Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Last month the Ironwood School Board voted to move students from Sleight Elementary to Luther L. Wright School and students, teachers and parents alike are preparing for the transition. The board approved a majority of the students in the district under one building at LLW and students in pre-kindergarten and the alternative school attending Sleight. The Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District offices being rented at LLW will be moved to Sleight, according to the board's plan....
BESSEMER – Some students head south during their spring breaks to get away from the cold. Others use the time off to recuperate and relax. But 20 students who have taken a German language class at Bessemer's A.D. Johnston High-Middle School took a trip to learn firsthand about European culture. "In history class, right now, they're studying the Cold War," said teacher Tracy Rowe. "Here we are in the middle of Berlin; you talk about being in the Cold War, we're right there." Rowe, who teaches mat...
IRONWOOD - Representatives from area organizations and law enforcement agencies came together for a forum on drug abuse in the area, hosted by the Gogebic and Ontonagon Human Services Coordinating Board at Gogebic Community College Tuesday. Attendees watched presentations from a variety of groups, including the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Tea, the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team, Michigan State Police, Western U.P. Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency and NorthCare Network Substance...
BESSMER - Residents of the Bessemer Area School district rejected a $4.98 million bond referendum to improve the district's two buildings on Tuesday by a slim margin of 62 votes. 33 percent of the 2,800 registered voters in the city and township came to the polls, which were held from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Bessemer City and Township halls. The BAS bond referendum failed by a vote of 431-493. Dave Radovich, BAS district administrator, had been spearheading the bond proposal, and was less than...
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. - Longtime Hall County resident Genevieve Caroline Lahey Crego, 74, of Flowery Branch, passed away Saturday, May 3, 2014, after suffering for many months with the bone marrow disorder myelofibrosis. Mrs. Crego was born July 17, 1939, to the late Raymond Joseph Lahey and Genevieve Marie Peschel Lahey in Clinton, Iowa. She moved to Flowery Branch in 1983. She was a member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church, where through the years she volunteered with the thrift store, was a...
To the Editor: I have spent my entire life being rather self-sufficient and successful in our society and never really worried about the day that I would be unable to care for myself. My life went on its merry way living a very nice life in this wonderful country of America. Often in the back of my mind there was a sense of wonderment of what it would be like if the tables turned. Being an avid reader of current events, I would read articles about those less fortunate and their horror stories thinking I was so lucky ... and indeed I was. Well,...