Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER — When two people suspected of dealing heroin in an Ironwood motel were arraigned in court this week, it was accomplished by videoconferencing, even though the Gogebic County Jail is only a short walk from the county courthouse in Bessemer. There are many reasons videoconferencing is working effectively in courtrooms throughout Michigan. Michigan Supreme Court Justice David F. Viviano reported this week expanded use of videoconferencing technology to create "virtual" courtrooms has saved the Michigan Department of Corrections nearly $5...
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. - Ruth M. Pastori-Merrill, 58, of Eagle River, left us on May 27, 2015, after a very painful battle against multiple myeloma cancer complications, including haldol medication overdose deliriums, kidney dialysis and drug-resistant infections. She passed on to a far better place while in the intensive care unit of the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. Her husband, Joe, with his sister and brother, along with her siblings, Arlene, Jean, Elaine, and Andy, were near her...
WATERFORD, Mich. - Dominican Sister of Peace Mary Virginia Berak, OP, 92, died on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at the Lourdes Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Waterford. She was born Margaret Berak on Aug. 8, 1922, in Czechoslovakia, and was the youngest of four children. Her parents were Joseph and Susan Novak Berak. At the age of 5, she, her mother and three siblings, Joseph, Steve and Ann, immigrated to Detroit, where her father found employment. Margaret lived with her family until she...
Saturday, June 13 Friends of the Ironwood Library, 10 a.m., Ironwood Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2 to 5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. Chess Nuts Chess Club, 4 p.m., Maplewood Steakhouse, Ironwood. Sunday, June 14 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org....