Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By KIM E. STROM [email protected] MERCER - Wisconsin Remembers: A Face for Every Name traveling exhibit is a tribute to lost life and lost potential. It features the pictures of over 1,161 Vietnam War Veterans of Wisconsin and is on display at the Mercer Public Library through Wednesday Nov. 27. It took eight years to gather the photos, according to Wisconsin Public Radio's website. Volunteers, including family and friends of those killed as well as teachers, students and others who just...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The Mercer Town Board of Supervisors on Thursday addressed the issue of the growing number of vacation rental units without permits. There are at least three residential homes in the community are being used as tourist rooming houses, said John Sendra, town board chair during his report to the supervisors. The owners are advertising as vacation rentals through online rental agencies such as AirBnB and VRBO but as far as the city is aware, no one is paying lodging or other taxes a...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, MERCER, Wis. — If an Iron County grant application is approved the town of Mercer and city of Hurley may receive subsidized public transportation services sometime in 2020, according to officials. Bay Area Rural Transit (BART), based in Ashland, is a subsidized public transit system that operates at minimal cost to passengers. BART also provides accommodations for physical accessibility to the disabled. Cally Bucknell, director of the Iron County Department of Human Services, and Trista O...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Nov. 23 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Nov. 24 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I... Full story