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Articles from the July 30, 2022 edition


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  • Man rides 685 miles of Iron Belle Trail

    Jul 30, 2022

    By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Eleven days, 685 miles. All on a bicycle. All on the Iron Belle Trail. That summed up the bulk of Tomas Quinones' vacation back to his home state of Michigan this month. He started at Belle Isle in Detroit on July 16 and rolled across the bridge across the Montreal River on Wednesday morning. If your counting, that's 12 days, but the software engineer from Portland, Oregon, took the second day off as he visited his parents in Grand Blanc...

  • Gogebic County board closes fairground buildings

    Jul 30, 2022

    By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Following a study of the county fairgrounds by U.P. Engineers and Architects, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners decided to prohibit the use of the grandstand and poultry and exhibition buildings unless authorized by a structural engineer. The county contracted the Houghton-based architecture firm to perform a buildings study earlier this year. The study recommended against further use of the fairgrounds’ poultry barn. It said that the building should be repaired in “great detail” o...

  • Edwin 'Ed' Anderson

    Jul 30, 2022

    WOODBURY, Minn. - Edwin "Ed" Anderson, age 73, of Woodbury, passed away unexpectedly on July 26, 2022. He was preceded in death by parents, Alan and Frances. He is survived by his sister, Sandra "Sandy" Anderson; children, Michael, Mark and Kathryn; and extended family and friends. Ed graduated from St. Ambrose High School in Ironwood, Michigan, with the class of 1967. A memorial service will be held Thursday, Aug. 4, at 6 p.m., with a gathering of family and friends starting at 4 p.m. at the...

  • Community Calendar

    Jul 30, 2022

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, July 30 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Emberlight Festival Performance Infusion — Fit to be Tied, 1 p.m., Miners Memorial Heritage Park, Ironwood. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. IRON COUNTY  HERITAGE FESTIVAL Hurley Education Found...