Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY— The Range Art Association’s Art Show was judged on Thursday night by John McFaul, an award winning wildlife artist who has adopted Ironwood as his hometown. McFaul has had over 75 solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States, and his original works are featured in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Judging the 58th art show of the RAA provided McFaul with a way to get more involved in the local art community, he said. Next year’s show may b...
HURLEY — Local health care and community leaders took part in the annual Community Health Improvement Plan review through the Iron County Health Department at the Iron County Courthouse, Thursday. CHIP is required by the state of Wisconsin, and each health department must perform a review of the plan every five years. Representatives from the health department, Iron County Human Services Department, Mercer Health and Wellness Program, Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, H...
BESSEMER — Two sons of an elderly Ironwood couple who lost a parcel of land containing a camp because they didn’t pay taxes approached the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners with complaints Wednesday. The property will go up for auction at a sale of tax-reverted parcels on Aug. 3 in Watersmeet. “It’s out of our hands,” county board chairman Dan Siirila, of Ironwood, said. Richard and Tom Pallin said their mother had offered to pay the 2010 taxes with a personal check, but the county wouldn’t accept it. They said their elderly parents were ov...
To the Editor: Everyone should see the video of the group of masked marauders that attacked the mining site. The attacks were both verbal and physical. You can see the video on YouTube or JSOnline. This group calls itself “The Penokee Defenders,” or PDF. Subsequently, Gogebic Taconite hired a private security firm to protect their employees and property, only to be condemned by the known obstructionist state Sen. Robert Jauch, D-Poplar. Jauch has since retracted his statement and somehow now seems to believe that Americans do have a right to...
To the Editor: This letter is about the milk of human kindness. A week ago, we prepared to take an old settee and chair to be reupholstered in Ironwood. As my husband, Dick, loaded them into a borrowed pickup I had a premonition and said “that chair is going to bounce out.” His response was “no way,” and off we set. We arrived at the upholsterer and Dick went to the office to see where to unload. When he returned to the truck he said, “Where’s the chair?” thinking that it had already been taken by a worker. When it turned out it was simply gone...