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Articles from the April 9, 2016 edition


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  • Iron County Deer Advisory Council to meet on 2016 season

    Apr 9, 2016

    MERCER, Wis. — the Iron County Deer Advisory Council is meeting April 18 to provide the public a final opportunity to comment on the council’s recommendation of not allowing any antlerless deer to be killed in Iron County during the 2016 hunting season. The council will hold its final spring meeting at 7 p.m. at the Mercer Community Center, according to a release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where it will receive input on its recommendations regarding antlerless deer harvest quotas, permit levels and season structure rec...

  • 2 Ontonagon students scale school's climbing wall

    Apr 9, 2016

    ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Area Schools seventh grade students were given an opportunity to try their skills on the school's gym climbing wall last week. Former Ontonagon teacher Jim Waters volunteered his time to teach the kids how to don the safety harness and how to communicate with the person holding their safety line. "Communication between the climber and the person minding the belay line is a critical part of the chain of events that keeps the climber safe," said Ontonagon teacher Ken...

  • Snow in April

    Apr 9, 2016

  • Community Calendar

    Apr 9, 2016

    Saturday, April 9 Friends of the Ironwood Carnegie Library, 9:30 a.m., library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Sunday, April 10 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Monday, April 11 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. National Finnish American F...

  • Eugene 'Elky' Syrjala Sr.

    Apr 9, 2016

    PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Eugene J. Syrjala Sr., 92, passed away at home in Port Richey on March 2, 2016. He was born in Wakefield, Mich. He was the remaining son of the late Isaac and Hilda Syrjala family. A long time resident of Ramsay, Mich., Eugene attended the Ramsay School and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1941. He served in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged in 1946. He married the former Sylvia Mark, also of Ramsay, at the parsonage of First Lutheran Church in Wakefield, Mich., with the late Rev. Samuel Autere o...