Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY — Football practice doesn't start for a month, but the Hurley Midgets had 40 high school players on the gridiron Monday for a Blugold Football Camp. The UW-Eau Claire coaching staff came to Hurley to conduct the camp for the second year in a row. “I knew we were going to have a good number of kids this year coming out for fall ball. To get 40 here today feels like the program is really going and continuing in the right direction,” Hurley coach Scott Erickson said. “Very happy. A lot of sc... Full story
HURLEY — “Make it stronger” was the theme of many speeches during a public hearing on a proposed mining ordinance in Iron County Monday in Hurley. More than one hundred people packed into the Iron County Memorial Building to express support or concerns about the draft ordinance to the Iron County Zoning Committee. Each speaker was given a three-minute limit, and zoning administrator Tom Bergman started the hearing by giving background on how the ordinance came to be. According to Bergman, minin... Full story
HURLEY — Monday afternoon, more than 30 people attended a rally on Silver Street in Hurley to discuss the possible adverse environmental affects that could result if an iron mine were to start up in Upson, Wis. The Penokee Hills Education Project sponsored the “press conference,” led by Frank Koehn, of Ashland, Wis. Five area residents spoke. The event lasted roughly 30 minutes. According to Koehn, while the community is small it has “so much to lose.” He also spoke about having good relations... Full story
NEW YORK (AP) — Months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island, the Statue of Liberty will finally welcome visitors again on Independence Day. Sandy made landfall one day after the statue’s 126th birthday, flooding most of the 12 acres she stands upon with water that surged as high as 8 feet. Lady Liberty herself was spared, but the surrounding grounds on Liberty Island took a beating. Railings broke, docks and paving stones were torn up and buildings were flooded. The storm des... Full story
To the Editor: It is truly unfortunate that state Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, has decided to totally undermine his credibility by providing false statements to the Daily Globe for Saturday’s article on the talk that I gave to the Iron County Citizens Forum on the need for the county to adopt a local mining ordinance to protect private property owners and county property taxpayers. Tiffany stated that I recommended that Iron County adopt a two-year moratorium on mining in the county. The truth is that I did not do so and in fact, three d... Full story
MARSHFIELD, Wis. — Jeanne C. Olson, 82, a lifelong Ironwood, Mich., resident, died peacefully Thursday, June 27, 2013, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, with her family by her side. The former Jeanne Cobb was born March 7, 1931, in Hibbing, Minn., daughter of the late Sherman and Ethel (Wicklem) Cobb, and came to Ironwood as a child, where she attended Ironwood schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1948. She attended junior college in Ironwood and graduated from Nor... Full story
MADISON, Wis. — Mary Ann Johnson, 64, of Ironwood, Mich., died unexpectedly Saturday, June 29, 2013, at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, after suffering a brain aneurysm at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood on Thursday, June 27. She was born Oct. 28, 1948, in Ironwood, daughter of the late Zane and Jean (Coleman) Thiede, attended Southside School in Hurley, and graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in 1966. She then attended cosmetology school in Appleton and worked as a cosmetologist for a short time. She was currently e... Full story
