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IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community College officials will interview four candidates to be the next college president this coming week. Four candidates on four consecutives days — Tuesday through Friday — will each meet with the public in a series of open forums, have dinner with the college Board of Trustees and then interview with the board. All these events will take place in Lindquist Student Center on the Ironwood campus. While the events are all open to the public, dinner will only be served to the candidates, board members and their guest...
MERCER, Wis. - The Mercer Public Library and Mercer Historical Society joined together to host their second "Mercer Memory" event on Friday. Life-long Mercer resident Peg Brunner shared stories of her life from growing up there. From catching her first "legal Musky" at age 15 to throwing rocks off a bridge killing redhorse fish which had invaded her favorite fishing spot, Brunner was determined to show her brothers she could do anything they could do. "I was really quite the tomboy," Brunner...
WAKEFIELD — Regional Hospice will host its 13th annual Polar Plunge on Saturday, March 9, in Sunday Lake at Wakefield. Organizers are asking members of the public — those willing to jump — to solicit pledges in support of their leap. The pre-registration deadline is Feb. 20 to receive a T-shirt, but registration remains open until the day of the Plunge. Plunge-day registration opens at 10:30 a.m. at the Wakefield VFW and ends at 11. The Plunge into Sunday Lake will begin at noon. A warm-up social will follow at the VFW. Food will be serve...
SAXON, Wis. - James Wayne "Jim" Ansami, 62, of Saxon, died peacefully at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, about two weeks after being diagnosed with brain cancer. The son of Alice (Peterson) and Waino Ansami, he was born Feb. 20, 1956, in Ashland. He retired in 2016 as the city of Ironwood's water plant operator at the pumphouse in Ironwood Township. Throughout the years, he followed in his father's occupation as a self-employed logger and enjoyed "grinding gears" for...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Feb. 2 Men’s Breakfast, 8 a.m., Havenwood Baptist Church, 501 Copper Street, Hurley. Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Feb. 3...