Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - A small crowd gathered at the Mercer Community Center Thursday to hear Mercer resident Shari Younger tell her experience behind "bars" as she biked across the country over the course of two years. Younger biked a total of 3,450 miles over 46 days in 1997 and 1998, first traveling from Stevens Point, Wis., to Bar Harbor, Maine and then from Seattle to Stevens Point. She said the audience was likely broken down into three groups; her fr...
Friday, July 28 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, July 29 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 9... Full story
WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Family and friends are invited to attend the graveside service for Wanda Lou (Coonts) Ringsmuth, to be held Friday, Aug. 4, at 1 p.m., at Lakeside Cemetery in Wakefield. The Rev. Ted Trudgeon, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Wakefield, will officiate. Wanda passed away on Jan. 3, 2017, in King, Wis. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Jerald Rocco, owner and manager of Lakeside Memorial Chapel Inc., in Wakefield.... Full story
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT news@yourdailyglobe MERCER - Former Wisconsin Governor Martin J. Schreiber gave a presentation at the Mercer Community Center on Wednesday afternoon. Schreiber "is one of the nations leading crusaders for Alzheimer's caregivers," said Mercer Public Library Director Teresa Schmidt. Recently, the former governor published a book along with co-author Cathy Breitenbucher called "My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver." The book is a...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — Two Ontonagon families filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan claiming that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services violates the second amendment in their prohibition on the bearing of firearms for qualified Michigan residents who wish to be foster or adoptive parents. William and Jill Johnson and Brian and Naomi Mason specifically name Nick Lyon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in the suit. Johnson and Mason notes t...