Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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The Jack Kraemer Invitational was moved from late April to early May because it always seemed to be postponed because of the weather. Monday was Kraemer day in Ironwood when track-and-field teams from across the region come to compete in what is usually the biggest meet of the year locally. And the weather was great with temperatures in the 60s; the sun was even out. Too bad the field event areas at Longyear Field in Ironwood were covered with snow, like the shot put. The track had puddles and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harmless. They won’t hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplin...
NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Catherine Delma Zerndt, 82, of Mercer, Wis., died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at the home of her daughter, surrounded by her loved ones. The former Catherine Delma O’Brien was born Jan. 25, 1931, in Detroit, daughter of the late William and Catherine (McGrath) O’Brien. She graduated from Holy Redeemer High School in Detroit and attended Mary Grove College there for two years. She moved to Florida with friends shortly after college, and then moved back to Michigan where she met h...
MARQUETTE, Mich. — The Honorable William Graham Cloon Jr., 82, of Ironwood, known as Bill to everyone, retired Ironwood attorney and former 98th District Court and 32nd Circuit Court judge of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, passed away Friday, May 3, 2013, at Marquette General Hospital in Marquette. He was born April 11, 1931, in Ironwood, son of the late Mary (King) and William Gabriel Cloon Sr., and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1948, where he was a member of the winning t...
PARK FALLS, Wis. — Germaine Berthe Jeanne Kichak, 93, of Mercer, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Park Manor Nursing Home in Park Falls. The former Germaine Berthe Jeanne Le’ger was born April 17, 1919, in Amiens, France, daughter of the late Le’on Edmond Gaston and Berthe Irma Marie (Lefebvre) Le’ger. She married John F. Kichak on Dec. 6, 1945, in France, and worked for the French government prior to coming to Ironwood, Mich. in 1946. Moving to Mercer in 1949, she worked with her husband operati...
WAUSAU, Wis. — Ruth M. Mikich, 78, of Wausau, formerly of Minocqua, passed away May 2, 2013, at Mount View Care Center, Wausau, due to complications of Parkinson’s disease. Ruth was born Aug. 13, 1934, in Ely, Minn., the daughter of the late Andrew and Mari Kivipelto. She married Arden Mikich on Dec. 14, 1957, in Ely. She attended Ely High School and St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Rochester, Minn., where she earned her registered nurse degree. She returned to Ely and worked as a registered nurs...
