Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER - Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park may soon have a facelift. City Manager Charly Loper announced during the monthly Recreation Committee meeting that she applied for a $100,000 grant from Kubota Tractor Corporation, of Grapevine, Texas, to update the park. According to Loper the company is offering five $100,000 grants and one of the recipients will be given an additional $100,000. She said the company is also offering some "smaller" things as...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — The Bessemer Library has partnered with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to provide free COVID-19 at home test kits to the community. Library director Melissa Lupino said MDHHS started a pilot program for the test kits in lower Michigan at a handful of libraries. “It must have gone well, because they opened it up for other libraries to volunteer to be one of these sights, and we threw our hat in and we were chosen to be one of the distribution sights,” she said. The l...
NEGAUNEE, Mich. - Swen Marvin Nurkala, 88, longtime Negaunee resident, passed away peacefully Saturday morning, April 2, 2022, at U.P. Health System Marquette under the loving care of U.P. Home Health and Hospice. Swen was born Feb. 3, 1934, at home in Watton, to Victor and Lempi (Jarvimaki) Nurkala, attended elementary school in Watton and graduated from L'Anse High School. He continued his education at Suomi College and received a two-year business degree before being drafted into the U.S. Arm...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, April 9 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. 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. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community C...
