Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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PALMETTO, Fla. - Garner Merrick, 84, of Palmetto, passed away after a battle with lung disease on May 25, 2015. Born in Fenton, Mich., on Jan, 27, 1931, he graduated from Fenton High School with the class of 1949 and attended Michigan State University. After spending four years with the U.S. Air Force as an F-86 pilot during the Korean War, he married and settled in Ironwood, Mich., where he headed up the tax department, both at the city and county levels, from 1964 to 1974. After moving to Flor...
Saturday, June 6 Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Go Ride R Range Ride, 2 p.m., sixth annual GRRRR bike ride, Bluff Valley Park, Bessemer. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2 to 5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. Chess Nuts Chess Club, 4 p.m., Maplewood Steakhouse, Ironwood. Fat Tire Bicycle Ride, 6:30 p.m., Bluff View Park, Bessemer. Sunday, June 7 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. National Finnish American Festival Inc, 2 p.m., annual meeting, Little F...
BESSEMER - Growing up in Ramsay, Molly Wieringa has become accustomed to living in a small town. "The sense of community while growing up in a small town, that will always be with me. I know people here, and they've always supported me." As a child, Wieringa was always outside playing or inside reading a good book. For as long as she can remember, she said reading has been a big part of her life. "You can learn so much just by reading, even if it's not an instructional book," Wieringa said....
Letter to the editor: Most people my age remember stories of parents or relatives when football teams from Marquette, Superior, Iron Mountain and others played the teams from the Iron Range in the 1920s and into the 1990s. They and we kept an eye on local sports pages when in the armed forces or working throughout the country. Men and women from the area exceled in sports, academics and, of course, the military, during our lifetimes. Closing the mines resulted in smaller school populations and less economic opportunity for the graduates of the...