Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - With the hard part completed over the past months and years, Friday was the payoff for the graduates taking part in Gogebic Community College's 84th annual commencement ceremony. Following a welcome from interim GCC president Erik Guenard and an introduction by GCC Board of Trustees chair John Lupino, David Linquist Jr. gave the commencement address. Linquist, the director of licensing and athletic properties at the University of Minnesota, has longstanding ties the college - not...
LANSING - Twenty-nine students from Bessemer recently competed in the state Science Olympiad tournament in Lansing. Both the junior and senior high teams qualified for the tournament by placing well at the regional tournament held at Northern Michigan University in Marquette in February. At the state tournament, Bessemer competed against 60 teams to see which would win the tournament and advance to the national tournament. In the end, the Bessemer's high school team finished 40th and the junior...
BESSEMER — Just under $1.4 million — that’s the amount former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso is ordered to pay in restitution as part of her criminal case on embezzlement and forgery charges. After listening to arguments from both sides May 1, Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope ruled Friday the township is owed $1,398,654 in restitution to cover both the amount stolen and some of the costs the township incurred investigating the embezzlement. “We understand that collecting this amount from the defendant certain...
Saturday, May 12 Friends of the Ironwood Carnegie Spring Used Book Sale, 7:30 a.m.–2 p.m., Ironwood Memorial Building auditorium. Men’s Breakfast and Bible study, 8 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, Wakefield. Red Bull 400, Copper Peak, Free for spectators. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Denim ‘n’ Dessert Readers Theatre, “HARVEY,” 7 p.m., Presque Isle Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Ch...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Brian Arthur Cook Jr., 38, of Osceola, Wis., passed away on May 4, 2018, after a yearlong brave fight with cancer at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was born on June 18, 1979, in Bessemer, Mich., to Brian Arthur Cook Sr. and Rosemary (Tibaldo) Cook. Brian loved his family, his wife, kids and grandson, fishing, hunting, mud bogging, riding his wheeler, bonfires, and spending time with his friends. His work here on earth was not done, but the Lord called him home, one can only assume the Lord h...