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Articles from the June 15, 2018 edition


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  • Bessemer Women's Club offers Flag Day fun with social

    Jun 15, 2018

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer Women's Club celebrated its 26th Flag Day social Thursday with a beautiful day and enough treats to fill a bakery. The location was in the city hall auditorium. In charge every year since conceiving the event has been Barbara Karpus, who joined the club 58 years ago. In addition to acknowledging another patriotic day in our nation's history, Karpus said the $2 ticket charge helps club members to provide a scholarship for a...

  • Township renews agreement with Bessemer Library

    Jun 15, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — While they may have been sympathetic to the Ironwood Carnegie Library’s case, the numbers gave the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees little option but to renew the township’s contract with the Bessemer Public Library for another year of library services. The board voted 4-3 Thursday to approve a one-year agreement with the Bessemer Library, which will begin July 1. Supervisor Steve Boyd, Treasurer Maria Graser and Trustee Kevin Lyons voted against contracting with Besse...

  • Ewen-Trout Creek School Board seeks principal-superintendent

    Jun 15, 2018

    EWEN — With the resignation of Ewen-Trout Creek Superintendent Alan Tulppo, the school district is looking for a leader. The E-TC School Board accepted Tulppo’s resignation Wednesday. He said he has accepted the position of director of general education at the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District. He will begin his duties there on July 2. The school board subsequently posted several different scenarios for his replacement, including an internal posting calling for a K-12 principal, as well as external postings for a part-time sup...

  • Oman Opens

    Jun 15, 2018

  • Community calendar

    Jun 15, 2018

    Friday, June 15 Coffee With a Cop, 8 a.m., Joe’s Pasty Shop, Ironwood. GOISD Special Education Gardening, 8 a.m., meet at L.L. Wright School to go to Norrie Park. 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. Summer Reading Kick Off Party and Family Concert with Dana Banana, 5 p.m., Ironwood Car...

  • Laverne Francis Brown

    Jun 15, 2018

    FRISCO, Texas — Laverne Francis Brown, 95, of Frisco, passed away on June 2, 2018. She was born on Aug. 13, 1922, in Wakefield, Mich., to Mary Elizabeth (Pezzetti) and Mose Giansante. On Oct. 8, 1949, Laverne married Lyle William Brown. They resided in Hancock, Mich., until 1978 when they moved to Murrieta, Calif. In 2004, Mrs. Brown moved to Frisco. Laverne is survived by her daughter, Susan Moe, and son, Patrick Brown and his wife, Kay; three grandchildren, Christopher Moe, Andrea Brown, a...