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Articles from the March 4, 2016 edition


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  • Wakefield offers Womack city manager position

    Mar 4, 2016

    By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield City Council agreed Thursday afternoon to make Michael Womack an offer to be city manager and to negotiate a contract. Womack was interviewed on Feb. 19. The council interviewed all seven potential candidates for the city manager position: Richard Brackney, Perry Franzoi, Eva Smith-Fergason, Mary Servia, Thomas Budgick, Jason Laumann and Womack. At Thursday's special meeting the council unanimously offered Womack the job....

  • Bessemer students explore career opportunities

    Mar 4, 2016

    By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - Bessemer area middle-high school students explored possible job opportunities in the area during Career Day Thursday. To fill the A.D. Johnston High School gymnasium, Brian Haanpaa, of Michigan Works, invited local businesses to participate. Haanpaa said more than 10 businesses were present for Career Day. Students could explore careers in health care, cosmetology, machinery, counseling, forestry, communications, hospitality, restaurant...

  • Hazmat team responds to Erwin mercury spill

    Mar 4, 2016

    ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Members of the Upper Peninsula Regional Hazardous Materials Team responded to a reported mercury spill in Erwin Township Wednesday. Shortly before 3:30 p.m., a township resident was cleaning a basement when a glass bottle of mercury was knocked over, breaking it and spilling the mercury, according to a release from the Ironwood Public Safety Department. The homeowner evacuated the house and called 911. The responding hazardous material team recovered approximately three ounces of mercury, along with several contaminated i...

  • Community Calendar

    Mar 4, 2016

    Friday, March 4 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. 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 Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Friday Night Fight, 7:30 p.m., ski registration 4-7 p.m., Mt. Zion, Ironwood.... Full story

  • Evelyn Lucille Cole Anderson

    Mar 4, 2016

    CALUMET, Mich. — Evelyn Lucille Cole Anderson, 101, of Ontonagon, formerly of Maple Plain, Minn., passed away peacefully on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Gardenview Memory Care in Calumet. Evelyn Anderson was born in Long Lake, Minn., on Feb. 11, 1915. She graduated from Long Lake High School and worked as a telephone operator for several years before marrying Robert Don Anderson. They resided all their married life in Maple Plain, where she was a homemaker, devoted wife, and mother of two sons. Evelyn loved being outdoors, whether at work or p... Full story