Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI ransami@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission on Monday will consider a 2017 request from GogebicRange.net to install antennas for wireless service on the top of Mt. Zion. Commissioners will review a proposed five-year antenna installation agreement that would begin on May 1. The antennas would be located near the city's water tank on the top of existing light poles. If the company has more than 200 subscribers, it would pay $300 a month. The rate would be $100 a month for 50 or fewer subscribers and $200 fo...
By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY - April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Iron County is holding a variety of events throughout the month to raise awareness about how to recognize signs of possible abuse. Members of the Iron County Sheriff's Department were in Mercer Thursday, serving root beer floats to the students. Teresa Way, a children's social worker with the Iron County Human Services Department, said the event was a way for the students to meet the members of...
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Oneida County, in the Crescent Township. As required by law, the DNR said finding will renew Oneida County's existing baiting and feeding ban for another three years. Additionally, the positive test will renew the two-year baiting and feeding ban in Langlade County. The CWD-positive one-year-old doe was harvested on a disease surveillance permit issued within a 10-mile radius of the recent Lincoln County positiv...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, April 21 Earth Day Fair, 10 a.m. to noon, Mercer Public Library. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, April 22 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Wesley U... Full story
EWEN, Mich. — Jeannette Staff, 86, of Ewen, passed away at her home on April 18, 2018. She was born on July 20, 1931, in Ewen, to the late Joseph and Alma (Jentz) Spargo. She married John “Jack” Staff on June 2, 1951. He preceded her in death. Surviving her are her two sons, Daniel (Sue) Staff and John (Carla) Staff; two daughters, Sandy Tulppo and Nancy (Mark) Voigt; nine grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. Jeannette was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Spargo; mother, Alma (Jentz) Spargo; brother, Francis Spargo; husband, Jack... Full story
IRONWOOD — Last year’s Kiwanis Border Bash all-star basketball game wasn’t going to be easy to top, not with members of the three-time state champion North Central boys team filling the Lindquist Center gym and leading Northern Michigan to a victory. “That’s what everybody was telling me, but I think we got close” for this year’s games, event director Russ Maki said. “We should pack that gym again.” Ewen-Trout Creek standout Jake Witt headlines a talented group that pits many of the top boys and girls basketball players in the Upper Peninsu...
