Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Something was amiss from the get go. The council chamber was almost full fifteen minutes before the meeting was scheduled to start. By the time the meeting started every chair was full and people were taking seats and standing in the hallway outside council chambers. Most city council meetings draw about six people. Monday nights city council meeting in Bessemer had no less than 30 people and likely more. To the Daily Globe, seated in the...
WAKEFIELD - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources issued a use permit to Orvana Resources U.S. Corp., a subsidiary of Highland Copper, to conduct exploratory drilling. The drilling is on a one-mile-square piece of property situated along the westernmost edge of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Gogebic County. The drilling began Sunday and is scheduled to continue into early March, depending on weather conditions. "This drilling project will affect a very small portion of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — Wakefield Township residents will see a new truck collecting their garbage this spring, as the township recently switched collection services to the Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority. The change will take effect April 1, after the township board awarded the contract to the authority’s low bid. According to Wakefield Township Supervisor John Cox, the authority is charging the township a monthly fee of $14.35 per household. The township’s previous collector, Waste...
Tuesday, Feb. 7 Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. New members welcome. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Disabled American Veterans, 6 p.m., Ironwood American Legion. Life Support Group, 6:30 p.m., Woodland Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the...
HURLEY, Wis. - Rosemary Anderson, 91, lifelong Saxon resident, died peacefully Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1, 2017, at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley. The former Rosemary Lamerand was born April 11, 1925, in Saxon, daughter of the late Edward and Anna (Fafford) Lamerand, and graduated from Saxon High School in 1942. Following graduation, she was employed in factory work in Milwaukee for several years. She was united in marriage to Rodman E. Anderson on April 15, 1944, at...
MARENISCO, Mich. - Mary Ann Walin, 93, a long-time resident of Marenisco, passed away Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, 2017. Mary Ann was born on Dec. 5, 1923, in Rapid River, the daughter of Kenneth and Kathleen (Cavil) Scott. She attended Rapid River schools and graduated in 1941. Mary Ann received her teaching certificate from Menominee County Normal in 1942. She started teaching in a one-room school house on the Garden Peninsula for two years. Mary Ann returned to school and received a Bachelor of...
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Linda Ann Marchant, 60, of Hurley, passed away on Thursday, February 2, 2017 in Superior. She was born on Oct. 21, 1956, to Leo and Elizabeth (Bott) Merchant. She is survived by her sisters, Diana Haglund of Duluth, Minn., Bonnie Udd of Ironwood, Mich., and Pat Heinzen of Silver Bay, Minn.; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Arlene Kelly, Marlene Gritzmacher and Nancy Ruby; and brother, Robert Marchant. Out of respect for her family wishes, cremation has taken place. There will be n...
