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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER - One person was killed and two were injured in a Thursday afternoon accident in the city of Bessemer that closed U.S. 2 for more than four hours. Gogebic County Sheriff Peter Matonich said a 41-year-old Wakefield man, Rex Robert Smith, was traveling east near Fairview Drive when he lost control of his vehicle and it spun into the westbound lanes of the highway. It collided with a vehicle driven by Alvin Liikanen, 86, of Ironwood. Liikanen and...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] BESSEMER - At Thursday night's city of Bessemer's Downtown Development Authority meeting, DDA agreed to a request for facade improvement funds for Alpha Management, 302 S. Sophie St. Owner Kara Bucknell asked for improvement funds to be able to repaint the non-brick areas of the building. Bucknell was approved $1,100 for the project. She is to bring in all receipts once the project is completed to get reimbursed. Also receiving funding was Louis Campos...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County is continuing its efforts to expand broadband access throughout the country, with the Board of Supervisors’ finance committee budgeting $18,000 towards local matching funds for the latest state grant application Wednesday. The application to the Wisconsin Public Services Commission is seeking to build a new tower in the area near Fisher Lake in the town of Mercer. “This would be a new tower out near Fisher Lake and it would kind of expand off of what we’ve already been doing ...
Friday, July 13 Coffee With A Cop, Uptown Cafe, 8 a.m. Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate SchoolDistrict OISD Special Education activity, Lake Superior scavenger hunt, 8 a.m., meet at L.L. Wright High School. “Saving Our Lakes and Rivers” meeting, 9 a.m.-noon, Nicolet College, Rhinelander. Red Cross Blood Drive, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Hurley Elementary School. 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...