Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - A couple dozen children and half again as many parents and care givers gathered in the lawn of the Ironwood Carnegie Library Monday afternoon to learn about nature. Enter Bart Kotarba, director of education at the Northwoods Wildlife Center in Minocqua, Wis. He talked to the kids about frogs - their habits, their diet, their lifecycle and needed ecosystem. He also played recordings of frogs and had the kids create their own chorus of...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield city council voted Monday to appoint mayor pro tempore Amy Tarro as a representative to attend meetings of a regional committee that will work to keep Marenisco’s Ojibway Correctional Institute open under a new threat of state closure. The action occurred at the end of a slide presentation by Jean Graham, dean of students at Gogebic Community College in Ironwood. Graham said Ojibway once again is among possible candidates for closure by the Michigan Dept. of Corrections. She sai...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — While the numbers will change as the year goes on, the board of education for the Ironwood Area Schools voted 5-2 to approve the initial budget for the 2018-19 school year. Board members Amanda Sprague and Marilyn Carey voted no, arguing they hadn’t had adequate time to review the document before the vote. Superintendent Tim Kolesar said the numbers in the budget were just projections, in part due to the way the state finances education. “The state makes us have our projected budge...
Tuesday, June 26 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Pickleball, 9-11 a.m. Hemlock Av. tennis courts, if raining, Ironwood Memorial Building. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Community Center. 715-561-2695. Grant writing workshop, 11 a.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Elk and Hound. “Through the Time Machine: ART ROCKS!,” 1 p.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Merce...
HURLEY, Wis. - On June 21, 2018, at 12:30 a.m., Evelyn Jeanne Lundberg, 80, crossed the river into the arms of her Heavenly Father. She fought the good fight and completed the race. Evelyn was born in Medford on Aug. 22, 1937. She obtained her bachelor's degree in primary and secondary education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She married David Lundberg on Dec. 23, 1960. They moved to the Montreal area in 1965 and began running Whitecap Mountains in 1966, where she remained until h...
