Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY — Fifty children, many from the Hurley School’s STARS program, gathered in the conference room at Hurley City Hall Wednesday to meet three birds of prey from the Northwoods Wildlife Center during part of the Hurley Library’s summer programming. Courtney Wright, assistant director of education for the center, brought an American kestrel named T.J., a broad-winged hawk named Rory, and Cecil the owl. The birds were all rescued and are cared for at the center in Minocqua because of visio...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday backed a more southern route for Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed statewide bicycle trail. Instead of supporting Snyder’s northern route that would follow Lake Superior and mirror the North Country Trail, the board suggested a route that would locally extend from Ironwood to Watersmeet, along a trail that already exists. Barb Kramer, a Dickinson County commissioner, spoke to the board, supporting a southern route that would go through her county. When Gogebic County commi...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School Board of Education has some difficult decisions to make, and not a lot of time to make them, which resulted in a special board meeting on Wednesday night. The board approved posting for a high school principal, as they received district administrator Mark Johnson’s resignation late Sunday evening. Former board member Tim France said that the board got notice of Johnson’s intent to accept a different position on May 20. Board member Bill McDonald said that...
MERCER, Wis. — Odonata Art Gallery is hosting guest artist Patrice Pfeiffer, of Riverview, Fla., during the annual Northwoods Art Tour running Friday through Sunday. Pfeiffer has visited Wisconsin often and found Odonata Art Gallery by accident. However, because of this random visit, she and gallery owner Laurie Myers became friends. “I stopped in randomly one day and loved it,” Pfeiffer said. “I have always been inspired by wildlife and art, and the gallery was a perfect place for that. I...
MINOCQUA, Wis. — Donald P. Novacich, 76, of Ironwood, Mich., died Tuesday, July 23, 2013, at Avanti Health and Rehabilitation Center in Minocqua. He was born Dec. 24, 1936, in Ironwood, son of the late Peter and Theresa (Vlasich) Novacich, attended Ironwood public schools, and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1954. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army on Jan. 11, 1955, serving in Company B, 249th Engineer Construction Battalion, in France and Germany, and was honorably discharged o...