Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ONTONAGON - Two local school records fell Friday at the Ontonagon Invitational. A meet record may have fallen if anybody kept weather records over the years. Bessemer's Lily Wieringa broke the school record in the 3,200-meter run and Ontonagon's Lori Wardynski became her school's all-time best in the 300 hurdles. The heat was intense for the first half of the meet when temperatures soared into the upper 80s before clouds and eventually rain came through. Houghton easily won both the boys and...
IRONWOOD - Thunder and flashing lights occurred both inside and outside the Gogebic Community College Lindquist Center gymnasium at Friday's graduation ceremonies. The inside stuff was flashing light bulbs from cameras, while the outside thunder and light show came from Mother Nature. GCC president James Lorenson was nearly drowned out by the thunder as he began to introduce the 82nd GCC commencement speaker, Dr. Randy Smith, president of the Rural Community College Alliance. Smith, from...
IRONWOOD — With temperatures reaching the low 90s across the Gogebic Range Friday, weather records were broken. It soared to 93 degrees on Friday afternoon in downtown Ironwood and that far surpassed the previous record for May 6-7 of 86 set in 1926. The Marquette office of the National Weather Service keeps records for Ironwood dating to 1901. It wasn’t a muggy type of heat as the humidity ranged in the mid-20s throughout Friday, with a slight south breeze adding to the fire danger in the area. Ironwood had received only .10 inch of rain in...
Saturday, May 7 Vacant Lots Clean-up Day, 8-11 a.m., Ayer Street, Ironwood. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Burma Road/Miners Park Clean-Up, 9 a.m. to noon. Meet at Hiawatha Park, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, May 8 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mothers Day Walk, 2 p.m., Depot Park, Ironwood. Mothers Day Concert, 2 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7...
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - Helen Pauline Foster, 91, resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, died on May 2, 2016. She was born on Oct. 17, 1924, in St. Paul. She was the youngest daughter of Edward and Theresa Becker of Farmington. She graduated from Randolph High School in Randolph in 1941 and attended Minneapolis Business College. She was employed at 3M Company for 42 years. She married Albert Landwher and Harry Lau. Both preceded her in death. In 1994, she married fellow Randolph M. High School classmate...