Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield city council denied a request to deed city property near Olson Avenue to Martha Vestich. The council discussed gaining right-of-way to the remainder of the city property from adjacent land owners, if Vestich's request was approved. It heard the city's application for the Stormwater, Asset Management and Wastewater grant was not approved. "Applications were approved through a random computer lottery rather than being scored on applications meeting certain criteria,"...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer Area School District Board of Education held a contentious meeting Monday, debating the proposed bond issue with one board member. Bill McDonald, an outspoken opponent of the proposed bond referendum, was asked numerous questions by other board members about the consolidation committee he is a part of. The committee proposes to ask for the consolidation of Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco School districts on the ballot in August. Bessemer superintendent Dave Radovich...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - It was the unwelcome, anguishing news that families of the missing had dreaded, and when they heard it from Malaysia's prime minister Monday night there were shrieks and intense heartbreak: The missing Malaysian Airlines flight whose fate was a mystery that consumed the world had crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean. The news, based on fresh evidence gleaned from an unprecedented analysis of satellite data, meant it was all but impossible that any of...
To the Editor: I believe Bessemer Area Schools Superintendent Dave Radovich may have misled the voters in his letter to the editor published March 21. Bessemer parents would not cede total control of their schools in consolidation. Bessemer parents would still have a voice and a vote in a consolidated district. As a parent of two Bessemer School District students, I would have no problem with either or both my children traveling to another campus. There is money to be saved or repurposed in a consolidated district. Currently there are two...
