Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The YooperBeiner Snowshoe Race Saturday at the Wolverine Nordic Trails complex is designed to raise funds and promote area health, while giving people an excuse to get off the couch on a Saturday and hit the wood line. The race has three components, a kids pre-race event with its own subdivided age divisions, a 5K race or walk, and a 10K competitive race with many competitors also attached to teams for an overall time. Race...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - Father Robb Jurkovich rendered a beatific grin as he gazed around at dozens of people enjoying a Sunday spaghetti feed in the basement hall of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Ironwood. "It's the most beautiful thing to see the community come together," he said. "That's what church is all about." The 43rd Annual LaRosa Spaghetti Dinner was a two-day event that began on Saturday evening and ended Sunday evening. According to Jurkovich, past...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP — A gathering of cats is called a clowder and they resist herding, but will be corralled on occasion. The Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort corralled the 2018 Midwest Cat Clowder Saturday, providing an opportunity for rabid snow machine enthusiasts to gather, fellowship and have fun in their snow crawling machines. Matt Van Tuyl, organizer and proud owner of many Tucker Sno-Cats, said the group went on a 12 mile trail ride on Thursday and then on Friday drove cross country to Copper P...
Monday, Feb. 5 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Sports Hall of Fame, 6 p.m., Luther L. Wright K-12 School, room 205. MECCA Ski Club, 6 p.m., MECCA cabin near the treatment facility, Mercer, Wis. Daughters of Isabella, 6 p.m., St. Sebastian Church,...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - ENC William B. Sikonia, USN, Retired, 88, a long-time resident of Erwin Township, passed away Friday morning, Feb. 2, 2018. Bill was born on Aug. 5, 1929, at Grand View Hospital in Bessemer Township, a son of Karl and Mary (Kozens) Sikonia. He attended Norrie School from kindergarten through the third grade. In 1937, his family bought a forty-acre dairy farm and moved to Erwin Township. Bill then attended Erwin Central School and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1...
