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Articles from the January 22, 2021 edition


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  • Fire departments respond to Ironwood blaze

    Jan 22, 2021

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Firefighters from Ironwood and Hurley responded to a structure fire on the 100 block of East Ayer Street in Ironwood Wednesday night across the street from the Ironwood Post Office. Ironwood Public Safety Department officers received a report of a commercial building structure fire at 135 E. Ayer St. at approximately 8 p.m., according to IPSD Director Andrew DiGiorgio, and additional members of the IPSD fire division were paged. "The...

  • Ironwood school board elects new president

    Jan 22, 2021

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The board of education for the Ironwood Area Schools kicked off 2021 with its annual organizational meeting Monday. The meeting allowed the board to approve a number of bylaws for everything from setting the procedure for filling board vacancies to setting January as the date for future organizational meetings. The board also elected its officers, including voting 4-2 to make Clancey Byrne the new board president. “When I joined the board, I said from the beginning I would serve in any...

  • Bessemer applying for grant funding for U.S. 2 project

    Jan 22, 2021

    By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council voted to move forward with applying for $990,000 state grant funds for the U.S. 2 project on Monday. The city will pay C2AE $13,000 to start the process of applying for the grant. If the grant is approved, the council will pay the firm an additional $6,000. C2AE had requested the city to pay the $19,000 up front, but the council felt that withholding part of the payment would give C2AE incentive to secure the grant. “This potentially could be a whole lot of mon...

  • Community Calendar

    Jan 22, 2021

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Jan. 22 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. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org....