Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council voted Monday evening to file a letter of intent with the state’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund, which the city expects to provide funding in relation to the required replacement of lead components within the city’s private water lines. The action follows a Jan. 20 vote by the council to accept the terms of the Escanaba office of C2AE, which will handle the private property component of the 2021 Bessemer utility project. The 2021 project, which will be funde...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Seventh graders from Bessemer's A.D. Johnston Middle School recently attended a snowshoeing and winter survival field trip at Wolverine Nordic Trails in Ironwood Township. The field trip was led by Brian Doughty of Michigan Tech as one of MTU's winter field trip offerings. The trip began at the chalet where Doughty presented the students with a scenario where the students were on a plane that crashed in Canada during the winter. In the scenario, all of the people on the...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Road Commission announced Monday that spring weight restrictions will take effect for county roads as of noon Thursday. A 5-ton limit will be enforced on all local county roads, according to the announcement, due to the minimal surface support and susceptibility of frost heave on the local roads — including the gravel roads. On the primary county road system, the 35% reduction in axle loading required by Michigan’s frost laws will be in place. This allows trucks to remain at normal weight on the major routes throu...
Tuesday, March 3 Pickleball, 9:30 a.m.-noon, All Saints Academy, Ironwood, use south entrance. 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. Wakefield Seniors, noon, Wakefield Senior Center. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Wakefield Township...
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Marlene A. Baron, 81, passed away peacefully Feb. 28, 2020, in Green Bay. Marlene was born on Dec. 31, 1938, in Gile, to Harry and Liza (Giacomino) Smith. She graduated from Hurley High School in 1956. In 1959, she graduated from the College of St. Scholastica with her nursing degree and later a master's degree at University of Wisconsin-Superior. In 1959, she married Leon Baron and spent the next 25 years living in Ashland. She worked as an OB nurse for St. Joseph Hospital...
BERLIN, Wis. - Walter G. Jubeck, 90, of Wild Rose, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at ThedaCare Medical Center in Berlin. He was born in Chicago, on April 23, 1929, to Thomas and Louise (Pospeck) Jubeck. He was a proud World war II U.S. Army veteran and a lifetime member of the VFW. Walter was united in marriage to Della Gabrielson and together they owned and operated Wally & Del's Wautoma Hotel. Wally also owned the Ironwood Motel. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and traveling to Texas and...
