Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - While the marina at Saxon Harbor isn't expected to re-open until May 2019, following its destruction during the rain and flooding of the July 2016 storm, a pair of boats were docked there Monday. The two boats - owned by Mark Zarzyski and Shane Wyzlick - were part of a group of four boats that were purchased in Ohio and sailed through the Sault Ste. Marie locks to the Northwoods. Zarzyski and Wyzlick - along with the other owners,...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic Miners co-operative football program, consisting of Wakefield-Marenisco, Bessemer, and Ironwood, officially has a head coach and three assistant coaches. The school board agreed to hire Mark Mazzon as the new head coach Tuesday. Assisting Mazzon are Richard Matrella, Dave Lundin, and Joe Kuklinski, while a fifth football coaching position was left unfilled in the event enough kids turn out to warrant a fifth hire. The Bessemer school board also approved membership of the M...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission Tuesday awarded the bid for this summer’s sewer-water project to Ruotsala Construction, LLC, of Ironwood, at $3,378,980. Five bids were received on May 25 from construction contractors for the project. All met the bidding requirements. Ruotsala bid $3,218,303, but the city commission on Tuesday agreed to a change order of $160,678 to increase the amount of the original bid. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development project budgets are broken down into wat...
Wednesday, June 7 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency Nutriont Council, 10:30 a.m., Mill Street Garden dining room, Bessemer. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency quarterly food commodity distribution for registered families, noon-2:30 p.m. EST, fire hall, Bruce Crossing; 2-4:30 p.m. EST, 429 River St., Ontonagon. 906-667-0283. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/H...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Richard W. Dembowski Sr., 69, a long-time resident of Wakefield, passed away peacefully Saturday evening, May 27, 2017. Rick was born on Feb. 20, 1948, in Milwaukee, a son of Bronislaus and Eleanore (Karolewicz) Dembowski. He attended school in Milwaukee and graduated from Pulaski High School in 1966. Rick proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged as a specialist 4th grade on March 1, 1970. Rick took great pride serving in...
MARQUETTE, Mich. - Jerome F. Lazowski, 88, of Ironwood, passed away on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at D. J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette. He was born April 4, 1929, in Ironwood, the son of the late Michael and Amelia (Ziemba) Lazowski. Jerome graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood with the Class of 1947. He worked at a shoe repair shop for a time before entering the service. Jerome served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1954 during the Korean Conflict. Part of his...
MADISON, Wis. - Ramona Rose Hamann, 80, passed away peacefully June 4, 2017, in Madison, surrounded by her loving family. Mona was born in Eagle Valley in 1937 to Anton and Blanch Patzner. She grew up on a dairy farm near Lewiston, Minn. After graduating from Kotter High School in Winona, Minn., she was trained as a nurse at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., and went on to become a highly skilled surgical nurse spending most of her career at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minn. Her...
