Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected]ß IRONWOOD - High school welding students from Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties are competing in the 2019 U.P. Welding Skills Challenge held at Northern Michigan University on Friday. The competition gives the students a chance to "show their stuff" said Mike Lutz, welding instructor with the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District. Top welding students from across the U.P. will be required to interpret prints and fabricate an item using...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Sunday Lake and Little Black River overflowed their banks Wednesday, causing street closures and concerted work by City of Wakefield employees who tackled the issue at several locations in town. By mid-day, water on the south side of the lake had reached U.S. 2, although it did not pool on the highway. The area around the Krist Food Mart and gas station, however, became an extension of the lake, with that stretch of Lakeshore Drive and the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Those with medications they no longer need have the opportunity to dispose them properly, as Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Now in its ninth year, the event seeks to remove opioids and other medications that can be abused from homes where they are vulnerable to “misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including children and teens,” said a spokesperson with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and its local partners around the country have collected mor...
Thursday, April 25 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. Free Community Dinner, 5-6 p.m., Wakefield Methodist Church. Public is invited. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18;...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Steven E. Boyd, 60, of Ironwood Township, left an unfillable place in our lives and hearts in the early morning hours of April 4, 2019. For six years he fought an aggressive cancer with a smile on his face. He shared his positive outlook freely with others. He is survived by his fiance Jacalyn and her son Hallby, children Chris (Rachel) and Brian, brother Bruce (Lorna), sister Barbara (Dave), father Don (Rose), four grandchildren, five nephews and one niece. Steve graduated...
HURLEY, Wis. - Mayona Buinowski, 89, of Ironwood, Mich., passed away at the Villa Marie Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley on April 21, 2019. She was born to Thomas and Louise Rowe on April 1, 1930, in Savannah, Ga. She married Norbert Buinowski on June 20, 1953, in Savannah. She enjoyed spending time at the family cottage on Lake Gogebic with her family for get-togethers and spending time outdoors. Her hobbies included gardening flowers, bushes, and shrubs She enjoyed sitting on her...
