Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Friday, March 27 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 Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Ironwood Carnegie Library Board of Trustees, 1 p.m., library. 906-932-0203. Saturday, March 28... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Isabelle E. Cabianca Haapoja, 91, of Yale Location, Bessemer, died in Ironwood on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Isabelle was born on Dec. 16, 1923, in Bessemer, daughter of Calisto and Theresa (Grasso) Cabianca. Isabelle attended the Barber School, Washington Elementary School and was valedictorian of the A.D. Johnson High School Class of 1941. Isabelle worked at the Grand View Hospital in the business department during her high school years. After high school, Isabelle worked at... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. - John H. Suutala, 85, of Ironwood Township, passed away peacefully surrounded by family at home on Friday, March 13, 2015, after a lengthy illness of COPD and chronic pneumonia. John was born Nov. 4, 1929, in Ironwood, to the late Johannes and Lydia (Teerimaki) Suutala. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force, in which three of these he was stationed near Leicester, England, where he met his beautiful bride of 61 years, Grace "Toni" Cheney. On returning home to Ironwood... Full story
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Russell J. Mason, 66, of Russellville, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Russellville. The son of John and Eva Monette Mason, he was born Jan. 23, 1949, in Bruce Crossing, Mich. He graduated from Ewen High School in Ewen, Mich., and then earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Michigan State University in Kalamazoo, Mich. Russell was a mechanical engineer with ANO. He enjoyed fishing and gardening. He was preceded in death by his parents; and sister, Dorothy Corbin. Sur...
Schools throughout Gogebic County will be safer in the upcoming months after they are equipped with special classroom door locks as part of a Upper Peninsula-wide grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The grant money, which is directed through the Michigan State Police, will install "Nightlock Lockdown Door Barricades for Extreme Emergencies" on the interior of classroom doors that are designed to prevent entry to the room in case of an emergency, such as a school shooting. According... Full story
HOUGHTON - Students from Ironwood, Watersmeet and Ewen-Trout Creek traveled to the Michigan Tech campus Monday to compete in the Western Upper Peninsula Science Fair. The students competed based on a rubric centered on three main categories - the written report, overall project and the display board and student interview - event organizer Loret Roberts told the Daily Globe before the fair. Projects received a gold, silver, bronze or honorable mention rating depending on the percentage of points... Full story
ONTONAGON - Ryon Hokens, Director of Rehabilitation at Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital, said the Evole Chair, purchased by the Aspirus Ontonagon Foundation, has helped many patients at the hospital. The chair was purchased from proceeds of the annual Christmas show for the foundation. Jim Jessup, president of the foundation, presented a check for $3,799 to Deanna Wilson, vice-president of patient services at the hospital. Hokens said some patients are unable to stand and the chair is a "restorative"... Full story
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. - With snow falling back home Thursday, Ironwood, Wakefield-Marenisco and Watersmeet went inside to Northland Pines to start their track-and-field season. Class A Marquette dominated both the boys and girls meets. Ironwood was sixth in the girls with W-M seventh and Watersmeet eight. The Ironwood boys were fifth, W-M seventh and the Nimrods eight. The Red Devils' Jared Joki edged Northland Pines' Kody Radtke by a quarter of a second to take the 800-meter run, the only... Full story
