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  • Community Calendar

    Jul 26, 2016

    Tuesday, July 26 Pickleball, 9-11 a.m., Hurley High School Tennis Courts. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Community Center. 715-561-2695. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. New members welcome. Story Time, 2 p.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m.,... Full story

  • Township treasurer resigns; board requests MSP investigation into township finances

    Richard Jenkins|Jul 26, 2016

    IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Monday’s Ironwood Township Board of Trustees meeting began with the addition of Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso’s resignation to the meeting agenda. Following a closed session to discuss personnel issues, the board accepted Olson-DeRosso’s resignation, effective Aug. 22. In addition to accepting the resignation, the board also voted to ask the Michigan State Police to begin an investigation in order to “assist (the township) in resolving discrepancies in the audit that the we could not resolve ourselves,” according t...

  • Wakefield cleans up from storm

    Tom Stankard|Jul 26, 2016

    WAKEFIELD-Following the thunderstorm that swept through Wakefield two weeks ago, city officials and the community joined forces to recover. As a result of the strong straight-line winds during the storm, several properties were damaged and lost power. City manager Richard Brackney said residents and city employees responded "tremendously" in the wake of the storm to begin cleaning up uprooted trees and debris. "It was just the community being a community," he said. "Lots of volunteers came out...

  • Illinois high school cross country team trains in Hurley

    Tom Stankard|Jul 26, 2016

    HURLEY - The Hoffman Estates (Ill.) High School cross country team are training in Hurley this week. For the past 10 years, assistant coach Matthew Ihms said the team has traveled from northwestern suburbs of Illinois to Wisconsin to train during the summer. In 1970s, head coach Kirk Macnider's father participated in the Paavo Nurmi Marathon and won. Macnider said his father inspired him to bring his cross country team to Hurley. Sixteen team members made the trip this year. The team consists...