Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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GILE, Wis. - Most fishermen are used to seeing the unfortunate sight of strands of monofilament fishing line in the water and surrounding brush, a sight the Friends of the Gile Flowage hopes becomes less common. It has recently installed PVC-pipe fishing line recycling units at boat launches around the flowage. As the monofilament isn't biodegradable, it can pose a hazard to the flowage's animals, according to Cathy Techtmann, FOG president. "As a high-density plastic, it can persist in the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Two Luther L. Wright students are putting the wood shop to good use. Brandon Nielsen and Donny Jarvenpaa, both 17, are active in Alison Stehlik's shop room. Stehlik is the daughter of a shop teacher, so before wondering what a female is doing teaching shop, remember it is 2017 and her dad ran a shop class and she did the natural thing to do in following in his footsteps. Besides, who does not like the smell of cut wood? Nielsen and...
SILVER CITY — Experienced sawyers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are heading to Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to help clean up downed trees from last week’s snow and ice storm. On April 26-27, higher elevations at the park received up to an inch of ice, which was then covered by two to four inches of snow. Numerous trees were weighed down and weakened by the thick coating of ice and snow. With 40 to 50 miles of the park’s roughly 90 miles of hiking trails assessed so far, 17 miles of trails are in “extr...
Friday, May 5 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, May 6 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School gymnasium....
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Eddie John Sandene passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, after a short illness. Eddie was born Aug. 17, 1932, in Ironwood, to Atte and Selina (Simila) Sandene. He attended Ironwood area schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School. He married Dolores Facchinello on Feb. 19, 1955. In his younger years he worked as a logger, hauling timbers to the area iron ore mines and hauling fallen trees from the Porkies after a tornado. One of his favorite stories...
BRUCE CROSSING, Mich. — June Kotila-Treptow, 78, died peacefully at home on May 3, 2017. June was born on June 28, 1938, in Bruce Crossing, the daughter of Eddie and Selma Illikainen. June is one of three children, along with her brothers, Michael (Kathy) Illikainen, Grand Rapids, and Stanley (Terri) Illikainen, Hurricane, W.Va. June graduated from Ewen High School. June was survived by husband, Robert Treptow; two daughters, Janine Tadlock, Wakefield, and Christine Kotila-Bowers, New Orleans; five grandchildren; and seven g...