Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Thursday, March 26 Downtown Ironwood Development Authority, 8 a.m., Memorial Building, Ironwood. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Grief Support Group, 2 p.m., all welcome, The Inn Bed and Breakfast, Montreal, Wis. 906-663-0308. Iron County Democrats, 4 p.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11;...
Vivian M. Lantta passed away peacefully on March 12, 2015, at the age of 92, with her son, Jim, at her side. Vivian was born on October 22, 1922, in Ramsay, Mich., the daughter of the late John and Hilma (Hill) Tapanila. Vivian's family moved from Ramsay to Saxon, Wis., in 1928, when she was six. On the first day at school, she only spoke Finnish but quickly learned English in first grade. When she was 14 years old, her mother died and she had to take care of her three sisters, Bertha, Vi,...
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho - Donald John Best, age 75, of Mountain Home, Idaho, passed away on Sunday, March 22, 2015, at a Mountain Home care center. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 27, 2015, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel and burial with military honors to follow at Mountain View Cemetery, in Mountain Home, Idaho. Don was born June 29, 1939, in Wakefield, Mich., the son of John Charles and Adele Lillian Best. While serving with the U.S. Air Force, Don was...
HOUGHTON, Mich. — Jeanne L. Smith Bonen, of Houghton, formerly Jeanne Holemo, of Ironwood, passed away on March 21, 2015, in Houghton, at the age of 92. She was born in Ironwood on June 17, 1922, the daughter of the late Harry and Saima (Hendrickson) Holemo. Jeanne is survived by her husband, Roy Bonen; her beloved son, Steven Smith (Jennifer); grandchildren, Bradley, Keith, Corey and Heidi; six great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; sister, Polly (Carl) Baron; and sister-in-law, Margaret “Peggy” Holemo. Several nieces and nephe...
IRONWOOD - Nicholas Steinmetz, the elementary school principal for the Ironwood Area School District, is looking to raise funds to purchase new playground equipment for the district's third through sixth graders. "With all of our budgets the way they are, we don't really have the money in the budget to get a new playground structure. But it is something that we really need so we are going to get creative and try and fundraise for it," Steinmetz said. Through a combination of fundraisers and dona...
BESSEMER — Tom Novascone’s job as equalization director for Gogebic County was extended by four years Wednesday. The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners approved a new four-year contract for Novascone. Novascone will be paid $42,000 annually for the period from April 1 through March 31, 2019. The salary is the same as for the past year. He will work three days a week in Gogebic County. Novascone met with the county personnel and negotiations committee on March 11 and said he’d like the four-year contract, which was approved on a 7-0 vote...
HURLEY — With the future of the Iron County Mining Impact Committee uncertain following the Feb. 27 announcement by Gogebic Taconite that it was closing the company’s Hurley office, committee Chairwoman Leslie Kolesar thanked the committee for their work. “Right now, with no mine project moving forward, I don’t know when this committee is going to meet again. Maybe it will be six months, maybe it will be a year, maybe it won’t be happening again. So I would like to let everyone know that if this committee doesn’t meet again, it has been my ple...
IRONWOOD - A longtime Ironwood high school ski coach whose tenure lasted five decades tops the 2015 induction class of several individuals and a team voted on by members of the Ironwood Area Sports Hall of Fame Foundation at a recent meeting. Along with coach Theron Peterson and 1943 football team, inductees are: John Serbin, the finest offensive performer on Bob Black's 1928 football team; Shawn McMullin, an all-around male athlete who garnered 11 letters in the early 1990s; Pete Kopecko, the...