Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — Michigan Department of Transportation and city of Ironwood officials Thursday heard passioned pleas for new sidewalks on both sides of U.S. 2 during highway reconstruction in 2014-’15. While there was some criticism of rerouting of traffic through Hurley during the 2014 construction at the public hearing at the Memorial Building, the sidewalk issue was equally as controversial. The DOT plan is to have a sidewalk extending the full two miles on the north side of the highway, but not on...
KINGSFORD — Family and friends were more than excited to welcome their loved ones back from Afghanistan during a welcome home ceremony for the 1432nd Engineer Company on Thursday. Approximately 1,000 people gathered at Kingsford High School to greet more than 90 soldiers from the 10-month deployment. Gogebic County undersheriff Ross Solberg was among those soldiers from the Gogebic Range who returned Thursday. Gogebic County Sheriff Pete Matonich attended the ceremony. Josh and Angela Reed, of Randville, and their two children, Izayah, 6, a...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission took no action Monday on a proposed agency fee agreement requested by the local employees union. Michigan officially became a “freedom-to-work” state on Thursday, meaning employees can choose whether or not to join unions. The Local 1538 union, represented by Robert Murphy, sought to have the city commission Monday adopt an agency fee agreement that would require all newly hired employees to pay the equivalent of union dues. “Michigan American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Duane B. Forte, 74, affectionately known as “Moon” and “Papa,” beloved father, grandfather and best friend, passed away peacefully surrounded by the ones he laughed with, lived for and loved, on March 16, 2013. Duane was born in Wakefield, Mich., in 1938, to Andrew and Ruth Forte. He graduated from Wakefield High School in 1956 and went on to serve our great country in the military. A few years after he returned from the Korean War, he married his sweetheart, Joyce Berwald. In 1963, they packed their Oldsmobile, headed to Las...
IRONWOOD, Mich. — Geraldine M. “Jeri” Erspamer, 87, of Hurley, Wis., died peacefully Thursday, March 21, 2013, at Westgate Nursing, Rehabilitation and Assisted Living Community in Ironwood, with her loving husband by her side. The former Geraldine Bertolini was born Oct. 28, 1925, in Montreal, Wis., daughter of the late Serafino and Rose (Oddino) Bertolini Summers, attended Roosevelt School in Montreal, and graduated from Lincoln High School in Hurley in 1943. She then attended St. Mary’s School...
To the Editor: Do you like when someone tries to trample on your rights and freedoms? If you do not fight for your rights, they will be eroded. This country was founded on such principles. Past generations fought for our freedoms that we enjoy. Let’s make sure that we do not take them for granted. I have worked for the United States Postal Service for 24 years and have seen an increase in all types of mail, especially parcels. We deliver parcels that are shipped via the USPS, and also for DHL, UPS and FedEx. First-class letter volume is c...
To the Editor: Time magazine recently published an article on “The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built,” designed to be invisible at the cost of nearly $400 billion. The F-35 is loaded with sophisticated electronics. The more sophisticated and complicated that our weapons become, the more problems occur. Costs continue to rise with this plane. We already have the F-15, F-16 and F-18, with which no other country can compete. In addition, we have the F-22 that was built for a war that has not yet happened. They sit on runways, untested in war and ne...
MARQUETTE — Ewen-Trout Creek’s Zoey McGeshick and Ontonagon’s Chelsea Truscott were named to the All-U.P. Class D Second Team. While those two players are seniors, all five members of the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team are not — four are juniors and one is a sophomore. The All-U.P. team was determined during Wednesday’s 38th annual girls basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The boys team was also determined Wednesday and will be released in Saturday...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Hurley Midgets baseball team had to travel more than 250 miles — and still go inside — to start its baseball season. They were only scrimmages, against Chequamegon and Phillips, but at least there was baseball at the Metrodome Thursday in Minneapolis. “Despite four feet of snow on the ground, we still managed to get our first baseball games in, so that’s nice,” Hurley manager Aaron Bender said. The Midgets played Phillips first and the teams were tied at 0-0 through thr...
