Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Much like the road itself, a more than $4.7 million state grant announced Wednesday to improve County Road 519 is intended to smooth the way for the development of the Copperwood copper mining project in northern Gogebic County. The $4,775,321 state transportation economic development grant is designed to help fund a Gogebic County Road Commission project to reconstruct 13 miles of County Road 519 between M-28 and the site of Highland Copper’s Copperwood Project to make the road an all...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Beacon Ambulance and Aspirus Ironwood Hospital officials are trying to come up with a long-term plan to retain ambulance service in Gogebic and Iron Counties. Gogebic County Emergency Management Director Jim Loeper told the county board of supervisors Wednesday that Beacon Ambulance “is in jeopardy of closing for a bunch of different reasons.” The chief reason, Loeper said, it that Beacon has lost many employees in the past six months and is facing a personnel shortage. Beacon, under the o...
LANSING - Secretary of State Ruth Johnson made the following statement regarding the announced deal to eliminate Driver Responsibility Fees: "This announced deal to address and fully eliminate Driver Responsibility Fees is great news for Michigan motorists. The automatic fees collected by the Department of Treasury were a terrible mistake during the dark days of Michigan's lost decade. They're a double-penalty that hit hard-working Michigan families and unlike the underlying traffic ticket,...
Thursday, Feb. 15 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, 9:45-10 a.m. EST, Lake Gogebic Senior Center, Bergland; 10:20-10:35 a.m. EST, Porcupine Mountain Senior Center, White Pine; 11-11:45 a.m. EST, Holy Family Catholic Church parking lot, Ontonagon; 1:15-1:45 p.m. EST, Resource Center, Mass City; 2:15-2:45 p.m. EST, Stannard Township Ballpark, Bruce Crossing; 2:30-2:45 p.m., Watersmeet Town Hall parking lot, Watersmeet. 906-884-2106. Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic...
