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Articles from the June 9, 2016 edition


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  • All Saints kindergarteners march

    Tom Stankard|Jun 9, 2016

    IRONWOOD - Wearing their finest clothes, four kindergarten students at All Saints Catholic Academy received their diplomas following Mass Wednesday morning. As hymns filled Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, the four graduates in Emily Lightfoot's class made their way down the aisle to the front pew. The graduates read Bible verses and sang alongside their parents and other family members in the congregation. Graduates Cristina Braucher and Gavin Davis held a banner with a Psalm written in...

  • Michigan DNR advises spraying to fight spruce budworms

    Jun 9, 2016

    Michigan Department of Natural Resources forest health experts anticipate widespread defoliation from spruce budworms to continue across much of the Upper Peninsula in the weeks to come. Robert Heyd, MDNR Forest Health Management Program leader, toured the region last week. He said the trees have shed their bud caps and spruce budworm larvae are feeding on the young spruce and fir shoots. "Homeowners interested in protecting landscape spruce or fir from defoliation this year should spray trees...

  • County board OKs list for parcel sales

    Ralph Ansami|Jun 9, 2016

    BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday agreed to place 12 foreclosed parcels up for sale, exerxising its right to the properties. County treasurer Sue Pertile said people are interested in purchasing four of the lots. All 12 of the lots are vacant. Five of the parcels are in Bessemer Township and seven are in Ironwood Township. Pertile said the parcels are offered to neighboring landowners for the price of back taxes and recording fees. “The county will only acquire and transfer to the Land Bank those parcels that the...

  • Community Calendar

    Jun 9, 2016

    Thursday, June 9 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Red Hat Society Northwoods Divas, noon, Rigoni’s, Ironwood. Reservations required to 906-932-5455 or 906-663-4871. Grief Support Group, 1 to 2:30 p.m., all welcome, Dr. Kate Hospice office, 1571 Highway 51 North in Arbor Vitae. Grief Support Group, 2 p.m., all welcome, The Inn Bed and Breakfast, M...