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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education is expected to consider a request for a trail reroute at its meeting Monday after the district’s building and grounds committee forwarded the issue to the full board Wednesday. The Gogebic Range Trail Authority is requesting a land-use agreement with the district for part of the district’s property near its bus garage and the Miners Memorial Heritage Park for the development of a looped trail through Ironwood which the club is looking...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER — Rob Coleman will once again be a member of the city council after the group voted 3-1 during its Monday meeting to fill an open seat. Lou Miskovich resigned from the city council last month. “I am honored that the city council appointed me. … Because of my experience on council I will be able to hit the ground running,” Coleman said. “I also want the residents of Bessemer to know that I have their best interests at heart. We all live in the same community and we all want to see it thrive....
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MONTREAL, Wis. — The local non-profit Northern Iron County Engaged Residents is continuing its efforts to develop a community garden in the city of Montreal. Along with its other fundraising efforts, such as pursuing grants and collecting cans from residents, NICER launched a crowdfunding campaign Sunday to help raise funds to start the garden. NICER is using seedmoney.org for its campaign, NICER secretary and garden committee chairwoman Kari Klemme said, explaining its a non-profit focused on s...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Nov. 20 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....
BESSEMER, Mich. – Mary Johanna Tiradani, 98, a longtime resident of Bessemer, passed away Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Mary was born on Aug. 27, 1922, in Ironwood, a daughter of Domenic and Catterina (Bortoli) Dalle Ave. They moved to Lombard, Illinois when she was a child and later to Asiago, Italy. Mary began schooling there until the age of 8. She learned to read and write in Italian and was able to be an interpreter for many people who came to her with letters from Italy. The family left Italy a...
APPLETON, Wis. - Janet Ruth (Mickelson) Peterson, formerly of Ironwood and Watersmeet, Michigan, entered eternal life at age 86 on Oct. 4, 2020, in Appleton. She was the loving mother of Tracy (Robert Krouze) O'Donnell, Frank (Tammy) O'Donnell, Neil P. (Mary) O'Donnell, Patricia (Dan) Cameron, Doreen (Larry Abramovitz) O'Donnell, and Laura O'Donnell; loving grandmother of Nathan, Necole, Matthew, Kaylee, Rob, Danny, Bess, Lawson and Billy; loving great-grandmother to Julia, Jayla, Rosie,...