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Articles from the February 11, 2021 edition


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  • Hurley to clarify overtime policy

    Feb 11, 2021

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council will hold a workshop to clarify an overtime rule in the employee handbook, according to business at the regular meeting on Tuesday. Mayor Jay Aijala said he wanted the matter added to the agenda because the misunderstanding doesn’t seem to have an obvious solution. Employees of the city Department of Public Works were called in to clear snow for five hours during late hours on Dec. 30. The department claims the hours are overtime while the city clerk said the wor...

  • Boutique official meets with airport board

    Feb 11, 2021

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - An official with Boutique Air Inc., said that recent lapses with on-time arrivals and departures are being addressed as a scheduling issue and that service should soon reflect the passenger airline's on-time ratings nationwide. Tom Warren, the vice president of business development from Boutique Air, Inc., a former Boutique pilot and instructor, flew in from Colorado to address concerns of the Gogebic-Iron County Airport Board...

  • Chamber starts planning for Festival Ironwood

    Feb 11, 2021

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Chamber of Commerce is starting plans for the 2021 Festival Ironwood that is scheduled for July 14-17. The chamber board’s Festival Ironwood Organizing Committee agreed to start planning at its Feb. 8 meeting. The event may be modified or potentially canceled depending on COVID-19 restrictions guidelines or orders from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and the state of Michigan in place at that time. “We are just being cautiously optimistic to get the whole...

  • Eunice Marie (Dalbeck) Backlund   

    Feb 11, 2021

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Eunice Marie (Dalbeck) Backlund, 93, of Wakefield, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Eunice was born on Nov. 13, 1927, the eldest child of Lloyd and Linnie Dalbeck, in a rustic logging camp cabin in Crystal Falls. Her younger siblings were Lorraine and Russell (both died of influenza in childhood), Duane (Christine) Dalbeck, Stratford, Wisconsin, Mary Ellen (Gerald) Laine, Wausau, Wisconsin, and Lloyd (Cathy) Dalbeck, Rimrock, Arizona. She attended Wakefield High School and g...

  • Community Calendar

    Feb 11, 2021

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Feb. 10 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Mentoring of Moms, 9-10:30 a.m., Range Community Bible Church, Hurley. 715-561-4355. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer,...