Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Friday, Nov. 16 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. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — A Watersmeet resident told the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Tuesday that the passage of the ambulance millage “has left a bad taste in people’s mouths” in the eastern end of the county. At a meeting where an an ambulance authority was appointed by county board chair George Peterson, of Watersmeet, the meeting started with a public appearance by Yvonne Clark, of Watersmeet. A three-year millage that will generate $523,000 the first year was approved by a more than 60 percent vote co...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — Members of the Bessemer City Council met Monday evening for a special informational session on progress made on the Stormwater, Asset Management and Wastewater Program through the state Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ engineers Kelly Heidbrier and Ashley Hendricks provided a summary of the SAW program, made possible by a combined $827,350 in grants for which the city applied in 2013. According to Heidbrier, the state’s intent has been to encourage cities “to track assets better” and pl...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood Township man who had a standoff with police officers last year pleaded guilty to two felonies in Gogebic County Circuit Court last week. Leonard John Hellier, 49, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon — or felonious assault — Nov. 6 as part of a plea agreement. The agreement calls for Hellier’s sentence be limited to probation and the time served since his May 16, 2017, arrest. Hellier was taken into custody after a standoff at his Vanderh...
