on June 6, 1959, she was united in marriage to Harry C. Swanson in Ewen. She then worked as an aide at Trinity Hospital for more than five years, after which she...
