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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Michigan Department of Community Health won't proceed with Upper Peninsula regionalization health depa...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday agreed to call for bids on a new roof on the annex to the courthouse. The building and grounds committee recommended seeking bids. The bid opening will be on March 23, according to Tom Laabs, of Ironwood, chair of the committee. Laabs said it could be around a $100,000 project, with funding possibly to come from the delinquent tax fund. He said the project would extend from May to around June 15, with the old roof being torn off and replaced. In other business Wednesday, the c...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — There have been eight cases of head lice in the past few weeks in the Hurley School District. Zona Wick, of the Iron County Health Department, said precautions are being taken to hold down the number of students contacting lice at the K-12 school. She said the cases have been occurring in the lower elementary students, from kindergarten through third grade. “The smaller children like to touch and hug each other and it's commonly found in the lower grades because they have so much direct contac...
FIREFIGHTERS WATCH as a chimney fire gets put out in a home on Rock Road in Ironwood on Wednesday night. The Ironwood Fire Department was called to the fire just before 8 p.m. The fire was put out very quickly, as fire trucks left the scene by 8:30 p.m....
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP resident Paul Kleimola clears the snow off his roof for the third time this winter....