Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ONTONAGON — Jim Johnson, captain of the Jolly Roger, and his boat crew captured first place in Ontonagon’s recent Eighth Annual Lake Trout Classic. Johnson, who operates the Jolly Roger out of Black River Harbor, and crew members Ron Maloney, of Iron River, and Dennis Forslund, of Silver City, formerly of Bessemer, caught two lakers from Lake Superior weighing more than 16 pounds and also six-pounder. They won $1,200 for first place and $200 for the largest trout. They turned all of their win...
IRONWOOD — Three members of the Class of 2013 surpassed a high goal in graduating on May 26, something superintendent Tim Kolesar can’t remember ever seeing in 30 years of working in the school district. Three graduates had cumulative grade point averages above 4.0. Maighlin Kolesar had a GPA of 4.0309, Ellen Hagstrom 4.0129 and Bradley Torni 4.0001. “That is just amazing to me,” Tim Kolesar said. According to Hagstrom and Torni, the GPAs came as a surprise. “I had no idea until I went to p...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history: $590 million. Gloria C. MacKenzie, a retiree from Maine and a mother of four who lives in a modest, tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, where the lone winning ticket in the May 18 drawing was sold, took her prize in a lump sum of just over $370 million. After federal taxes, she is gettin...
To the Editor: During the lame duck session, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law, Public Act 520, designating the wolf a game animal. A referendum drive was launched and signatures were gathered in every Michigan county by registered Michigan voters. Last week, the Secretary of State certified that far more than the required 161,000 signatures were obtained and approved the referendum for the November 2014 ballot, suspending the implementation of Public Act 520 until voters decide. The referendum process does not threaten anyone’s r...
BYRON, Minn. — Louis “Louie” Eppolite, 86, of Byron, died at home Tuesday, June 4, 2013, with his family at his side. Louie was born Feb. 26, 1927, in Bessemer, Mich., to Arnold and Mary (Magnaghetti) Eppolite. He grew up in Yale Location of Bessemer. He served in the U.S. Army from October 1945 to October 1946 with an honorable discharge. Louie worked at the Carey Iron Ore Mine in the Bessemer area. He married Beverly Gerry on June 5, 1948. In 1958 they moved to Tucson, Ariz., where he managed...
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government plans to sell another 30 million shares of General Motors stock in a public offering on Thursday as it speeds up efforts to divest itself from a stake in the auto giant that it got in a bailout four years ago. The Treasury Department will set the price for the shares after the markets close on Thursday, with the sale taking place shortly thereafter. A United Auto Workers retiree health care trust fund will join the sale and sell 20 million shares, pushing t...
