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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — With the school year over, the Ironwood Area Schools is once again launching its free Meet Up and Eat Up summer lunch program. “(The district offers the program) because of the amount of free and reduced lunches we have here … that don’t seem to get a healthy, balanced lunch for the summer; so it’s nice to have (the program) available,” Ironwood Food Services Director Mary Hampston Kusz said. “It’s a great place for kids to get outside, get together, play and get some exercise.” The...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary has joined other Rotary Clubs throughout the world in a project to plant trees in their communities. The project, to plant the same number of trees as there are members in each club, was a request to the thousands of clubs in the world by the Rotary International president. Following a lengthy discussion and comparing quotes from nurseries, the local club voted Wednesday to order 10 trees. The trees — maples and crab apples — will be planted at the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and at the Onton...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A defendant in the recent Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Enforcement Team drug raid in the Island Lake area waived his right to a preliminary examination Thursday in Iron County Court. An arraignment date for Eric Brady, 37, of Madison, will be set by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden. Bond was continued at $20,000 for Brady, who was arrested in the town of Knight along with Kenneth Lorenz, 38, of Waterford, Wis., and Bianca Pulaski, 21, of Ironwood Township, in late April. The arrests were the r...
Friday, June 8 Coffee With a Cop, 8 a.m., Ben’s Place, Ironwood. Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic C...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Mary (Kulick) Carmichael, 78, of Ironwood Township, died at home Monday, June 4, after a long battle with heart disease. Mary was born in Michigamme, and was a daughter to Alfred Kulick and Helen (Kulick) Mayotte. She was a graduate of Marenisco High School and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. One highlight of her time there was shaking the hand of John F. Kennedy at a student meet and greet. She later earned her Master's degree at...
RICE LAKE, Wis. - Audrey A. (Asunto) Gayan, 69, of Rice Lake, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 2, at Woodstone Senior Living Community, Rice Lake, after experiencing health issues for many years and a recent stay at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minn. She was born on June 26, 1948, in Ironwood, Mich., daughter of the late Charles and Martha (Niemi) Asunto and attended Roosevelt School in Ironwood Township, through the ninth grade. She continued her education and graduated from Luther...