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Articles from the July 31, 2020 edition


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  • GOISD to provide funds for pandemic prevention efforts

    Jul 31, 2020

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BERGLAND — The six members of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District will be receiving funds for supplies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 this fall after the GOISD board voted Wednesday to provide $172,000 in financial assistance. “The members of the GOISD Board of Education recognize that each of our local districts will be facing additional costs related to the requirements of reopening under the Michigan Return to School Roadmap. As a result, the GOISD Board of Education met...

  • Wakefield-Marenisco builds press box

    Jul 31, 2020

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A new press box is nearing completion on the south side of the athletic field next to Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School. "It's looking pretty nice," said Superintendent Jason Gustafson at last week's meeting of the Board of Education. He urged board members to check out the progress. Gustafson informed the Daily Globe this week that he expects the project to be done before the new school year starts on Aug. 25. That will be just in time for the...

  • Whitmer closes bars in Michigan

    Jul 31, 2020

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in their states, the governors in Michigan and Wisconsin have brought back measures from earlier this year designed to halt the spread of the coronavirus. In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a pair of executive orders Wednesday that again limits the size of gatherings to 10 people and closes bars to indoor service — including in the Upper Peninsula and other parts of the state’s Region 8. The order takes effect starting today. “As w...

  • Community Calendar

    Jul 31, 2020

    mmunity news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, July 31 Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, 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, Aug. 1 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis...

  • James Alvin Bertram

    Jul 31, 2020

    NEW IPSICH, N.H. - James Alvin Bertram, 92, of New Ipswich, passed from this life to eternity on Sunday, July 26, 2020, after a brief period of failing health. Born in Bethesda, Kentucky, on Nov. 11, 1927, to Leslie and Cora (Lester) Bertram, James attended local schools. His mother passed away when he was 7 years old, and after some time he lived with his older sister Eva and her husband. He called Eva his second mother. He married Elma Suvanto on July 26, 1950, in Waukegan, Illinois. James pas...