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Articles from the May 10, 2016 edition


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  • Road Commission approves bridge design proposals

    May 10, 2016

    By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Road Commission approved Monday evening a bridge design proposal and a bridge inspection proposal both from Brian Hintsala, of AECOM Technology. Darren Pionk, road commission engineer-manager, said the bridge design proposal of $61,216 from AECOM is for bridges on Kimberly Road and East Shore Road in Marenisco Township. Pionk said Hintsala has been the commission’s “bridge engineer” for the last 5 years and he designed “quite a few” bridges in Gogebic County. Dan Sirrila...

  • Johnson pleads to drug charges

    May 10, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Testifying via video feed from the Iron County Jail, Michael Scott Johnson, 21, Ramsay, pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver heroin in Gogebic County Circuit Court in Bessemer Monday. The plea was part of a deal that will result in six additional charges and a habitual offender-third offense designation dismissed by the Gogebic County Prosecutor’s Office. Both felony charges Johnson pled gui...

  • Community Calendar

    May 10, 2016

    Tuesday, May 10 Pickleball, 9-11 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Friends of the Mercer Public Library, 10 a.m., library, Mercer, Wis. Tiny Tot Story Hour, 10 a.m., Wakefield Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. New members welcome. Bessemer American Legion Post 27, 5 p.m., American Legion, Bessemer. Ironwood American Legion Post 5, 5:30 p.m. dinner,...

  • Davis pleads guilty in Sunset Road meth case

    May 10, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — John Raymond Davis, 41, pled guilty to two felony counts in Gogebic County Circuit Court Monday, in relation to a methamphetamine lab discovered March 30 in a Sunset Road apartment unit in Ironwood Township. “On March 30, I was in the process of making methamphetamine when the cops showed up,” Davis testified during the court appearance. In exchange to pleading guilty to charges of operating/maintaining a meth lab and conspiracy to opera...

  • Greta M. Gregory

    May 10, 2016

    LANSING, Mich. - Greta M. Gregory, 81, passed away on May 5, 2016, following complications from a stroke. She was born and raised in Ironwood, where she married her husband of 63 years, Frank "Skip" Gregory. Together they raised their four children in Michigan, Nevada and New Jersey. Greta's parents were Norman and Eliza Richards, of Cornwall, England. Norman died when Greta was only 4. Eliza taught Greta all she knew about knitting, crocheting, sewing and, of course, making pasties. She tried...