Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - For the second straight year, a Feed the Hungry van arrived Monday to bring 21,000 pounds of food to the Lighthouse Faith Center Church on Ironwood's Ayer Street. Pastor Tom Rouse said the free food products will be distributed to the needy on the Gogebic Range on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. "Whoever comes, comes," he said of the would-be recipients. Rouse said from his conversations with area food shelter operators, like the Union Station...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School District board of education met Monday after holding a Truth in Taxation meeting to discuss next years millage and debt retirement rate. The board set the Non-Homestead Operating Millage at 17.9694, which according to Chris Bergquist has not changed in years and set the A.D. Johnston debt retirement millage at 2.45. Jim Partanen, briefing for the finance committee highlighted the 2016-17 Food Service budget came i...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — While Ironwood Township’s Board of Review doesn’t meet frequently, there are now options if a board member can’t make one of the three meetings each year, after the township’s board of trustees approved two board alternates. Darrin Kimbler and Sandy Lahtinen were each approved for a two-year term as alternates for the board; which meets in March, July and December. The board’s March meeting is where township tax payers can appeal the amount they are taxed, while the July and De...
Tuesday, June 27 Pickleball, 9 a.m. to noon, good weather, Hurley High School tennis courts, bad weather: Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Community Center. 715-561-2695. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. New members welcome. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Mercer, Wis. Life Support Group...
WAUSAU, Wis. - Lloyd Marvin Taeger, 80, of Ontonagon, Mich., passed away on June 20, 2017, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. Lloyd was born in Paynesville, Mich., to Larry and Aileen Taeger on Aug. 14, 1936. He attended the Trout Creek schools, graduating in 1955. During his teen years he worked at the Trout Creek IGA, where he learned the fine art of meat cutting. Following graduation, Lloyd worked as a Merchant Marine, cooking on the ore carrier the Harvester. During the winters, when the boat was d...
WESTON, Wis. - Edwin J. Sybeldon, 79, of Pine Lake, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, at Tender Reflections in Weston. He was born Sept. 4, 1937, in Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Edwin and Rosetta (Murray) Sybeldon, and graduated from Hurley High School in 1955. He then received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from St. Norbert College in De Pere and a master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1966. Ed was employed by Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in...
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. - Jean A. Haanpaa, 58, of Iron Mountain, passed away Saturday, June 24, 2017, at her home. She was born May 30, 1959, in Ironwood, daughter of the late Roger and Joan (Sertich) Chagnon. Jean grew up in Baraga, and graduated from Baraga High School, Class of 1983. She resided in L'Anse and later Baraga until 1991, at which time she moved to Iron Mountain. Jean worked as a nurse's aide at Manor Care Health Services and Evergreen Assisted Living. In 2008, she went to work for...
MUNISING, Mich. — Patrick “Pat” C. Dowd, 53, of Munising, died Thursday, June 22, 2017, at his home under the loving care of his family. He was born on Jan. 14, 1964, in Port Huron, to William and Janet (Paeth) Dowd. Patrick graduated from Ironwood Catholic High School in 1982. In 1996, Patrick went to Gogebic Community College and earned his degree and became a Registered Nurse. He worked at Tendercare Health Center in Munising, as a pediatrics and NICU nurse in Green Bay and Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley, Wis. Patri...
