Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Fans of the 1970s supergroup ABBA were treated to the timeless, uplifting music, dancing and colorful costumes of the real thing as the "ABBA Mania" tour made a stop at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Thursday. The ABBA performers included Amy Edwards as Anni-Frid Lyngstad; Kirbi Long as Agnetha Faltskog; James Allen as Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Jeff Pike as Benny Andersson. The four have been part of several tours over seven years with the 20...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved the creation of an Upper Peninsula Certified Nurse Aide Academy (UP CNA). The decision will provide a full-time trainer for the program focusing on the Houghton campus, said Glen Ackerman-Behr, director of workforce development at GCC. There are opportunities for CNA training in Ironwood but there is more demand in the Houghton County area, he said. In Gogebic County the CNA training is offered at GCC, through the G...
MERCER, Wis. - Luis Segura-Martel was named the winner of the annual Mercer School Spelling Bee on Tuesday, according to an announcement. Segura-Martel and fellow seventh-graders, Laken Walker, second alternate, and Adrienne Konneker, third alternate, will travel to Ashland on Feb. 5 to participate in the CESA No. 12 Regional Spelling Bee, according to Sheri Kopka, interim school district administrator....
Friday, Jan. 31 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, Feb. 1 Union...
SAN DIEGO - Rudolph Eugene Pakonen, 85, a longtime resident of Valley Center, California, passed away peacefully in his sleep early morning Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. Rudy was born Jan. 20, 1934, in Ironwood, Michigan, son of the late Toivo Arthur Pakonen and Alma Haaro Pakonen. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1953. Rudy married his first wife, Dorothy Salonen Pakonen, in 1958. Rudy was very active in local Republican politics throughout the 1970s and was president of the Finnish...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Max was the most unique, philosophical, deep thinking and sensitive being. We are eternally grateful that he chose us to have the honor of knowing his true self and loving him. He was brilliant and kind and had an immeasurable depth in his spirit. When he loved, he loved absolutely. He could be so serious or crack us up laughing with his sense of humor that was his and his alone. He loved his dogs and best buddies Ariah and Steele completely. He left a few of us down here on...