Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Voters across Iron County and the state of Wisconsin will head to the polls on Tuesday for the general spring election. Locally, voters will vote on municipality leaders, with most of the contested races taking place in Mercer. Incumbent Jim Kichak will face-off against Opal Roberts for town chairman. Roberts is currently the town clerk, but is not seeking re-election for that seat. Christan Brandt is running unopposed for the clerk position and two people are vying for the Brandt’s current position as treasurer. Sue Schenk and Lin Miller a...
MERCER, Wis. — More than 100 kids turned out for the annual Mercer Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at the Mercer School. According to club members, the event has been taking place for over 20 years, starting off with real hard boiled eggs before switching to plastic. Different age divisions searched in different parts of the school, and after gathering as many eggs as possible, the kids dined on hot dogs, hot chocolate and their candy. “The school has been great in letting us have thi...
BESSEMER — Drivers from all over the Midwest traveled to Bessemer over the weekend to participate in the first ever Snowmobile Drag Race and Hill Climb on Saturday and Sunday at Big Powderhorn Mountain. According to Bruce Noren, general manager at Powderhorn, the weather was key in making the event successful. “We had really great weather today (Sunday),” Noren said. “So that helped.” The event is one of many snowmobile-themed events in the area, and according to Noren, each event is great for...
To the Editor: A March 25 letter in the Daily Globe entitled “Keep protecting traditional marriage” has caused me to examine my thinking on whether or not I should continue buying and reading the Daily Globe. That your newspaper could publish a letter that shows such complete disregard for the views of many millions of people whose beliefs do not coincide with the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-tolerant, indeed anti-Christian views of the letter boggles the mind. Further, that your newspaper by publishing that letter should provide, rightly or... Full story