Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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OMA, Wis. - The second annual Aging-Friendly Communities Summit was held on Friday at the Oma Town Hall and featured a number of speakers discussing a variety of topics from elder law to dementia. The event was hosted by the Iron County Aging Friendly Communities Coalition, of which Andrea Newby is a member. Newby is a family living agent with Iron County's University of Wisconsin Extension Office. "We really just want to spread the word and try and engage as many people as we can," she said of...
HURLEY - The Iron County Historical Society and the Iron County Museum has taken recent measures to insure the clock at the old courthouse building keeps ticking. Members of the historical society, along with David Malmquist, a clock repairman from Ashland, recently cleaned the clock and analyzed it for further work. "The clock is fairly dirty and I would like to take it down and overhaul the entire piece, but overall it appears to be in fairly decent shape," Malmquist said. The historical...
MERCER, Wis. - Odonata Art Gallery is again taking part in the annual Northwoods Art Tour this weekend. The tour consists of art galleries across northern Wisconsin. Some locations also include demonstrations. Mitch and Laurie Myers, owners and operators of Odonata, have participated in the tour since its second year. "The art tour has been very good to us," Mitch Myers, an outdoor photographer and woodworker, said. "We try to bring in different artists with different types of style, so people...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Donald E. Luoma, 82, of E5148 Riverside Road, Ironwood, died Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Ironwood. Donald was born Sept. 9, 1931, in Bessemer, son of the late John and Jennie (Kivi) Luoma. He moved to Erwin Township in 1939. He attended Erwin Township schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1949. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in April of 1952. He served as an infantryman in the 7th Division of the 32nd Regiment in Japan and Korea. He...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Writer-producer Sam Shaw was grappling with how to craft a TV drama about the war on terror and the price it exacts from those who keep its secrets. He found the answer by looking back to the early 1940s, when U.S. scientists and others working in isolation created the first atomic bombs without the knowledge of Congress, the vice president or the American public. The result is "Manhattan," debuting Sunday (9 p.m. EDT) on cable channel WGN America. The drama is set in a...
HURLEY - Hurley football got a bit of revenge on Shiocton Friday. Well, on the golf course anyway. Colin DiGiorgio and Ross Corullo of Hurley beat father-and-son Jim and Jason Hill in a one-hole playoff at Eagle Bluff for their first Hurley Quarterback Club Golf Touranment title. While Jim is an Iron Belt native, Jason is a 2000 graduate of Shiocton, whose football team defeated Hurley in the state semifinal last season on its way to a state title. Jason follows both teams. "I was with coach...