Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Work to open Aurora Street to traffic in front of last week's fatal fire in downtown Ironwood was halted Thursday morning as the contractor and city officials learned they'd have to wait until state-mandated tests of material samples from the burned buildings come back from a laboratory. The early morning fire of Feb. 21 killed three people and heavily damaged two buildings at 102-104 Aurora St. The 102 address included Chelsi's Corner...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - One-hundred years ago the Spanish Flu shut down much of the Gogebic Range, but not Hurley's booming tavern industry. It was the same year Michigan joined the Prohibition movement, but Wisconsin didn't follow suit until 1920, author Russell Magnaghi told a large audience at the Hurley K-12 School on Thursday evening. He spoke for 45 minutes about how Hurley largely ignored Prohibition and the taverns prospered. Not only did people drink during...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The board of education for the Wakefield-Marenisco School District learned Monday the district’s new website is up and running. “I think I addressed all concerns to date,” said Jason Gustafson, who created the new site and added if any new suggestion occurs, “I can try to make that happen.” Gustafson is a third grade teacher for the K-12 school and will be superintendent in the next school year. The new website, www.wmschools.org, welcomes viewers with an exterior view of the school, as...
Friday, March 2 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Documentary “A Green Fire,” 1 p.m., Mercer Public Library. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Cat...
CARMEL, Calif. - Hilda Helen Stengard, 96, who moved to Carmel in 1984 after retiring, died at her home. Hilda or Helen, she went by either, grew up in Bessemer Township, Mich., the youngest of seven siblings to parents who emigrated from Finland. The family all lived and worked together on the farm. She graduated from Bessemer High School. She then attended nurses school at St. Luke's in Chicago, University of Illinois receiving her bachelor of science degree in nursing and received her master'...
